Posted by Bone Ur on 11/26/07 13:25

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:59:30
GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:

>>> Bordering on arrogance, in fact. :)
>>
>> Oh, like a Google grouper?
>
> Groupers <spit> are just clueless.
>
> Ow. That hurt. I think sharks aren't supposed to spit.

Probably don't have the cheeks for it. Or maybe one of the tin cans came
up.

>> Yes, sharks are called "the perfect eating machine". But what else
>> do they do that's interesting? I would hardly say that spending a
>> life just swimming and eating equates to having achieved perfection
>> on any reasonable scale in the universe as a whole.
>
> Well, we boink. That's pretty fun. And we do it in public.
>
> Other than that: Swim to live; live to swim.

And when you're called for the final judgment, what are you gonna say?
"I boinked and swam in oblivious malaise..."? Now that I think about it,
I've never heard anyone ever claim there were sharks in heaven. Little
wonder.

>>> Humans evolved faster because they had more to imrove on and less
>>> time to do it. Eventually, they may reach the evolutionary
>>> perfection that sharks have. Well, probably not -- sharks have
>>> avoided the unwanted capability to blow themselves up in massive
>>> quantities.
>>
>> Humans had more to improve on because they had more potential to
>> begin with. The conclusion is unavoidable: sharks are an
>> evolutionary cul-de- sac who persist only because of the vastness of
>> their preferred environment. Such a predator dwelling on land would
>> surely have been eliminated long ago by the stupidest humans you can
>> imagine (barring your reflections on some of the posters here).
>
> You forget one thing. Land sharks.

-An extremely rare breed with negligable impact on anything except
standup comedy.

>>> One of the essences of sharkness is the beauty of sleekness and
>>> balance.
>>
>> Simple symmetry and simple mentality. Whoopee twang.
>
> We have an extremely low rate of mental illness, Mr. Vulnerable. ;)

Well, there aren't a lot of sick rocks in the world, either...

--
Bone Ur
Cavemen have formidable pheromones.

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