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Christmas

The Twelve Days of Christmas

This is what comes of having kids who are unabashedly choir geeks. While other people are watching Very Funny Animated Gifs Part 22,305 and telling their friends and family about it, I’m being alerted to the existence of clever a cappella groups like Straight No Chaser.

(Well, actually the kids tell me about the very funny animated gifs, too.)

Anyway, for your holiday viewing and listening pleasure, here’s the wildly popular SNC version of The Twelve Days of Christmas…
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Posted: December 21st, 2007 under Christmas, Straight No Chaser.
Comments: none

Virgin giant lizard to give birth in holiday season

The largest lizards in the world are capable of “virgin births”.
Scientists report of two cases where female Komodo dragons have produced offspring without male contact.
Tests revealed their eggs had developed without being fertilised by sperm - a process called parthenogenesis, the team wrote in the journal Nature.
One of the reptiles, Flora, a resident of Chester Zoo in the UK, is awaiting her clutch of eight eggs to hatch, with a due-date estimated around Christmas.

bellini komodo

Kevin Buley, a curator at Chester Zoo and a co-author on the paper, said: “Flora laid her eggs at the end of May and, given the incubation period of between seven and nine months, it is possible they could hatch around Christmas - which for a ‘virgin birth’ would finish the story off nicely.

“We will be on the look-out for shepherds, wise men and an unusually bright star in the sky over Chester Zoo.”

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The only other thing I’d want to add to this post would be the video of Bert Parks in The Freshman, singing “There she is…Your komodo dragon…”

Damn, that would have been the perfect finish. YouTubers, start your engines!

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Posted: December 22nd, 2006 under Christmas, General, General.
Comments: 2