azraelle

how could you start with a fish and end up with a human?

Ever heard of "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"?

Basically it means that if you observe a baby from fertilized egg to maturity, it goes through stages whereby, microscopically, you cannot tell it apart from a fish, then a reptile, then a bird, etc. Genetically, you can, but even there, ~95% of the DNA is the same as your average fish.

I believe God works with natural principles. There are too many coincidences pointing toward some form of evolution for me not to believe that evolution is a natural principle. So why couldn't God have created life by Directed Evolution??

What killed the dinosaurs? The Great Flood.

Noah was COMMANDED by God to take at least one breeding pair of every species of land animal then in existence onto the ark. Since the plans for the ark were also drawn up by God, I can't go along with this, Dr. Shoe. If dinosaurs were in existence at the time of Noah, then the ark would have been built big enough to accomodate them, since God is no respecter of persons, and all creatures are the same in His eyes. I can't imagine Noah second-guessing God about dinosaurs, or unicorns either, for that matter.

LIONS

You're still comparing apples and oranges, Laurie. Within a given species, such as humanity, there is an incredibly large "window" of possibilities for adaptation within the lifespan of individual members of the species to an equally large number of possible environmental differences. But for a change in the adaptability of the entire species as a whole to take place (in other words, to pass on the physical or mental adaptations your body has made to it's adopted environment in order to survive or make life less stressful, to your children, at birth) requires a genetic mutation (or more practically, a whole slew of interrelated mutations) to occur. Or for existing mutations to be selected out by survival of the majority of the population during some major catastrophe. Natural selection doesn't occur without life-threatening, extinction-oriented environmental stress. I can't see man "evolving" during the times of peace that you allude to--there just isn't enough extinction-oriented stress.

Methyl-Ethyl-Ketone (MEK) works well. 'Course it also takes part of the plastic insole with it.!

from the www.designershoes.com website referenced above:

Footwear Facts and Quotes

If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.

-Sue Grafton

Shoes That Hurt:

Eight out of 10 women polled by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons said their shoes were painful.

Nine out of 10 women wear shoes that are too small, according to the same survey.

Women's Feet are Becoming Larger:

In 1986, 12% of American women had shoe sizes 9.5 and higher. In 1994, that number increased to 17%. In 1998, 30.4% of all women's shoes sold were size 9 and above.

A sample survey showed that 60% of women's feet increased in shoe size since age 20.

You can not put the same shoe on every foot.

-Publilius Syrus, Maxim 593

The average increase in the protrusion of a woman's buttocks is 25% when she wears high heels. (Harper's Index)

If you know more facts or quotes, please send them to us!

their email address is "info@designershoes.com"

feckless

Nah, Real Women just want a Real Man, not just a masculine version of themselves. A high-heel wearing man (much less a man into other feminine acoutrements) doesn't fit the profile of a beer-swilling football-cheering, grubby T-shirt & jeans-wearing Real Man. It doesn't matter how loving, devoted, caring, or secure in his manhood masculine he might otherwise be.

Sorry for the rant, but most women won't even get to first base if they know you like wearing high heels--and they're the ones that rant about how much they value honesty in a relationship. It's like they only want SOME honesty!!

That's why I said "ordinance" which includes the knives and swords you mentioned as well. My oldest daughter (24) owns a stainless steel Mini-14 which I gave her, but her husband is much more into guns than she is, although she is the best shot I've ever met, and this includes the Army. I myself have trouble hitting a bottle at 10 feet! Her real passions are Chinese Martial Arts, and BLADES, of which she owns about a dozen, from Japanese Katanas to Bowie Knives to "Arkansas Toothpicks". She even owns a Kris (wavy ritual dagger from Indonesia). She likes knowing that she could use them if the need arose. Which is apparently one of the things that attracted her husband to her.

Why don't you point him towards this website b4 your next attempt so he doesn't think you are secretly teasing him?

I don't think 5" stilletos would be considered sexy or a turn-on by most North American boys under 17. Wierd, maybe, but not sexy. Fashion tastes change rather drastically as they get into their senior teen years, at least that is what I have observed with myself, as well as observing my two teenage sons, ages 14 and 17, respectively.

Slapper.....I like the term Isaac Asimov coined in his futuristic spy novel Friday: SLITCH. Might even be applied to you, Francis, since the in thing these days, at least among gurls, is to label their boyfriend as their "bitch".

the French--Chicken!

Now we know where all your money goes. Another fetish besides heels?? Is this a wish list or do you own any of the aforementioned ordinance?

Nice to hear from you again Arno. Also nice to hear from someone who offers a breath of fresh air, so to speak. Tallswede and I were starting to feel very much in the minority--him with his improved back, me with my improved knee and ankles.

Killashandra

I would like to know what fragrances and/or perfume or cologne brands everyone (girls and guys alike) find attractive, and if sensitvity to certain perfumes provokes an extreme reaction (such as headache, nausea, hives, etc.). Also if there are any heel wearers, guys especially, since it is an assumed skill for most girls(!), who can, or even pride themselves in being able to, recognize a particular scent or brand, or for that matter can often identify the individual spices used in a particular food dish by scent and/or taste alone.

The only comics I read anymore are Dilbert and Garfield. But if they were to syndicate a comicstrip for Daria from Nickelodian, I'd probably read that too.

Doing drugs and heels is like going to war wearing a red coat and the barrel of your rifle plugged with mud.

As with most mutations, there are damn few of them in the human population, which is the only way the human brain could "evolve". Based on my 50 years of observing human behavior, the best I can come up with is that the vast majority of human brains are slowly retrogressing (the exact opposite of evolving). But then I'm a cynic. So I don't belong in this discussion, shutting up now, ma'am.

Obviously your parents never laid a belt (or worse) to your bare butt for what they considered wrongful behavior. Or needled you with derogatory or humiliating remarks or treatment in order to exorcise from you your unmasculine behavior. If you had, you would go out of your way to avoid other such confrontations. If your rose-colored glasses tell you that such parental behavior is a thing of the past in our enlightened era, you have never met a redneck. Or a homophobe. To either of these types, and a host of other religious bigots, ANY kind of feminine behavior, thought, or desire in a son is a sure sign that they are "going gay", and they go out of their way to beat it out of them using any and all means available.

I have often wondered why feminine behavior in a guy is equated to a preference for anal intercourse by most of society, when it is typically held in low esteem by the most feminine individuals in the world, e.g. women!?

I figured this out when I first went to the site, and concluded that I had about 60% more in common with autism than normal human beings. Since all of my kids have been diagnosed with varying degrees of ADD/OCD, as well as myself, and knowing there to be some sort of a link based on P.E.T. scan research done in the last decade, this came as no surprise!! Don't know what others were wrangling about though. It might make for some interesting research to find out if there is a connection between hi-heel wearing (or greater sensitivity to things traditionally known as "feminine") and low-scale autism.

When I was a kid chewing gum came in packages of 5 sticks for a Nickel (5 cents); eventually the price rose to a Quarter (25 cents). Then marketing became big business and they ditched the 5-pack and came out with the 10-pack for 50 cents. About 2-3 years later they knocked it down to an 8-pack, and left the price at 50 cents. Same thing with cookies, candy, etc.--same package size, 1.5 ounces less. With fuel prices at $2.30/gallon for premium gas in Las Vegas, Nevada (second-highest gasoline taxed state in the US), I have no doubt that some marketing genius working for Big Oil will soon come up with a plan to market it by the Liter (we spell it a little differently here), and then use that little ploy to gouge the American Consumer even more by upping the pump price to $1.15/Liter, instead of the ~$1.05 that it should be, since the American Consumers, being dumber than chickens, can't divide by decimals without a calculator anyway, and therefore won't know the difference (American newspapers are written at the Third Grade level, except the New York Times, which is written somewhere around the Seventh Grade level). Therefore, everything now marketed by the gallon will now be marketed by what will be promoted as the same as a half gallon, e.g. a Liter. That's why I don't want to switch more than anything else--I positively detest giving any more of my hard-earned cash to Corporate America than I absolutely have to!! :x

Welcome, mk4625, your interests parallel my own, near same age, etc. except I don't mind Teva toe-loop sandals, and my tastes in boots are somewhat more "conservative?". Keep posting.

Noticed that too, have you??

Micha wrote: @Azraelle: I'm just imagining that the Americans had to give up their beloved everlasting Dollar. Giggling to coma

As little as I see of the "everlasting dollar", 'twouldn't bother me in the least!!

Perhaps trade it in for the Mexican Peso, or better yet, the former Italian Lira!!