Shereads Question Thread

[NoJo]

Sheread is suffering from a lack of questions. Let's provide her with some:

Why isn't 'couth' a word?

 

[Dar~]

Why is phonics unsoundoutable?

 

[NoJo]

(theoretical question) Where does all the jizz go when you don't have an orgasm for a two weeks?

 

[TheEarl]

Why isn't 'couth' a word?

Couth has actually been accepted into the OED and Mirriam-Webster on the bsis of popular usage. In other words it was backwards engineered from uncouth. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=couth

Why is phonics unsoundoutable?

The same reason that abbreviation is such a long word and onomatopoeia doesn't sound like anything.

(theoretical question) Where does all the jizz go when you don't have an orgasm for a two weeks?

It get recycled by your testes and used to produce the next batch.

I am Weird Harold, and I'll be here all day. Try the veal.

The Earl

 

[Pure]

Is a fly the only animal whose name is exactly (the verb) what it does? (Iow, things like 'night crawlers' are ruled out, 'crawler' being a noun.)

Why is the fly called so, and not, say, a bird?

 

[Pure]

It's known that a single egg can be used to create a life, indeed in some sense it is living, has (a) life; take, in this case, a human egg. (Some animals have virgin births.)

So is each egg a person?

Or does it become a person only when it's 'prodded' and first begins the division process? Or when? (Assume no sperm are involved.)

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . So is each egg a person? . . .

Yes, and don't they have voting rights?

So, who is going to design the voting machine for this long-neglected majority.

 

[Pure]

tricky

virtual, you raise a subtle point.

the 'virgin birth' daughter of a mother has just the mother's DNA, ie. is like a younger twin sister.

so doesn't the new person's vote effectively *double* the mom's voting power? is this fair? wouldn't it be fairer if each got 1/2 a vote?

 

[Sunnie]

If the 7/11 is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?

 

[AppleBiter]

Why is the fear of long words called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?
(Seriously!)

Why do most pairs of jeans have that tiny little pocket in the front (usually just inside the pocket on the right) and what is it supposed to be used for?

What is the purpose of a dog's tail?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . the 'virgin birth' daughter of a mother . . . is like a younger twin sister.
so doesn't the new person's vote effectively *double* the mom's voting power? . . . wouldn't it be fairer if each got 1/2 a vote?

It is more complicated than that. Most women have their lifetime supply of eggs when they reach puberty. So there is more than one potential younger twin sister there.

If granted one vote apiece, each woman would practically become, in effect, her own riding. That seems the fairest to me — one life, one vote.

If they insist upon splitting the vote among all the lives in one body, they will have to develop a voting machine that can handle compound fractions.

Wouldn’t registering for the vote mean a visit to a registered gynaecologist to tally her votes?

And couldn't a doctor who performs a tubal ligation be found guilty of vote tampering?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It's known that a single egg can be used to create a life, indeed in some sense it is living, has (a) life; take, in this case, a human egg. (Some animals have virgin births.)

So is each egg a person?

Or does it become a person only when it's 'prodded' and first begins the division process? Or when? (Assume no sperm are involved.)

Some animals may have virgin births, but none of the are mammals - the single scientifically recorded exception being a lab mouse somewhere in Japan, or something like that, and even that one has the combined DNA of two different ova.

Either way, neither eggs, ovules, or ova constitute a person, but it can be argued that as soon as they become zygotes, i.e. from the moment they acquire their own, independent DNA, you are before a "person", even before the first cleavage occurs.

Of course that if there are no pernicious interferences that arrest or terminate its development, the zygote will be entitled to the right to vote, when it reaches 18 years of age, or other where legally applicable.

 

[cloudy]

Why do most pairs of jeans have that tiny little pocket in the front (usually just inside the pocket on the right) and what is it supposed to be used for?

It's a coin pocket. (The things you learn when you work for a major jeans retailer...)

 

[minsue]

...you are before a "person", even before the first cleavage occurs.

Thank god. I still have no cleavage. I'd hate to think it's necessary for personhood.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Thank god. I still have no cleavage. I'd hate to think it's necessary for personhood.

You and me both

 

[Dar~]

Thank god. I still have no cleavage. I'd hate to think it's necessary for personhood.

PMSL!

 

[Pure]

nope

a 'zygote', according to my medical dictionary is formed from a union of a sperm and an ovum.

i'm talking about an egg which, one way or another, is induced to start growing, and presumably 'cleaving.' i don't know the terms for the cleaving and two cell stages.

though cleavage with no male around to appreciate it strikes by as quite tragic.

 

[minsue]

though cleavage with no male around to appreciate it strikes by as quite tragic.

I disagree.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

a 'zygote', according to my medical dictionary is formed from a union of a sperm and an ovum.

i'm talking about an egg which, one way or another, is induced to start growing, and presumably 'cleaving.' i don't know the terms for the cleaving and two cell stages.

though cleavage with no male around to appreciate it strikes by as quite tragic.

Kaguya, the Japanese "virgin birth" mouse, resulted from a female-female zygote. It is unheard of in nature, and only a one-time event on laboratory, so it is natural that your medical dictionary doesn't accomodate it yet. A human (or mammal) egg cannot possibly be induced to cleavage without first becoming a zygote (be it female-male or, theoretically, female-female), because an egg only contains half of the genetic material necessary.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

There are 15 species of whiptail lizards that reproduce exclusively without the need of fertilization. Their populations are entirely female, but they still go through all the mating rituals as other lizards, with some taking the role of males (the butch) and mounting the lezzards that are about to produce eggs. Even though these lesbian fuck-feasts play no direct part on the reproductive process itself, the increase in hormones that results from the sexual stimuli greatly maximises reproductive success.

 

[gauchecritic]

Glad someone answered the cloning one. I was beginning to disbeleive myself about the introduction of viral dna in order to promote cell division. (which is why I think the word 'clone' has been bastardised from the original sci-fi idea)

The little front pocket on jeans is where you put your zippo.

I know it's not a creature as such but 'egg' is a transitive verb does that count?

Dogs' tails are purely for the purpose of describing american presidents and who is wagging what?

On the voting thing and in relation to the cell division thing, with the mitochondrial dna, which is what sperm carry, and what happens to them and the number of votes allowable. Does this mean men are legally obliged to jack off in front of the voting scrutineers in order to cast their 10 million votes?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . Of course that if there are no pernicious interferences that arrest or terminate its development, the zygote will be entitled to the right to vote, when it reaches 18 years of age, or other where legally applicable.

Ah! You're no fun!

. . . from the moment they acquire their own, independent DNA, you are before a "person", even before the first cleavage occurs. . . .

Whee! At least you are not trying to disenfranchise me, altogether!



I object!

The purpose of this thread is to generate QUESTIONS so Shereads will come back and answer them. The purpose is not for passing wiseacres to to show off by ANSWERING them.


Jeez!




And I always understood that little pocket in men's jeans was for his date to slip a couple of finger in, to keep him under control, and not bolt off after some other chick.

 

[NoJo]

Ah! You're no fun!


I object!

The purpose of this thread is to generate QUESTIONS so Shereads will come back and answer them. The purpose is not for passing wiseacres to to show off by ANSWERING them.

Yes, they're all spoilsports. I'm going home. Wait, I think I am home. Damn.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

This is not the response I was expecting to the lesbian lizzards tidbit.

 

[gauchecritic]

This is not the response I was expecting to the lesbian lizzards tidbit.

The word you're looking for is shenanigins.