Re: Settling the stein argument -- hopefully

Pete Casso wrote:
> 
> >Dave wrote:
> >>Pete wrote:
<snip>
> >>hat or Viking horns. Male Birdsteins have a penis. Female Birdsteins have
> >>breasts. Birds have neither  **** nor *****.
> >          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >I expect the males do have a ***** or how do they reproduce? I've never
> >really gone up to one and snuck a look, though, so I've no idea what it
> >looks like;  perhaps you mean it is entirely retracted into the body
> >when not in use i.e. they don't have a visible, external *****.
> 
> <grin> What I meant was that for _pictorial_ purposes, birds do not have a
> ***** the way humans have, i.e. a dangling stick that visibly moves about when
> we move about, etc I did not want to deny birds the joy of *** <another grin>
> 
<snip>

* An awful lot of animals manage to reproduce without.
* Birds are don't-havers. Not even completely retractable or invisible
ones 
  (referring to ****, not birds).
* On the other hand, male bats do.

BTW, sorry for censoring the reproductions of your postings :-)

Yours

Johannes Schoeoen

"master of research under the event horizon"
(No matter how much work you throw in, nothing ever comes out.)
dept. of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

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