Comments on: The Secret Sex Life Of Mistletoe

By: rickyjames

rickyjames — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:14:02 +0000

…it’s luxuriant, not luxurient. A distinction that only a copy editor would care about.

By: dwarfmistletoe

dwarfmistletoe — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:01:59 +0000

Ah! O.k. – thanks!

By: Sweetwind

Sweetwind — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:40:58 +0000

Ah, you read the “Trolling is not tolerated here” at the top of the posting page, eh? I would define trolling as posting an outrageous comment which you don’t even necessarily believe, just to get people all riled up. Profanity might be involved. As usual, the Wikipedia entry defines it better than I ever could. Oooh neat, I never realized it was a fishing metaphor. I always pictured stinky ogres who lurk under bridges, myself.

By: dwarfmistletoe

dwarfmistletoe — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 21:57:06 +0000

O.K. – all is on! Excellent head of hair, rj. Well done. So what is trolling?

By: rickyjames

rickyjames — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:43:19 +0000

... dies like a dog! March on! OK, so here's MY hair, attached of course to the rest of me. It's going gray due to the stem cell malfunction discussed recently here on SciScoop. I vote that SciScoop superuser janra be voted into LFHCFS - I think she's got the locks for it, as I saw firsthand during a recent side trip to her (beautiful rain forest) neck of the woods in B.C. on my way to a month in Alaska.

Cindy, glad to have you aboard as somebody who likes SciScoop. Pick a user name and join the regulars as we post away. And congrats on your research - we've got an awful lot to learn about plants. As a kid I was facinated by Venus Fly Traps and whatever hydraulics that made them work...perhaps someday you'll take a crack at explaining how THAT works?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 23:34:36 +0000

hi – Cindy here! I am SO-O-O embarassed about the hair thing. My sister did this to me – honest!

Wish i could see some pics of the thinning rj hair, though!

As for the dmt research, I am very, very proud of it. I found many other really cool things that I (ad Mike S.) are publishing ASAP.

I think this website is great!

By: rickyjames

rickyjames — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:32:50 +0000

I’ve been noticing in the mirror lately that when I comb my hair after getting out of the shower, it is a lot thinner than it used to be. The wet combed strands somehow show my scalp, and I don’t remember seeing that before. It’s not until my hair gets dry and fluffy that the scalp disappears. Somehow to me that doesn’t qualify as luxurient. On the other hand, with my genes I’ll never go bald (altho sometimes I daydream about shaving my head just to see what I’d look like – I’m convinced if I shaved my beard and went with a crew cut I’d look a decade younger), so OK, I accept!

By: gypsysoul

gypsysoul — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:25:48 +0000

the Luxurient Flowing Hair Club. RJ, I believe you should submit a pic for membership consideration. I mean, some of the guys don’t have waist-length locks– and what they do have is Einstein era. You, on the other hand– well, can certainly claim luxurient tresses, even if they don’t flow past your shoulders.

Just my objective observation :-).