gpa's and egg quotas

I guess that specific excerpt from wikipedia is a lot like college, or more specifically The Adventure of Learning in College (which is the name of a book they made us read (they hinted strongly that there would be a test, which there never was, which was a learning experience itself) before we went down to college in the fall of 1963).

It's a bunch of latin words connected to words without really that much meaning, and after the whole thing is read what have you learned that you didn't know before?  Not that much and now you are bored and sleepy but there is that test tomorrow so the best thing to do is just memorize the definitions of those latin words because that is probably what is going to be on the test because it's easy to write a test that way.

Ooplasm, nice word, sounds like something out of Dr Seuss, the other words not so much, but you don't want to fail this quiz because that would put your C in jeopardy and a D could drop your average below 3.0 and that could flunk you out of school and the next thing you know you are dressed in olive drab on a plane on the way to meet Uncle Ho.

Ho ho Ho Chi Minh/The NLF is gonna win.

I kept getting NLF mixed up with NFL which for sports unenthusiasts like yourself is the National Football League.

Ah those were the days.  Get nucleus confused with the nucleolus, and the next thing you know you are drinking your beer for free only it's warm and in a can from an airlifted pallet in the middle of some jungle and there are no hot babes anywhere.  Ah that's the adventure of learning in college my son.

And we still don't know why chickens lay unfertilized eggs, or if other birds do the same or the why of any of it.  And parthenogenesis I haven't looked that up either and a long weekend is upon us.

Why did the chicken lay the egg?  She thought it would impress that new kind of great ape without fur which even way back then everybody in the animal world could see was going places with his ingenious use of rocks and sticks, and how about those opposable thumbs, huh? 



It would be nice to have a warm place with food and without the risk of being eaten to sit around and explore her thoughts, maybe have a fling with that handsome strutting rooster, raise a little family (Do hens tend to their chicks once they are hatched?).  Except it turned out that the food was kind of crappy, and the apes would rather save money than keep Henny Penny warm, and that part about not being eaten, well making a deal with the hairless ape was like making a deal with the devil.  If you thought letting your GPA drop below a C was bad for your health, try letting your egg production dip beneath the profit line.