Mutants?

[Nonsequitur]

I'm sorry. I know that was in bad taste. But, I couldn't stop laughing as I was typing it...

Yeah, but I noticed it didn't affect your typing. :tongue3:

 

[just-want-peace]

Okay. Now listen up you young whippersnappers. Back in the "old days", before we had them thar Interstate highways, there was a roadside advertising campaign that has become a piece of Americana. Burma Shave, a shaving cream, used a series of little signs by the side of the highway. When read together, they comprised a bit of roadside poetry that always ended with the sponsors name. For example...

"Around the curve

Lickety split,

Beautiful car

Wasn't it?

Burma Shave"


Here is a link.

MP, you made my day with this link! Just finished sending it to all my "over-the-hill" email buddies.

Sure did bring back memories.

I remember that any trip was made nicer and shorter by virtue of being on the lookout for "BURMA-SHAVE" signs.

(Wouldn't surprise me if they were on the streets of gold. :tongue3

 

[donnA]

the op tied mutations to evolution, anyone addressing evolution is only following the op.

 

[AntennaFarmer]

So what? It's also the cornerstone of natural selection. It's also the cornerstone of genetics.

.....

Further, your post claiming that mutations are always negative is incorrect. They are usually negative, but they are occaisionally positive. The nectarine, a mutation of the peach, is a good example of a positive mutation.

The question of whether a mutation is "beneficial" or not should properly be taken from the view of the nectarine. That is to say: is the mutation helpful to the survival of the peach? Do fuzzless peaches survive better?

 

[poncho]

Back in May of this year I became a mutant. I put my pinkie finger in the way of a 20 ton press and cut part of it off. Now, I'm a mutant. And I have to say I found the whole experience to be negative.

 

[OldRegular]

Back in May of this year I became a mutant. I put my pinkie finger in the way of a 20 ton press and cut part of it off. Now, I'm a mutant. And I have to say I found the whole experience to be negative.

I can see it now. Little ponchos with a short pinky!:thumbs:

 

[poncho]

I can see it now. Little ponchos with a short pinky!:thumbs:

I call it my "dinkie pinkie". :smilewinkgrin:

Mutants Unite!