no kip med truinkruiden for me

[ritaxis]

So "Holland's Finest" in San Jose informs me that they're not allowed to import chicken. It seems to me that by the time it's been ground to the consistency of toothpaste and baked with various vegetables embedded in it the chance of spreading bird flu is rather less than the chance of me sprouting long silky pearlescent blue-green wings and

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[kip_w]

"Chuse" is used in the U.S. Constitution, and was apparently an allowable variant at the time. I don't know what era the book is in, but I knew I'd seen it somewhere.

[kip_w]

That's no smeerp! It's an asquilax -- "a lion with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit." (Thanks to Clancy Wiggum at the Ren Faire in a "Simpsons" episode.)

[kip_w]

... or maybe it's esquilax with an 'e' -- I feel so ignorant now...

[mjlayman]

How about intersex fish? They're being found all through the Potomac and tributaries -- male bass with immature eggs.

[ritaxis]

Apropos of what? But it's interesting anyway. Is it the normal thing that some fish do where they switch sex at will (or in response to stress), or is it a response to hormones and hormone-like substances in the water?

[mjlayman]

They think it's from pollutants. I was thinking of it as yet another odd thing happening in nature.