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04-22-2013, 02:08 PM
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I wonder . . .
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April 22, 2013 - Earth Day Orchid
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04-22-2013, 02:22 PM
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Now I'm caught between Horsehead Nebula and the Geigo Pig
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04-22-2013, 02:57 PM
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The future is unwritten
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The Orchid family is amazing, so many different shapes and colors.
.........  I've been told you don't see them in people's homes because they are hard to house break. But maybe that's just the really cool ones, and the ones that look like more normal flowers are around, but we don't realize they're Orchids..
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04-22-2013, 06:56 PM
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Doctor Wtf
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The reason orchids are so weird is that the genes which control the development of the flower are all on a single section of the DNA (just one chromosome, IIRC) which doesn't do anything else. This means random changes to the flower can take place without messing up stuff like the plant's biochemistry and overall structure.
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04-22-2013, 07:26 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Ah, dat splain it. Thanks.
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04-23-2013, 12:21 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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The plant we get vanilla from is an orchid...Do we eat any other orchids?
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04-23-2013, 12:33 PM
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Being familiar with the word "orchidectomy", my brain immediately
bounced your question over to: "Yes, Rocky Mountain Orchids" 
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04-23-2013, 12:49 PM
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Radical Centrist
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What you mean "we" kemosabe?
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04-23-2013, 12:52 PM
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Quote:
I had some at a Rockies game once during a visit to Denver.
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04-23-2013, 03:36 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Yeah, but you eat Lutfisk and slurp oysters, so we know that you're a human garbage disposal.
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04-23-2013, 03:44 PM
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truuuuuuuuue....
what's your point?
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