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01 Apr 2021, 9:27 am

Scientific, social, serious or silly, whatever you want :P



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01 Apr 2021, 9:40 am

Premise: Alcohol causes intoxication.

Procedure: Drop live specimens of the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Annelida, the class Clitellata, the order Opisthopora, and the suborder Lumbricina (the common, garden-variety earthworm) into 1000ml beakers filled with 98% pure ethyl alcohol.

Observations: In all 100 trials, no observable symptoms of intoxication were observed in the specimens.  However, all specimens immediately ceased moving when immersed in the alcohol solution.  Further examinations revealed that the cause of immobility was that the specimens had ceased living.

Conclusion: If you get drunk, you will not have worms.

:roll: This is an example of improper "science".


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01 Apr 2021, 10:02 am

Fnord wrote:
Clitellata

Seriously? :lol:



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01 Apr 2021, 10:04 am

domineekee wrote:
Fnord wrote:
class: Clitellata
Seriously?
Seriously.  Link to Source.  Why do you ask?


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01 Apr 2021, 10:26 am

Fnord wrote:
domineekee wrote:
Fnord wrote:
class: Clitellata
Seriously?
Seriously.  Link to Source.  Why do you ask?

I'm surmising that someone named the "clitoris" after a worm... WTF :?



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01 Apr 2021, 10:56 am

domineekee wrote:
Fnord wrote:
domineekee wrote:
Fnord wrote:
class: Clitellata
Seriously?
Seriously.  Link to Source.  Why do you ask?
I'm surmising that someone named the "clitoris" after a worm...
The etymology of the word indicates an origin in an ancient Greek term for "shut" or "hook".  I did not look too far into this because the subject is obviously NSFW.

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