[Ians Daddy]

I'm curious if saliva has a lower freezing point. Could this be some sort of glycol ie antifreeze / coolant property in our juices?

Just a (ACHOOO!!!, mmmmmmm) thought.

[roberth]

Go get the beaker, mum. I'm gunna start spittin' and do my own experiment

[neilep]

I don't know why. but wifey disapproved of my collecting my fams saliva and boiling it, thought I'd make a cup of tea !!...I think we need Jay on this one for clarification.

'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[OmnipotentOne]

So watching some show I learned something which plagues my mind every wakeing moment.  And the absolutely worst part is, that if you have it, theres nothing you can do about it.  So imagine a worm, the width of a pencil, but twice as long. NOW imagine it inside you!!! 1 out of every 4 people has it inside them.  Ive wondered why my tummy rumbles.

Just thought I'd let you all know that!

To see a world in a grain of sand.

[neilep]

quote:Originally posted by OmnipotentOne

So watching some show I learned something which plagues my mind every wakeing moment.  And the absolutely worst part is, that if you have it, theres nothing you can do about it.  So imagine a worm, the width of a pencil, but twice as long. NOW imagine it inside you!!! 1 out of every 4 people has it inside them.  Ive wondered why my tummy rumbles.

Just thought I'd let you all know that!

To see a world in a grain of sand.

There was a programme recently  over here in the UK which followed the progress of a bloke who (for the sake of the programme) voluntarily ingested a worm orientated infected piece of meat and it followed the growth and eventual expellation of said worm from his 'exit hole'.....they induced the expellation by him taking some drug of some sort...I'm sure it was a tapeworm...and it was at least a couple of feet long, though he crapped it in segments...which was nice !!


'Men are the same as women...just inside out !'

[gsmollin]

I think it is important to remember that a female ferret will die, even if she does have sex.

But here's a really useless fact: An egg boiled for 5 minutes at 14,000 feet altitude is still slightly underdone.

[tweener]

Not so useless if you are camping at altitude and your eggs happen to be contaminated with some nasty bug of some sort.

----
John - The Eternal Pessimist.

[Broca]

I read today that if you "expel gas" for 6 years and 9 months you have released the amount gas that would equal a nuclear bomb.  Who figures that stuff out?

[PhirePhly]

quote:Originally posted by Supercryptid

A female ferret will die if it doesn't have sex? That doesn't make much sense. What would cause that, a heart attack or something?

It's not that they die if they don't have sex.  It's that they die if they don't conceive.

The ferret equivalent of what women go through every month causes enough blood loss that they die from aplastic aneamia (sp?).

My wife (my first wife, the "practice" wife) and I used to keep ferrets and that's the explanation we got from the breeder who sold us our first (neutered) female ferret.

They are, by the way, lovely pets that have been domesticated longer than have cats.  If you can imagine, roughly, a cat that never grows out of kittenhood, that's a ferret.  They also tolerate being caged, indeed, they need a place to retreat to, so they make wonderful pets for working stiffs who can't have a pet running loose all day and don't have time to spend on walkies.  They sleep 16 hours a day and bond very closely to humans.

The only real downside is that every ferret will bite you once.  They seem to learn how hard "play" biting is by to bite too hard and wait for their playmate to bite back (or swat).  That's a little hard on ferret owners who won't "bite back" so to speak as the little things never really learn the limits.



Thanks,
 
L. Lisov