After The Fall

[Dicky Underpants]

Ah but we are getting there nn, with the rise of Darkfield (or Dark Field) microscopy.  Best studied with Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor playing in the background.

A good example of mycelial  subterfuge, since the authorship of said T&F is suspect.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Brownie,

Bluehillside, sorry you didn't think my attempt at straight-faced fun was appropriate.  I promise I won't do it again but I couldn't resist at the time.

Well, here's what you wrote:

The somatid is an ultramicrosopic subcellular living and reproducing entity, which many scientists believe is the precursor of DNA and which may be the building block of all terrestrial life.  So, yes, Jeremy, could be.

One might be forgiven I think for failing to see the intended irony. Nonetheless, if that's the way you meant it then I apologise.

[Brownie]

No apology necessary at all, Bluehillside, but thank you.  I must be better at pretending than I thought  .  Maybe it's not fair though because newnature, someone not well known on this forum, may be deadly serious about all this.  I'm not going to 'be funny' about it any more, it was meant to be lighthearted but it could be interpreted as mocking.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Brownie,

No apology necessary at all, Bluehillside, but thank you.  I must be better at pretending than I thought  .  Maybe it's not fair though because newnature, someone not well known on this forum, may be deadly serious about all this.  I'm not going to 'be funny' about it any more, it was meant to be lighthearted but it could be interpreted as mocking.

Actually I disagree - I tend to the thin end of the wedge position whereby if we don't falsify, undermine, mock idiocy like this then we risk the accretion of these stupidities such that eventually they can have real world consequences like people throwing away their proper medicines. Richard Dawkins I recall was pilloried for being po-faced when he objected to horoscopes in newspapers for the same reason but I think he had a point - we privilege idiocy in the public sphere at our peril I think, whether religious idiocy or any other type.

[Étienne d'Angleterre]

Brownie,

Actually I disagree - I tend to the thin end of the wedge position whereby if we don't falsify, undermine, mock idiocy like this then we risk the accretion of these stupidities such that eventually they can have real world consequences like people throwing away their proper medicines. Richard Dawkins I recall was pilloried for being po-faced when he objected to horoscopes in newspapers for the same reason but I think he had a point - we privilege idiocy in the public sphere at our peril I think, whether religious idiocy or any other type.

Completely agree. Take "Till death us do part", a perfect example of showing unenlightened views for what they are.

[Brownie]

I see your point, both of you, but I think I'll leave it to others to do the mick taking from now on.  For all we know, nn is taking the mick!   

[Étienne d'Angleterre]

I see your point, both of you, but I think I'll leave it to others to do the mick taking from now on.  For all we know, nn is taking the mick!

Not so sure, have you seen his blog? Which could also be a wind up I agree but.....

[Brownie]

No I haven't.  I might read it if I can't sleep tonight, thanks Stephen.
A bit later:  I had a peep and recognised it straight away, I obviously looked at it before.  No, I don't think it's a wind up.

[ippy]

Well, I have to admit that Monty Python did have a slight influence on what I wrote...

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/_scripts/brandnew.php

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"What I wrote", wasn't that Morcome and Wise?

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