Saturday, September 19, 2009

Puggles

The Platypus

I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

- Ogden Nash

via The Fat Finch

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Thursday, September 17, 2009

It is too easy being green!

Flying frog This red-footed tree frog—discovered in 2007 in the Indian state of Assam—is among the 353 new species found in the Eastern Himalaya between 1998 and 2008, according to a report released in August by the conservation group WWF. Dubbed the “flying frog,” this unusual amphibian uses its webbed feet as an aid while gliding through the air. (via nationalgeographic)

Flying frog

This red-footed tree frog—discovered in 2007 in the Indian state of Assam—is among the 353 new species found in the Eastern Himalaya between 1998 and 2008, according to a report released in August by the conservation group WWF.

Dubbed the “flying frog,” this unusual amphibian uses its webbed feet as an aid while gliding through the air. (via nationalgeographic)

LINK: all creatures [great and small]


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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

1001 rules for my unborn son - Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Needed: Good punch line.

all creatures [great and small]

There has to be some logical explanation.  Warming lunch?

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Violence is ...

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
                -- Salvor Hardin

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