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« A case of bogus science..(Omar) | Main | Doctor's Dilemma (Sujatha) »

November 16, 2010

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"Man is the only animal that spends time thinking about what only man can do?"

..believes in God

...makes up stories about himself and other animals.

...talks more than he should.

is merely an animal.

P.S. Am I the only animal that has ever wondered if William Hazlitt ever said anything worth agreeing with?(If my memory serves me well he's the clown that suggested that Shakespeare should no longer be performed only read, there's a special ring in hell for those fools).

Meta-man! Man is the only animal than does all of the things in the "Man is the only animal that ___" list.

Each item in the list is something that man is almost alone in doing; some other species does something arguably similar. But it is generally a different species for each item, or maybe one species can perform a few behaviors. The only animal that can do them all is man.<

Man is the only animal that thinks it's the only animal that does __________ when, in reality, many other animals do the same thing.

Fill in the blank. I'd put in words such as think, care, be cruel, use tools, play, murder, solve proble...ms, conduct war.... The list goes on.

I would add, though, that man is the only animal that can be arrogant. We're very good at it.

...completes forms in triplicate.

...forgets to close a tag.

...forgets to close a tag. There. Is that better?

Thanks, Dean. I closed the italics tag also.

...woman is the only animal that cleans up after what man forgets to do.

Hey, no fair, Ruchira. You pre-empted my next one.

...who is obsessed with 'cleaning' the surroundings.


Yesterday, I discovered a great one - actually, several.

Man is the only animal that spills water on his laptop.

Man is the only animal that makes loud vocalizations after spilling water on his laptop.

Man is the only animal that rejoices over a prior decision to get accident insurance for his laptop.


Man is the only animal that takes offence to Ruchira's last comment and then remembers that...

Never mind.

... that has sex for pleasure.
... that uses sex to degrade.
... that is ashamed of sex.


narayan,

Bonobos got you on "sex for pleasure."

Chimpansies, some of them, do a disgusting and violent form of sex degradation.

Being ashamed? You and Mark Twain may be correct. He said, "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to." -Mark Twain

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