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cecht
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anniet wrote:to be

anniet wrote:
to be continued...

The game's afoot. I love a good series. The plot's a bit slippery, but the slugspense is killing me! Though, maybe this should be moved to "Cruncher's" Corner discussions.

And Welcome Back Mikey!

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Mike Hewson
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I heard someone mention my

I heard someone mention my name. Or was it a snicker ? ;+(

Now. Speaking of twins. There are two sorts. There's good identical and then there's evil non-identical. But is that it ? By the rules of rhetoric the answer must be NO, or this would be a shorter post.

There is a third type typically called semi-identical. They have received an identical set of jeans genes from their mother, but different sets of genes from their father.

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Just the one father, probably happens when two sperm fertilise the one egg. And that's the short answer ...

Two of this sort were born a little while ago DownUnda and it took a while for the researchers to tally up the DNA Comparator Machine Thingey properly, hence it was only announced recently. So .... 

For 215 points : what's the proper technical name used to describe this pair ?

Bonus 100 points : can you say that backwards when drunk ?

Bonus 50 points : are they good or evil ? Mike, how can you even ask that ? Just look at them .... aw shucks ! :-)

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

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cecht wrote:anniet wrote:to

cecht wrote:
anniet wrote:
to be continued...

The game's afoot. I love a good series. The plot's a bit slippery, but the slugspense is killing me! Though, maybe this should be moved to "Cruncher's" Corner discussions.

And Welcome Back Mikey!

Thank you very much!! It's nice to be back in the USA again!! I loved Australia and New Zealand but their coffee is not anything like I like it and I miss my coffee!! I did try Kangaroo, bbq'd, and it was actually pretty good and not tough at all. One person said they thought maybe it was slow cooked first to keep it tender but I don't know.

After they've been squished by Anniet's foot then cooking them is out of the question, don't want any extra grime from the shoe and sidewalk mixed in with all that good butter and garlic!!

And yes Randy I probably was on the plane....it was an Airbus A330 with lay flat seats in first/business class, where I was, so it wasn't too bad of a flight. We took off just after midnite of the 29th and then because we crossed the International Date Line landed before we took off. In fact it's just before midnite of the 29th right now and I've just woken up after having some dinner and taking a nap. We landed at 9am, got to the hotel about 90 minutes later where fortunately they had a room ready for us and we went to sleep before noon and slept until 5pm when we got cleaned up and had dinner. I will be here tonight and all day tomorrow then get on another plane, around 8pm, to Dallas, Texas then catch another plane, about 2 hours later, to Raleigh, North Carolina where we will arrive around 2:30pm and then be home about 3 to 4 hours later. That's all assuming things go as planned of course! We have built in 2 hours between flights in Dallas because the gates are WAAAAY far apart, they do have a shuttle between gates, but we don't want to have to run to catch our plane.

My Fitbit is giving me double steps for today, it's sooooo confused, but my Dr will love it!!

D Mike is this enough info:

  • Dizygotic Twins.
  • Monozygotic Twins (dichorionic or monochorionic).
  • Polar Body Twins.

 

The Four Different Types of Twins

https://www.babymed.com/monozygotic-dizygotic-monochorionic-diachorionic-twins

cecht
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Mike Hewson wrote:Two of this

Mike Hewson wrote:

Two of this sort were born a little while ago DownUnda and it took a while for the researchers to tally up the DNA Comparator Machine Thingey properly, hence it was only announced recently. So .... 

For 215 points : what's the proper technical name used to describe this pair ?

Bonus 100 points : can you say that backwards when drunk ?

Bonus 50 points : are they good or evil ? Mike, how can you even ask that ? Just look at them .... aw shucks ! :-)

Cheers, Mike.

HA! As a geneticist I know this, they are sesquizygotic twins, and I know this because I had to look it up.

I am properly drunk and I say, "sdratsab elttil thgir"!

The one on the left is obviously the evil one because the other one is looking at him/her very suspiciously, as if he knows all that wide-eyed goochy-goochy innocence is a front for a truly devious agenda.

Ka-ching!  I can hear those points rolling in...

 

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It is half time in the

It is half time in the Gonzaga Texas Tech basketball game so I decided to post here. 

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Betreger wrote:It is half

Betreger wrote:
It is half time in the Gonzaga Texas Tech basketball game so I decided to post here. 

who are you rooting for?

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mikey wrote:Betreger wrote:It

mikey wrote:
Betreger wrote:
It is half time in the Gonzaga Texas Tech basketball game so I decided to post here. 

who are you rooting for?

Minnesota Duluth in the Frozen Four.

 

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mikey wrote:Betreger wrote:It

mikey wrote:
Betreger wrote:
It is half time in the Gonzaga Texas Tech basketball game so I decided to post here. 

who are you rooting for?

I was rooting for the Zags oh well they lost. 

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@Mikey,  the "shuttle " at

@Mikey,  the "shuttle " at DFW is called the Skylink.  It's all electric and has a great deal of torque.  Do be careful and hang on tight when they start up or you'll be smack on your butt.

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RandyC wrote:@Mikey,  the

RandyC wrote:
@Mikey,  the "shuttle " at DFW is called the Skylink.  It's all electric and has a great deal of torque.  Do be careful and hang on tight when they start up or you'll be smack on your butt.

Yeah we went thru there on way to Hawaii too and YES IT DOES!! No I didn't fall but it does take off very quickly!! This time thru we got off one plane in the A Gates and had to go to the C gates, via Skylink, to catch the next plane, not problem we go on the SkyLink and POOF a message comes in that my plane has been moved to the A gates, the VERY gate I just left!! Fortunately we had only gone one stop so we get off the Skylink and get back on it again going back to the A gates and settle in to some seats and they move us AGAIN, but this time only 4 gates down. We got there just as another plane was loading so had a good choice of seats to wait the 1.5 hours for our plane to take off, everyone was on the plane and then some yellow vested maintenance guys come on and work on some cupboard doors that work sometimes but not everytime. They looked at it alot and finally sprayed it with something like WD40 and then after a few more minutes we took off. I slept thru most of the flight, having gotten on a plane from Hawaii at 8:30pm the night before and this being 11am in the morning. The plane landed right on time at 2:30pm and after going to hotel to pick up my car I was home by 6pm and was in bed just after 10pm after watching a tv show to keep it from being recorded. I's now almost 7am the next morning and I'm a little tired but not bad.

Drinking coffee here in the US is FAR different than drinking coffee in other parts of the World, we drink very weak stuff for the most part, but I'm happy to be back home and drinking my own coffee again!! In one restaurant I ordered coffee and they brought me a cup with a solid layer of grounds in the bottom of it, WHOA was it strong. Besides that I couldn't add my milk and sweetener to it or the grounds would be everywhere. I asked the waitress how people do that and she said 'either drink it black or drink the grounds', I said thanks and didn't drink it. In fact I didn't have any more coffee the whole trip, I only drink 2 cups in the morning and up to 2 more cups in the evening after dinner anyway, but I did miss my morning coffee while going thru the web like right now.

My only problem of being on the trip so far are that my wife saw the electric bill with the computers off and realized how much they cost to run!! I knew about how much it was but she didn't and wasn't happy. She just spent twice what the computers cost per month on a new camera lens, so her 'hobby' is expensive too!! I got some of my pc's back online after I got home yesterday, the rest should come back online today. My RAC at some projects was dropping very low so I will have to crunch for different projects to build it back up again before they settle back down into a routine again. Most of that is gpu stuff so that won't take as long to recover as the cpu projects, it just means keeping a close eye on things for a few days.

I am back and winning!!!

Betreger I would have rooted for Gonzaga too, sorry they lost!!

Gary I hope your Minnesota Duluth WIN the Frozen Four!!

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