January 21, 2011

Snub-Nosed Monkey from National Geographic Cute, bundled up for the cold, very blond (this variety is the 'golden snub-nosed') and kinda alien-looking (according to the guy I stole this from). All together now: AAWWWWWWW...
posted by oneswellfoop 13 years ago
  • The theory presented here is that the monkey's nose got snubbed to prevent freezing it off. Also snub noses don't break so easily. In fact, anything that sticks out more is correspondingly more vulnerable to being damaged. Yet human evolution has clearly gone contrarian. Why? Is it for the merely social benefit of the aristocratic look? Or is it really true that the hooded human nose works better in a dry climate, where it can conserve moisture better? If so, then why do people live in New Jersey where it rains or snows every other frigging day? Help me out here. It's a death trap according to Bruce Springsteen. I've been in California this last month and I'm totally willing to grow a longer snout if that's what it takes to live there permanently...
  • If having flat or small appendages is some sort of indication of evolution, then perhaps my endowment would mean that I am highly, highly evolved.
  • I've been in California this last month and I'm totally willing to grow a longer snout if that's what it takes to live there permanently... And yet, California became known as the Plastic Surgery Capital of the World originally because of Nose Reduction Surgery! In other news (and links stolen from MetaChat), the Black Snub-nosed Monkeys have the cut-off noses and lips that look like they got an overdose of collagen injections.
  • Oh. The black golden monkey it is...By the way, I have three (3), electricity delivered to the turning ball, industrial strength disco light turners. Which I would sell. Formerly priced at $360. Make an offer? We may have to move soon.
  • No wait. This is about the Cretacious Period cephalopods called ammonites... Their fossilized shells were as common back then as discarded beer cans are out in the woods today...
  • Ammonites went extinct quick and mean, in geological terms.
  • A simple intubated tube for me! <:(!)
  • No romance in the tubular extinction. I'll go for the plummeting giant asteroid play.
  • As Archie Bunker used to say, "Stifle yourself!" We're workin' on it.