Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Kill-This-Thread Contest!

Well let's keep the class moving, however I should remind you that 75% of your final grade will be based on relevant contributions to our topics.

Surely you've all gotten "prune hands" when sitting in the bath for an extended period of time. This is what freshwater fish deal with all the time. They must shed water continuously to stay from inflating like a water baloon.

Conversely salt-water fish struggle against an outflowing osmotic gradient, and their system is adapted to trying to retain water.

Now that we've covered the two expected types of fish, can anyone name an example of a fish with the third type of of urinary system?

So, did anyone find out what was bothering that cat to begin with?

Sure seemed irritated.

She was offended by somebody taking her cream...

Poor kitty.



What kind of horrible person steals a cat's cream??

Ask Space Ranger - he dunnit!

More likely the cream went sour and rancid and someone threw it out.

Connie knows that. She is just using it as Casus Belli. Cats are evil, you know?

Now back to the fish that concentrate urea. They are an ancient species. The have no bones. Can anyone name an example? Bueller... Bueller?

Do you cat owners know if it's generally better to let a cat sulk or should to try to calm it down when these things happen.

I just melted when Queen Connie's feline orbs pleaded with me to give her some more imported cream....

hello soon to be dead thread ive missed you so.

There's too many pages to this thread to read. Can someone please summarize it all for me?

there's not much to summarize

SLK has just given me carte blanche to explore topics in this thread that I find especially relevant.

I will say that we've failed to deliver our first key metric of our strategic plan on page 7. We've also discussed such fascinating topics as ERISA and the possible reprecussions of Sarbanes-Oxley's options expensing requirement for Financial reporting on the future of high-technology industries in the US. This was a nice lead in to an exploration of my cheerleader fetish.

Currently the thread is exploring the dynamic and exciting topic of comparative urinary systems in three types of fish. Now an example of that third type of fish, another hint they have no bones but have an alternate skeletal material.

Shut up Tamper Lad.

I say this with love.

**Meow**

Can I play with this thread for a while BEFORE I kill it?

That's always fun!

**Purr**

Can Tamper Lad help it if he has a well-ordered and analytical way of expressing himself?

You may all now thank LAM for talking me into reactivating this...


ARRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!

DIE YOU BASTICH THREAD!!!!!

DIE, DIE, DIE!!!!!

(You have activated the Auto-reply feature of Abin's Computer, on your head lie the consequences!)

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*sigh* Boys.

Damn auto-activations...

I was temporarily swayed to the Dark Side by Tamper Lad, so i was mildly bonkers when i let you loose from your strait-jacket, Abin...

Now repeat after me: Threads are good, threads are good...it is the bastiches who must die...

But leave the "good" ones alone...

Boys activate automatically because every thirty seconds our pituitary glands sends a signal inducing an androgenic response. Ie a release of testosterone. This is why males think about sex constantly.

Strangely enough libido in females is also driven by testosterone. This makes no intuitive sense which is strangely apropos as females generally make no sense either. The setup in females is wonderfully baroque.


What is very unusual is that testosterone is is the chemical precursor to estrogen. The pituitary in females (humans at least) does not deliver a regular pulse of gonadotropic factors. Release of follicle stimulating hormone in females is controlled by a negative feedback loop tied to the level of estrogen. Estrogen levels stimulate the production of Lutenizing hormone which of course causes the follicle containing the ovum to rupture releasing the egg into the fallopian tube.

Oh Tamper Lad, you are such a wealth of information...How come you never got wealthy from it?

this thread isnt dead yet?

Nope, I actually have a handy rule to maintain the status quo. It works becuase I'm male of course.

When I first sit down at the computer, the first time I think about sex in that session, I do a quick check of this thread to make sure its alive.

If the thread needs attention I generally pull an interesting story that has to do with one of the past five posts to post.

so you have connected sex with this thread......

Sex never kills a thread...it only makes one want to get up and find the rest of the rope...