T P O

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The Patient Ox (aka Hénock Gugsa)

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** TPO **
A personal blog with diverse topicality and multiple interests!


On the menu ... politics, music, poetry, and other good stuff.
There is humor, but there is blunt seriousness here as well!


Parfois, on parle français ici aussi. Je suis un francophile .... Bienvenue à tous!

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Saturday, June 19, 2021

Eva Green, Royauté véritable ! - by Hénock Gugsa

 

Eva Green, Royauté  véritable ! 

- by Hénock Gugsa -

Please click on the image to magnify !

Eva Green, French actress born 1980
A veritable royalty !

~ a ferocious princess 

(une féroce princesse)

~ a mad, evil queen !
(une folle méchante reine)
 

 

Monday, June 14, 2021

Daunting Thoughts ! ~ by "ironychan"

 

Daunting Thoughts ! *

~ by "ironychan" ~ 

     I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

     If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

     If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

     If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

     We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

     My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs.  If we saw one we would not recognize it.  As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.
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* source : "ironychan" on tumblr.com

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