On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:46:43 -0800, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-5E75F5.22464303122006@news.giganews.com>

In article <9qmdnZcyXJreBe7YnZ2dnUVZ_oKdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"Michelle Malkin" <hypatiab7@comcast.net> wrote:

--
"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:0ss6n2h3uspde28frqhn9e2ffamp5fdrh4@4ax.com...

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:03:33 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <mi84n2ptfu2et027nbvf7qf6nlo4vsjuq2@4ax.com>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:01:23 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:25:02 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <h42sm2tb1qk59n09ga0ohv9tjcg6kvoh7c@4ax.com>

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:39:13 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:21 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <epnmm291oarr5k2u24lsflo0jg2b3db0h2@4ax.com>

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:32:24 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

[]

I smell something "fishy"...

Just by a cursory examination of a picture of a skeleton
here, but it
appears that the tail flukes simply evolved from the
tail,
not from
hind legs. (Just guessing based on two things - a
picture
of the
skeleton, and a knowledge of icthyosaurs, which went
through almost the
exact same evolutionary path, and ended up that way.

You could be right.
But I still smell something fishy.
Look at the photos in the article.
Can you see a tail?
Or is it just a fluke?

Vertical stab.....

You said that on porpoise.

Don't get in a flap about it.

Sonar, yet so far.

Proper bouyancy is a fin line.

Got a bottle in front of your nose again?
I'm beginning to harbour pacific thoughts.

There's several drag nets out for you.

I sea... you think I'm gill-tea?
You think that I fell for your little cod-game hook, line and
sinker?
I'll take it all the way to the Seapreme Court!
Officer O'Cean will sea to that.

The gaff got yer flounderin' after the har poon 'n the bald
section
of
the reef. An' they tossed your tail fins into the reefer they
did.

A reefer you say, Jim lad?
Well spliff me skiff, an' shiver me cinders!
An' I never blunted the har-poon tang.
'Twas some other salty sea dog.

The rock salt implicated you.

Well, that's yer Lot!

Yer, best ta pay the Trent.

Sodd'em.
I'll pay them gomorrow.

Beware they don't smoke ya.

The "salary" of sin.

Sin has a salary?! How much per hour an how
many hours per week?

What about benefits? Does it have a 401K plan?

401 K = 128 degrees Celcius.
That's one hot plan, man.

--

"Michael Gray" <mikegray@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:0ss6n2h3uspde28frqhn9e2ffamp5fdrh4@4ax.com...

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:03:33 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <mi84n2ptfu2et027nbvf7qf6nlo4vsjuq2@4ax.com>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:01:23 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:25:02 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <h42sm2tb1qk59n09ga0ohv9tjcg6kvoh7c@4ax.com>

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:39:13 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:21 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <epnmm291oarr5k2u24lsflo0jg2b3db0h2@4ax.com>

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:32:24 +1030, Michael Gray
<mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

[]

I smell something "fishy"...

Just by a cursory examination of a picture of a skeleton
here, but it
appears that the tail flukes simply evolved from the tail,
not from
hind legs. (Just guessing based on two things - a picture
of the
skeleton, and a knowledge of icthyosaurs, which went
through almost the
exact same evolutionary path, and ended up that way.

You could be right.
But I still smell something fishy.
Look at the photos in the article.
Can you see a tail?
Or is it just a fluke?

Vertical stab.....

You said that on porpoise.

Don't get in a flap about it.

Sonar, yet so far.

Proper bouyancy is a fin line.

Got a bottle in front of your nose again?
I'm beginning to harbour pacific thoughts.

There's several drag nets out for you.

I sea... you think I'm gill-tea?
You think that I fell for your little cod-game hook, line and
sinker?
I'll take it all the way to the Seapreme Court!
Officer O'Cean will sea to that.

The gaff got yer flounderin' after the har poon 'n the bald section
of
the reef. An' they tossed your tail fins into the reefer they did.

A reefer you say, Jim lad?
Well spliff me skiff, an' shiver me cinders!
An' I never blunted the har-poon tang.
'Twas some other salty sea dog.

The rock salt implicated you.

Well, that's yer Lot!

Yer, best ta pay the Trent.

Sodd'em.
I'll pay them gomorrow.

Beware they don't smoke ya.

The "salary" of sin.

Sin has a salary?! How much per hour an how
many hours per week?

On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:03:33 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <mi84n2ptfu2et027nbvf7qf6nlo4vsjuq2@4ax.com>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:01:23 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:25:02 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <h42sm2tb1qk59n09ga0ohv9tjcg6kvoh7c@4ax.com>

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:39:13 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:57:21 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <epnmm291oarr5k2u24lsflo0jg2b3db0h2@4ax.com>

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:32:24 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

[]

I smell something "fishy"...

Just by a cursory examination of a picture of a skeleton here, but it
appears that the tail flukes simply evolved from the tail, not from
hind legs. (Just guessing based on two things - a picture of the
skeleton, and a knowledge of icthyosaurs, which went through almost the
exact same evolutionary path, and ended up that way.

You could be right.
But I still smell something fishy.
Look at the photos in the article.
Can you see a tail?
Or is it just a fluke?

Vertical stab.....

You said that on porpoise.

Don't get in a flap about it.

Sonar, yet so far.

Proper bouyancy is a fin line.

Got a bottle in front of your nose again?
I'm beginning to harbour pacific thoughts.

There's several drag nets out for you.

I sea... you think I'm gill-tea?
You think that I fell for your little cod-game hook, line and sinker?
I'll take it all the way to the Seapreme Court!
Officer O'Cean will sea to that.

The gaff got yer flounderin' after the har poon 'n the bald section of
the reef. An' they tossed your tail fins into the reefer they did.

A reefer you say, Jim lad?
Well spliff me skiff, an' shiver me cinders!
An' I never blunted the har-poon tang.
'Twas some other salty sea dog.

The rock salt implicated you.

Well, that's yer Lot!

Yer, best ta pay the Trent.

Sodd'em.
I'll pay them gomorrow.

Beware they don't smoke ya.

The "salary" of sin.

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:00:35 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:24:39 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <f53il25oa1g8d3j76dj26m77a8lo2mspc3@4ax.com>

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:35:07 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>
wrote in alt.atheism

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 13:00:59 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
- Refer: <tr2fl297gf4l9rl5939rr673jq4jklvv6t@4ax.com>

[]

That's pretty cool. More evidence of evolution (as if it needed more).

When I first saw your article header I was thinking of the dolphin species
sighted by naturalists that had two dorsal fins. They still remain unknown
officially, but are almost sure to exist given the credible sightings. And
since schools of them have been sighted, it can't just be a mutation. It's
amazing how many new dolphin and whale species are still discovered even
nowadays. Many large species are only know by the occassional skeleton.

turk

All dolphins have 4 "fins".
The two "hands", and the tail flukes that evolved from feet.
The specimen in the photo seems to have moved the usual large tail
flukes forward a bit, and shrunk them.
Quite how it manages to propel itself is the mystery.

It would not make sense to assume that a dolphin could have an EXTRA
pair of fins at the rear, in addition to the tail flukes.
That would make 6 limbs, and would be effectively "impossible" to have
evolved in the short time since dolphins split off from land dwelling
quadrupeds.

I smell something "fishy"...

Just by a cursory examination of a picture of a skeleton here, but it
appears that the tail flukes simply evolved from the tail, not from
hind legs. (Just guessing based on two things - a picture of the
skeleton, and a knowledge of icthyosaurs, which went through almost the
exact same evolutionary path, and ended up that way.

You could be right.
But I still smell something fishy.
Look at the photos in the article.
Can you see a tail?
Or is it just a fluke?

Vertical stab.....

You said that on porpoise.

Don't get in a flap about it.

Sonar, yet so far.

Proper bouyancy is a fin line.

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:05:19 +1030, Michael Gray <mikegray@newsguy.com>

On 6 Nov 2006 02:10:48 -0800, "Lucifer" <wyrdology@hotmail.com> wrote:

Michael Gray wrote:

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 15:15:04 -0600, "turk" <turk96@nowaynohow.not>
wrote:
- Refer: <-u2dnYr5iI3OydPYnZ2dnUVZ_hmdnZ2d@comcast.com>

"GoDrex" <godrex35@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:CLOcnbqy3em1otPYUSdV9g@ptd.net...

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061105p2a00m0na015000c.html

That's pretty cool. More evidence of evolution (as if it needed
more).

When I first saw your article header I was thinking of the dolphin
species
sighted by naturalists that had two dorsal fins. They still remain
unknown
officially, but are almost sure to exist given the credible sightings.
And
since schools of them have been sighted, it can't just be a mutation.
It's
amazing how many new dolphin and whale species are still discovered
even
nowadays. Many large species are only know by the occassional
skeleton.

All dolphins have 4 "fins".
The two "hands", and the tail flukes that evolved from feet.

The specimen in the photo seems to have moved the usual large tail
flukes forward a bit, and shrunk them.
Quite how it manages to propel itself is the mystery.

It would not make sense to assume that a dolphin could have an EXTRA
pair of fins at the rear, in addition to the tail flukes.

That would make 6 limbs, and would be effectively "impossible" to have
evolved in the short time since dolphins split off from land dwelling
quadrupeds.

I smell something "fishy"...

Just by a cursory examination of a picture of a skeleton here, but it
appears that the tail flukes simply evolved from the tail, not from
hind legs.

(Just guessing based on two things - a picture of the

skeleton, and a knowledge of icthyosaurs, which went through almost the
exact same evolutionary path, and ended up that way.

"GoDrex" <godrex35@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:CLOcnbqy3em1otPYUSdV9g@ptd.net...

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061105p2a00m0na015000c.html

That's pretty cool. More evidence of evolution (as if it needed more).

When I first saw your article header I was thinking of the dolphin species
sighted by naturalists that had two dorsal fins. They still remain unknown
officially, but are almost sure to exist given the credible sightings. And
since schools of them have been sighted, it can't just be a mutation. It's
amazing how many new dolphin and whale species are still discovered even
nowadays. Many large species are only know by the occassional skeleton.

turk
--
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war
on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept.
6, 2006