Don Edwards

There are also several instances of "ring species." These happen when there's an obstacle to a species' spread that individuals can't cross, but can go around. Said obstacle being quite large, as compared to the distance individuals travel. So they spread around it in both directions, over multiple generations, with slight genetic drift... and when they finally meet again on the far side of the obstacle, the new neighbors can't interbreed. So variety A can cross with variety B, who can mate with variety C, and so on... but A and P, who are next-door neighbors, can't.
(Another puzzle of "where and how do you draw a species line?". Along with the notion that each individual is the same species as their own mother, but if you go some number of generations back then maybe they aren't the same species....)
There are some specimens from north-central Asia that carry the DNA of H.Sapiens Sapiens, H.Sapiens Neanderthalensis, H.Sapiens Denisova, and... um... those other H.Sapiens. Not Heidelbergensis. The ones we know absolutely nothing about except these odd traces of DNA in these specific specimens.

 
Edward & Sarah are, this far, the only regulars we have seen tired and grumpy.  
This my indicate that everyone else is not fully human. 
 

We always called it 'Bats in the Belfry'.

Everyone is weird. Details vary.

Heh. I did this in '22 on another forum...

♩♩♫♩♬♪♫
Don’t take your warmth away from me
Don’t you leave my arms all shivery
‘Cause I wish the night’s not through
And waking up is hard to do.

Remember when you held me tight
Warm blankets wrapped all through the night
So sound asleep the whole night through
And waking up is hard to do.

They say that waking up is hard to do
Now I know, I know that it’s true
Don’t say that this is the end
Instead of waking up I wish that I could fall asleep again

I beg of you, don’t make me glower
Can’t we stretch the night just one more hour?
Come on bed, I’ll stay with you
‘Cause waking up is hard to do.

(original gets repetitive after that)

(That's why I picked such a distant-past example.)

well, milking a marshmallow would probably be easier on the hands than milking an almond.

Forecast here is 75⁰F today, 58 tonight.
And I just had a leaky toilet fixed a few days ago, and last night the other one sprung the same sort of leak. Only more so, and since I was already asleep it ran for longer. I'll be spending a big chunk of the day hauling things out of the basement and setting them out to dry.

I think that's more of a "stop hating yourself over it" bonk.

Hope will fail in her intent. The magic will help Cinderted with the chores, but they'll use that to get more done rather than to get some time to themself or some rest.

A pedestal can be as confining as any other small space.

*ROAR snarl growl rowr*
...oh, sorry, make that...
pacman -syu ROAR snarl growl rowr

You guys are reminding me why I'm a snowbird...
(Kinda odd that snowbirds move away from snow, while snowbunnies flock to it...)

"Your diet is very simple. If it tastes good, spit it out."

 
Hm... (Note: it's been many years since I've played MtG, so I may not get all of the terminology right.)
Distracting Squirrel. Mana cost, 2 green.
0 damage, 1 health.
Tap (interrupt): 1 spell fails to affect this Squirrel.
Tap (interrupt): tap one other creature. If that creature is in combat, remove it from combat.
2 green: this Squirrel gains +1 health (edit:) until end of turn

Somebody needs to remind the Russian leadership that while it's ok to eat steak when there's a chicken in every pot, keep eating steak while your people have nothing and pretty soon you start to look like a chicken.

I consume very little mainstream media, but today on the way home from shopping I turned on the radio.
Supporters of a certain candidate (details omitted because they don't matter) compared an opposing candidate to a wolf
I must protest.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the wolf is chasing them for the rabbit's own good.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the rabbit is better off for having been eaten.
A wolf never tells the rabbit how much better it is to be eaten by a wolf rather than a mountain lion.
Clearly, a wolf is morally superior to  the typical politician.

I was wondering why you would be concerned about the weather underground, then I remembered that you are a badger.

I consume very little mainstream media, but today on the way home from shopping I turned on the radio.
Supporters of a certain candidate (details omitted because they don't matter) compared an opposing candidate to a wolf
I must protest.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the wolf is chasing them for the rabbit's own good.
A wolf never tells the rabbit that the rabbit is better off for having been eaten.
A wolf never tells the rabbit how much better it is to be eaten by a wolf rather than a mountain lion.
Clearly, a wolf is morally superior to  the typical politician.

I was wondering how they became virginal in the first place. Then I decided they were probably baptized in extra virgin olive oil, which presumably has virginity to spare.

I think the flaw is that any system of government involves people. Being one myself, I think I see issues with this.

You don't need to resort to anything as primitive as a pile of dirt. There is a Swiss company that creates vehicular decoys to order. Ukraine bought dozens of them made to look like a HIMARS. So the Russians ended up expending a lot of very expensive missiles on some quite cheap decoys, which is optimal only in a universe where you can convince Putin that they were actual HIMARS. And might help explain the Russian claim that they had destroyed more HIMARS systems than Ukraine had actually received.

...yeah. I've done both image editing and audio editing on a slow computer with not enough memory. It sucks. When your compressed image file is four times the size of your RAM...

Barring any last-minute major disaster today, I'm going home! I'll be headed hone sometime after this afternoon. Still lots to do, lie dealing with doubled/blurry vision. Squeal like a pig, boy.
Ahem.
Any case, I'm going to order lunch, see if it comes, see if SHE brings something, and take my chances. Talk to you once I get home and feel better.

And it's kind of in the nature of "exploratory" that you may find things you didn't anticipate.
If the stuff that was supposed to be holding the patella in place wasn't actually working, but nothing had happened to cause it to be out of place when the doctors looked - then opening things up for an exploratory surgery could easily allow it to go cottywompus.