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Adam Funk
Apr 5, 2012, 10:02:58 AM4/5/12
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According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
"The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
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removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
"The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
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The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency.
Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at
the same time? [Gerald Ford, 1978]
Peter Duncanson (BrE)
Apr 5, 2012, 10:34:39 AM4/5/12
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On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:02:58 +0100, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com>
wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
>http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
<chuckle>
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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
>http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)
Steve Hayes
Apr 5, 2012, 1:02:04 PM4/5/12
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> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
Well at least they weren't supine.
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António Marques
Apr 5, 2012, 1:07:34 PM4/5/12
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I find this offensive.
David DeLaney
Apr 5, 2012, 1:56:17 PM4/5/12
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=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?= <anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>I find this offensive.
The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
are you speaking where that's the case?
Dave
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>I find this offensive.
The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
are you speaking where that's the case?
Dave
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António Marques
Apr 5, 2012, 1:43:25 PM4/5/12
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David DeLaney wrote (05-04-2012 18:56):
> =?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=<anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>> I find this offensive.
>
> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>
> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
> are you speaking where that's the case?
It's =?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?= for you.
> =?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=<anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>> I find this offensive.
>
> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>
> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
> are you speaking where that's the case?
Adam Funk
Apr 5, 2012, 4:01:17 PM4/5/12
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On 2012-04-05, David DeLaney wrote:
>=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?= <anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>>I find this offensive.
>
> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>
> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
> are you speaking where that's the case?
Maybe you need a slrn upgrade?
>=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?= <anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>>I find this offensive.
>
> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>
> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
> are you speaking where that's the case?
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Adam Funk
Apr 5, 2012, 4:01:48 PM4/5/12
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On 2012-04-05, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:02:58 +0100, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
>> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
> Well at least they weren't supine.
or prostate
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:02:58 +0100, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
>> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
> Well at least they weren't supine.
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Mike L
Apr 5, 2012, 6:40:12 PM4/5/12
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Evil-Lyn The Rasputin of West View
Apr 5, 2012, 9:41:23 PM4/5/12
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Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2012-04-05, David DeLaney wrote:
>
>> =?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=<anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>>> I find this offensive.
>>
>> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>>
>> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
>> are you speaking where that's the case?
>
> Maybe you need a slrn upgrade?
I need a reason to be interested.
> On 2012-04-05, David DeLaney wrote:
>
>> =?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==?=<anton...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>>> I find this offensive.
>>
>> The article was actually rather defensive, I think.
>>
>> And ?B?QW50w7NuaW8gTWFycXVlcw==? _isn't_ offensive? What brand of English
>> are you speaking where that's the case?
>
> Maybe you need a slrn upgrade?
E-L T R o W V
Evil-Lyn The Rasputin of West View
Apr 5, 2012, 9:42:05 PM4/5/12
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Adam Funk wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
Kill that Templar!!
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
Evil-Lyn The Rasputin of West View
Apr 5, 2012, 9:48:56 PM4/5/12
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Adam Funk wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell.
Kill the Templar!!
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell.
E-L T R o V W
scott mccallum
Apr 6, 2012, 1:03:37 AM4/6/12
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On Apr 6, 1:02 am, Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
> http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on...
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
Well, I see this as being entirely complementary to what happens when
you strip down a group of people, and put them by a pool in some
tourist trap on banana lounges and feed them on daiquiris. They most
certainly do regress and the rapid constriction and expansion of their
blowholes (akay cakeholes) has been confirmed by anthropologists. They
will no longer be able to obey simple instructions by staff, and later
police, such as "Shut the fuck up", "Put your clothes on", Give that
women her top back", "Stop bombing all the water out of the pool",
"Vomit in the toilets, not the pool", "We don't swim in your toilet,
please don't piss in our pool", and "If you don't wake up and go
inside you big red-arsed buffoon, you will get heat-stroke.
Evil-Lyn The Rasputin of West View
Apr 6, 2012, 2:52:36 AM4/6/12
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people to our test will step forward and outright allow ourselves to be
tested on!!
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"Kill those Templars!!"
Charles Bishop
Apr 9, 2012, 10:42:21 PM4/9/12
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In article <i9l059x...@news.ducksburg.com>, Adam Funk
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charles
<a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
>http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
"If you pull all four legs off of a frog/cricket it becomes deaf."
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
>http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on-land,1896/
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charles
R H Draney
Apr 9, 2012, 11:04:10 PM4/9/12
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Charles Bishop filted:
The dolphin thing is a bit closer to this comparison of human and penguin
intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
intelligence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Dr. HotSalt
Apr 10, 2012, 3:10:35 AM4/10/12
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On Apr 9, 7:42 pm, ctbis...@earthlink.net (Charles Bishop) wrote:
> In article <i9l059xu5s....@news.ducksburg.com>, Adam Funk
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Dr. HotSalt
> In article <i9l059xu5s....@news.ducksburg.com>, Adam Funk
>
> <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> > According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> > removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> > test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> > "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> > gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> > non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> > expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> > and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
> >http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-dolphins-not-so-intelligent-on...
> <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> > According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> > removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> > test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
>
> > "The dolphins were incapable of recognizing and repeating simple
> > gestures," said study co-author Dr. Scott Lindell. "Their
> > non-verbal communications were limited to a rapid constriction and
> > expansion of the blowhole, various incomprehensible fin motions,
> > and heavy tremors while they lay prone on the lab table."
>
>
> "If you pull all four legs off of a frog/cricket it becomes deaf."
Can't seem to find any four-legged crickkkkkkkk
> "If you pull all four legs off of a frog/cricket it becomes deaf."
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Dr. HotSalt
Adam Funk
Apr 10, 2012, 10:30:49 AM4/10/12
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On 2012-04-10, R H Draney wrote:
> The dolphin thing is a bit closer to this comparison of human and penguin
> intelligence:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
Whatever happened to the short & lab coat look?
> The dolphin thing is a bit closer to this comparison of human and penguin
> intelligence:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
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R H Draney
Apr 10, 2012, 4:02:51 PM4/10/12
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Adam Funk filted:
players....r
>
>On 2012-04-10, R H Draney wrote:
>
>> The dolphin thing is a bit closer to this comparison of human and penguin
>> intelligence:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
>
>
>Whatever happened to the short & lab coat look?
You must remember that in the clip shown, the scientists are also tennis
>On 2012-04-10, R H Draney wrote:
>
>> The dolphin thing is a bit closer to this comparison of human and penguin
>> intelligence:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjbwCS_KKnw
>
>
>Whatever happened to the short & lab coat look?
players....r
Tim Serpas
Apr 10, 2012, 7:40:29 PM4/10/12
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Adam Funk <a24...@ducksburg.com> wrote:
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
Take that you plankton massacring bastards!
> According to study researchers, a group of 25 bottlenose dolphins
> removed from their holding tanks failed 11 exercises designed to
> test their basic cognitive abilities and reasoning skills.
Wretch
ala
Apr 11, 2012, 9:11:55 PM4/11/12
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"Evil-Lyn The Rasputin of West View" <wichita...@REMOVETHISmsn.com>
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west view in ballston or some other west view
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