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Friday, July 21, 2006

Evolution and Samuel L. Jackson

Posted by on July 21 at 12:32 PM

“I want these motherfucking snakes off the motherfucking plane!”


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Everyone knows that if you let loose a bunch of poisonous snakes on an airplane, they'd make a beeline towards the warmest thing they could find (probably the auxiliary power unit), curl up, and nap, right?

I'm so motherfucking bored of those motherfucking snakes on that motherfucking plane.

I can't read that article because the photo of that flesh-colored snake is sooo creepy.

I'm with Art. I can't read that article because everytime someone uses the words "motherfucking" "snakes" and "plane" in a sentence together I fall into a deep, deep coma for fifteen minutes.

Not that revolutionary a study, certainly not "a radical new theory". As crusty a traditionalist as James Fortey spent a good deal of time in his book "Life" on the evolution of motor skills, and the development of fear in pre-humans deriving from snakes and reptiles.

Why is it news services feel that every scientific study published has to be "radical" in order to be considered interesting enough for public attention? Would anybody have found this less interesting if they left out that one half-sentence?

Are the snakes ill-tempered?

Didn't you mean to say, "I want these motherfucking snakes of the mutherfucking PLAIN!"

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