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If I recently used something I can usualy remember where it is. If I haven't used it in a few months then I dump things that I am not looking for on the floor. When everything except the thing I was looking for is on the floor I an happy with myself. Eventualy I trip over the pile of things on the floor so I pick it up and shove everything in the closet. My idea of cleaning up/organizing is basicaly confining the mess to a small area (usualy the closset because I can close the door).

I hate that too. Why can't they do what the amusement parks do and post a sign like "estimated wait time: 1hr 45 min". At least you would know what you are in for. Another medical one is "This will only hurt a little." No one has ever said that to me but I hear that the it is code for, "This will hurt like hell. Try not to wet your pants."

I'm a neat freak's worst nightmare. Nothing is ever in it's place. Nothing even has a place. I just put things wherever I feel like putting them. I can't imagine living with someone who is obsesively neat. I think we would drive each other insane. Wow, loaded questions!

Great chapter! I finaly found a moment to post something about it (It's Saturday). The makeover was an interesting developement. It seems like a twist on an old theme: straight guy gets to make over a gay guy. Now how to get Eric to do a guy?.......hmmmm........we could try a certain alcoholic Mexican love potion. As for there being cliff hangers, HELL YEAH. CJ writes clifhangers so often I think most of us are desensatized to the not so evil ones. The ones we notice are more like extra-evil-goat-cliffhangers on steroids. I think they deserve their own name. Something like 'goat-hangers'. That's partly to distinguish then from regular cliffhanger and partly because of people's reactions to them.

Happy Easter! I love having a day dedicated to celebrating life and eating eggs.

Happy Holi! That sounds like so much fun. I wish I had something like that in my culture.

Happy Birthday!

That one sounds weird to but I think it may have a little more credability. I think it came from people with horses. Horses usualy do not lay down unless they are sick, hurt, or dead. So when you put a horse down it actualy falls down. There is also an expression that a horse is down. In this case "down" meens laying down sick. On the lighter side, there are many euphamisms for defecating and urinating. I think the worst is, "I have to powder my nose." I think someone is powdering the wrong end.

Here is the one I hate the most: "We're going to put our pet to sleep." I like sleep. I'm quite sure I would not like being poisoned/shot/drowned/etc. I hate the way people can't own up to what they are doing. If you truly believe you are putting the creature out of its misery why not admit to it? Besides, it might confuse your kids. ie. The dog got put to sleep and now he is dead and buried in the yard... and now mom and dad are telling me to quit playing and go to sleep!

I love this chapter! I think there is no reason to get any more into Adam's thoughts. He is not a major character. The only thing that seems a little different in this chapter is that it does not seem to exploit all the tense moments to full capacity. It moved quite fast. Still, a dead body, nuclear weapons, and a rock band is quite a combination. Now I want to know what was in the photos. Maybe someone who had alegedly passed out. I think this counts as a clifhanger. The goat strikes again!

That was great. The animals seem to show up quite frequently in this story. What is Eric going to capture next? Australia does have the largest bats in the world. I'm sure he was wishing he had three hands. Great chapter

Happy Birthday! Have a great year!

Happy Birthday! I hope you had a good one.

Have a great birthday and a wonderful year!

Happy Birthday! Have a good one.

The last time I went somewhere in costume was in September. A TV show was filming its Halloween episode and they needed several hundred people in costume. I went as a zombie. It was partly an excuse to wear cloths that were so worn out that there were holes and stains everywhere. I was comfortable. The I painted on some bruises and dark circles. It was lots of fun. I stood out even among the people in costume. I think mine was one of the creepiest. It was all fun until I arived at home at 3am looking like a dead/rotting person. I also go to some rather public pajama parties. Its not exactly a costume party but it does turn some heads when a group of people walk down the street in in sleep wear. I guess I don't mind being stared at as long as I know why people are staring. As for going completely naked, it's not my thing. I don't like seeing myself undressed so I keep some kind of cloths on, much to the disgust of my nudist friends.

Enough kangaroos? but they are sooooo cute! Can you send me one? Quick! someone write a cliffhanger! People are starting to halucinate!

Another great chapter by our favorite goat! Is Vladamire going to run of with a lot of money and start a kangaroo farm? I hope so.

I'm a late-comer this time thanks to a recent increace in workload at my job. I'm still loving the story though. I have to say, I'm not suspicious of Vlad at all. He seems like a fun loving guy in a way. The complete lack of scrupels about making weapons of mass destruction makes him an interesting character but no likely a special agent type. Its pretty easy to forget about lump, but I'm surprised that no one found it odd that Jerry seems to have forgotten about him. I guess that will get sorted out in a few days.

Those are some interesting thoughts. I think the best solution to the problem is to take the glamor away. If the kid shot someone and was without delay locked up in a mental institution never to be seen again it might take some of the hero status away. I think any punishment that would could be viewed as grewsome would generate sympathy. Sadly, I must vote no on the giant blender (wood chipper?) idea. The problem is that the sooter is seen as having more power than he ever had. This is atractive to kids. Who wouldn't like the idea of terrorizing the entire school and becoming a celebrity in the process? As for the argument about a kid's emotions being unstable, I disagree. While they may react more emotionaly there is still such a thing as self control. I hated many of my classmates when I was in school. I would have enjoyed watching them get shot at. What kept me from stealing my dad's shot gun and blowing thier cute little heads off? I knew I would get in trouble. If someone is unable to understand that shooting the other kids will not lead to anything good there is probably a mental problem. If someone is aware of the consequences and still kills someone, he is a psycopathic murderer and should be kept away from the rest of us. I don't really care what happens to the kid as long as he is kept far away from me.

Thanks for the explanations. I never thought about the comparative lengths of the two cromosomes. If Y is getting shorter does that mean we are getting more androgenous as a species? Maybe the guy genes are just getting better organized. As for men actualy carrying children I heard that it might be possible. There have been a few cases where a child grew outside its mother's uterus and was delivered by c-section. In theory the organ is not nescesary but with out it the risk of internal bleading is much higher making the process to dangerous to try. I would be curious to see how the male body would handel that but I would not wish internal bleading/penis delivery on anyone.

Fascinating topic! Stem cell research is definetly a tricky issue but the technology is amazing. There is one interesting point that no one seems to have explained or explored. In the case of 2 females having a child the child would have to be a female. XX form one parent and XX from the other can only recombine to give the child 2 X chromosomes. In the case of 1 male and 1 female having a child you start with XX (mom) and XY (dad). The child can get either XX (girl) or XY (boy). In the case of 2 males having a child you start with XY and XY. In theory you could get three outcomes from the recombinations XX (girl) XY(boy) and YY(?) What would a YY be? X seems to be some kind of default. What happens when you have no X's at all? Would such a creature be able to live? What would it be like if it did survive? I have never heard an explanation for this but maybe its out there.

I loved this chapter (now that I finaly have the time to read it.) The coments about Vlad are great. His will will be short but full of 'roos. I don't mean to be a pest but there was a little typo in the 3rd to last paragraph. "...stopped to think for a mew moments..."

Great chapter! (and the last two) I didn't realy think of this one as a cliffhanger. I think you have desensatized me. :wacko:

Happy 21th Birthday! Don't stress about the drinks. You have plenty of time to drink. After all, there's no upper age limit.