I am reasonably certain, but can't be arsed to confirm, that the plural form of 'platypus' is 'platypodes'. At any rate, surely 'platypi' is right out.
According to Britannica, it's "platypuses." As per the Australian Platypus Conservancy, the Greek derivation should denote "platypodes" as the plural, but the word never caught on.
Monotreme comes from the taxonomic order Monotrema, and yes, the animals in that order are the only extant mammals that lay eggs. The science geeks think they diverged from the other mammalian line roughly 200 million years ago.
Indiana is worse than Kentucky? I mean it sucks but are they sure? Y'all know Andy won't be governor much longer, right? And that our state lege is big jealous of all the crazy Tennessee is having?
Your daily stupid Russian orc content: an attempt to use a machine gun thatβs been mounted on a truck but was made for a helicopter, that can counteractβ¦well, what you see here. Bonus: watch the βinstructorβ burn his hand on the barrel at the end!
If Tennessee is No.1 on the list, why is it an article I read a few weeks back detailing the exodus of retirees from Florida named Tennessee as one of the top states to retire, mainly for it cheap taxation and housing costs.? Mind you I did not research the author or who paid for the article so it there may have been biased. I once read years back that Tennessee also has the most welfare type people .
Not ready to move on past TABS until I've had more coffee, but wanted to comment on Senator Marsha Blackburn's campaign commercial in which she promises that she'll protect Tennessee ("We're #1!") from evil communist China by crushing fortune cookies next to a bottle of Kikkoman Soy Sauce and finishing up with an image of the Pan-Asian Friendship Cat one sees in every Asian restaurant in America.
Trouble is, fortune cookies were invented in America, so she's crushing AMERICAN stuff, not Chinese stuff, and Kikkoman is a Japanese brand, and the Pan-Asian Friendship Cat is also Japanese, so there was absolutely NOTHING that was Chinese in the shot except everything she bought to furnish her kitchen.
Anyway, thanks Marsha, for giving us the best metaphor for Republicanism since the reflecting swamp on the D.C. Mall.
Fuck Lindsey Graham. Sam Neill also just died, at 78, and I liked him a lot better. But you know what he would tell you, Lindsey. βYOU WONβT NEED EYES WHERE YOUβRE GOING, AH HAHAHAHAHAHA!β
Rating the states on inclusiveness of state laws and reproductive rights, in addition to the other factors, puts a thumb on the scale, somewhat. I would have been interested in how state ratings in the other categories correlate with states having laws that are not inclusive and impaired reproductive rights.
I liked his work a lot - and his quirky choices of roles. He starred in a film titled "The Dish" (and looking it up now, I guess it wasn't as oddball as I thought)
"The Dish is a 2000 Australian historical comedy-drama film that tells the story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of humanity's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. It was the top-grossing Australian film in 2000."
"New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for βJurassic Parkβ and βThe Piano,β dies at 78, his family says"
Ended up having lunch Saturday in a MAGA bar in a MAGA town. It's a long story, but we incurred a very long detour on narrow, winding, country roads and got hungry and looked on the map for someplace to eat and there was this place 1/2 mile off the road so I told driving friend to take this turn there now and there we were on a thin strip of a speed bump of a one-block town with about five businesses lined up on the street, one of which was our place, the rest of which looked like they'd been closed since the Eisenhower years. There seemed to be some event in town - a celebration of its founding, I later gathered - so a "fair" had been set up across the street which was more a garage sale with some American flag bunting on a couple of the 4-5 tables set up on the grass and no more than half a dozen people, all vendors.
We got out of the intense July heat and into the restaurant, or rather bar, but there was nothing else, so.
Place was nearly empty, but we definitely got stares when our odd group walked in: me, my wife from France, a guy from Peru, a woman from Taiwan. FOX News on the TV was rabbiting on and on about Charlie Kirk. Three people were at the bar, one of whom was wearing an "I NEED JESUS" t-shirt. One table was occupied, also staring. We clarified to the young guy behind that bar that we'd like something to eat. He reminded me a lot of young Dennis Weaver as the nervous "night man" motel clerk in "Touch of Evil," but was welcoming. The only other employee, working in a tiny open kitchen next to the bar, seemed to be the chef, a guy with a don't-fuck-with-me face who radiated "I've been through some shit " vibes - almost certainly an ex-con, and probably recently from the looks of things. We sat at a table. People kept drifting into and out of the bar, glancing at us as they walked in. In the corner, a young woman who already seemed middle-aged sat next to a table piled with baked goods: cherry pies, "Blueberry Coble," and chocolate-chip cookies, all wrapped in plastic with stickers that said things like "MADE WITH LOVE."
We ordered. Dennis Weaver behaved like no one else had ever ordered food before, but sure enough food came out a few minutes later, brought to the table by Chef Hatchetface, who immediately turned into the nicest guy, wishing us a good meal and telling us to let him know if we needed anything. A few more people wandered in like they were just seeing if anything was happening, and what was happening was apparently us and "Blueberry Coble." The conversation seemed to be town gossip, Jesus, and how some old married couple in town just lovvvved one another soooo much. After breakfast, we bought some cobbler and went over to check out the fair, still no one but vendors. Next to a house, an elderly woman in a chair seemed to be divesting herself of all of her remaining worldly possessions. An old tea kettle had a "75 cents" sticker on it, and a fine china plate made in England caught our eye. She wanted 25 cents for the kettle and said maybe the same for the plate. I asked if $2 would do for both, and she lit up like the Second Coming had just come to town.
Anyway, this is a long boring story about how people are complicated and simple at the same time, and about excellent country-style potatoes in a MAGA bar lost in the Sierra foothills hinterlands.
Hello friends. Here is your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/platypus-barrel-rolls
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/8165758a-5f79-494c-9186-8a00bcd193a8
Precious petite platypus goes SPLASH!
I think they are fascinating creatures. In my collection of plushies, I have two platypuses...because sometimes, you can't just choose one.
The babies are called βpugglesβ? Is platypus Latin for extra parts that were laying around?
It's about damn time platypusses ( platypi?) were featured!
Jimmy Durante, eat your heart out.
Hot-cha-cha-cha!
To see one swimming in the wild
Would be a stroke of luck
They look like the odd offspring
Of a beaver and a duck.
Merrily they roll alomg!
I am reasonably certain, but can't be arsed to confirm, that the plural form of 'platypus' is 'platypodes'. At any rate, surely 'platypi' is right out.
According to Britannica, it's "platypuses." As per the Australian Platypus Conservancy, the Greek derivation should denote "platypodes" as the plural, but the word never caught on.
https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-names-including-whats-the-plural-of-platypus/
the Australian Platypus Conservancy
Excuse me, thereβs an organization I have to go join NOW.
Thank you. Like 'octopus' then. When a borrowed word is fully adopted into English, it gets pluralized as such.
That hippo doesn't look right.
I woke up, saw the swimming platypus and thought 'That's me!!'
Swim swim swim!!
There are not enough platypii out here. Muchas gracias
A bit of trivia I remember is that platypuses are monotremes, though I can't recall 100% if that's related to them laying eggs.
Monotreme comes from the taxonomic order Monotrema, and yes, the animals in that order are the only extant mammals that lay eggs. The science geeks think they diverged from the other mammalian line roughly 200 million years ago.
A creature of puzzle, a hodgepodge of parts,
With a duck's rounded bill and a beaver's flat tail.
It swims in the shallows and baffles all hearts,
An egg-laying wonder that never grows stale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc2JBtrPpIk
Yep, that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the gif.
Hey Darwin!
LOL
That animal's AI.
I've seen more believable Mitch McConnell proof of life pictures.
AI controlled animatronic Chinese Climate Hoaxing device, pretty damn clever...
The Crew found one of those in a defunct Chuck-E-Cheese a few weeks ago.
"Hey, Mr. Platypus! What about your $32 bar tab"?
"Just put it on my bill".
AAAAHAHAHAHAHA *smek* OW!
"I gotta bill for πΊπ°πΆ..."
Some platypus is going to come by and bill you for that.
Good thing he won't be along to spur you on. Poison glands in the rear feet spurs.
Oh, yeah. I forgot about the spurs.
10/10
Anthro playtpus: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/64854000/
Indiana is worse than Kentucky? I mean it sucks but are they sure? Y'all know Andy won't be governor much longer, right? And that our state lege is big jealous of all the crazy Tennessee is having?
He's ok
https://xcancel.com/TheUnitedSpot__/status/2076503929425477830
Your daily stupid Russian orc content: an attempt to use a machine gun thatβs been mounted on a truck but was made for a helicopter, that can counteractβ¦well, what you see here. Bonus: watch the βinstructorβ burn his hand on the barrel at the end!
https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3mqh3ocxdys2j
What are the odds that Nancy Mace pulls another Riley Gaines finish in the quick primary like she did in the Governors race?
New proof of life photo
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d2faff05481edc976c264389b88d36db3eb4ecdea958b29ee4d5d7cc0f032ced.jpg
If Tennessee is No.1 on the list, why is it an article I read a few weeks back detailing the exodus of retirees from Florida named Tennessee as one of the top states to retire, mainly for it cheap taxation and housing costs.? Mind you I did not research the author or who paid for the article so it there may have been biased. I once read years back that Tennessee also has the most welfare type people .
Not ready to move on past TABS until I've had more coffee, but wanted to comment on Senator Marsha Blackburn's campaign commercial in which she promises that she'll protect Tennessee ("We're #1!") from evil communist China by crushing fortune cookies next to a bottle of Kikkoman Soy Sauce and finishing up with an image of the Pan-Asian Friendship Cat one sees in every Asian restaurant in America.
Trouble is, fortune cookies were invented in America, so she's crushing AMERICAN stuff, not Chinese stuff, and Kikkoman is a Japanese brand, and the Pan-Asian Friendship Cat is also Japanese, so there was absolutely NOTHING that was Chinese in the shot except everything she bought to furnish her kitchen.
Anyway, thanks Marsha, for giving us the best metaphor for Republicanism since the reflecting swamp on the D.C. Mall.
Fuck Lindsey Graham. Sam Neill also just died, at 78, and I liked him a lot better. But you know what he would tell you, Lindsey. βYOU WONβT NEED EYES WHERE YOUβRE GOING, AH HAHAHAHAHAHA!β
Not Sam Neill!
Sam Neill? NOOO!!
Rating the states on inclusiveness of state laws and reproductive rights, in addition to the other factors, puts a thumb on the scale, somewhat. I would have been interested in how state ratings in the other categories correlate with states having laws that are not inclusive and impaired reproductive rights.
Flip-flopping Lindsey Graham changed his mind about dying yesterday and decided to come back to life, but it was too late.
Ron Johnson is dumb but I think Tommy Tuberville has him beat as dumbest Senator.
Sam Neill has died.
I liked his work a lot - and his quirky choices of roles. He starred in a film titled "The Dish" (and looking it up now, I guess it wasn't as oddball as I thought)
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"The Dish"βhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dish
"The Dish is a 2000 Australian historical comedy-drama film that tells the story of the Parkes Observatory's role in relaying live television of humanity's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. It was the top-grossing Australian film in 2000."
"New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for βJurassic Parkβ and βThe Piano,β dies at 78, his family says"
One of the movies I loved him in was Hunt for the Wilderpeople in 2016.
Ended up having lunch Saturday in a MAGA bar in a MAGA town. It's a long story, but we incurred a very long detour on narrow, winding, country roads and got hungry and looked on the map for someplace to eat and there was this place 1/2 mile off the road so I told driving friend to take this turn there now and there we were on a thin strip of a speed bump of a one-block town with about five businesses lined up on the street, one of which was our place, the rest of which looked like they'd been closed since the Eisenhower years. There seemed to be some event in town - a celebration of its founding, I later gathered - so a "fair" had been set up across the street which was more a garage sale with some American flag bunting on a couple of the 4-5 tables set up on the grass and no more than half a dozen people, all vendors.
We got out of the intense July heat and into the restaurant, or rather bar, but there was nothing else, so.
Place was nearly empty, but we definitely got stares when our odd group walked in: me, my wife from France, a guy from Peru, a woman from Taiwan. FOX News on the TV was rabbiting on and on about Charlie Kirk. Three people were at the bar, one of whom was wearing an "I NEED JESUS" t-shirt. One table was occupied, also staring. We clarified to the young guy behind that bar that we'd like something to eat. He reminded me a lot of young Dennis Weaver as the nervous "night man" motel clerk in "Touch of Evil," but was welcoming. The only other employee, working in a tiny open kitchen next to the bar, seemed to be the chef, a guy with a don't-fuck-with-me face who radiated "I've been through some shit " vibes - almost certainly an ex-con, and probably recently from the looks of things. We sat at a table. People kept drifting into and out of the bar, glancing at us as they walked in. In the corner, a young woman who already seemed middle-aged sat next to a table piled with baked goods: cherry pies, "Blueberry Coble," and chocolate-chip cookies, all wrapped in plastic with stickers that said things like "MADE WITH LOVE."
We ordered. Dennis Weaver behaved like no one else had ever ordered food before, but sure enough food came out a few minutes later, brought to the table by Chef Hatchetface, who immediately turned into the nicest guy, wishing us a good meal and telling us to let him know if we needed anything. A few more people wandered in like they were just seeing if anything was happening, and what was happening was apparently us and "Blueberry Coble." The conversation seemed to be town gossip, Jesus, and how some old married couple in town just lovvvved one another soooo much. After breakfast, we bought some cobbler and went over to check out the fair, still no one but vendors. Next to a house, an elderly woman in a chair seemed to be divesting herself of all of her remaining worldly possessions. An old tea kettle had a "75 cents" sticker on it, and a fine china plate made in England caught our eye. She wanted 25 cents for the kettle and said maybe the same for the plate. I asked if $2 would do for both, and she lit up like the Second Coming had just come to town.
Anyway, this is a long boring story about how people are complicated and simple at the same time, and about excellent country-style potatoes in a MAGA bar lost in the Sierra foothills hinterlands.
Interested in knowing where you were. I live in the Sierra foothills part time.
Cletus safari!
All well and good, but how was the Blueberry Coble?
FABULOUS. We waited until last night to try it.
How did Arkansas beat out Georgia for quality of life? Must be the lower cost of living.
Twice as likely to be murdered thus making life precious.
The Bentonville/Fayetteville corridor raises the rest of the state.
Dimwitted centrist plants eulogizing a man that was objectively evil.
Craven. It includes evil excluding courage.