Autism is uniquely human, so, no, dogs can’t be autistic.

I have to hope you’re being sarcastic, because otherwise we’re doomed. You been to Miami lately? NYC? Anywhere else on an ocean?

I think that’s why fried rice was traditionally made with the previous day’s leftover rice.

I toss it in my chili. There’s a reason people love it.

The thin walls were more of a problem, though. I could get to most of what I wanted to on the internet, but I couldn’t avoid hearing the people in the next room. They REALLY liked Bieber. You never knew who was watching, though. Nuns can be surprisingly sneaky.

Yup. Catholic. Rather liberal Catholic, but still Catholic. (There was also somebody who liked to hijack other people’s computers, but that’s neither here nor there, at least if you had a decent firewall.)

My brother and I have to agree. Although I didn’t end up in the basement of a building with no elevator like he did, mine was still a cramped s***hole with paper-thin walls and censored internet.

???? That place is nicer than my dorm room!

‘...but it’s much better at hydrating you than a can of soda because there’s no sodium in it.’ You have heard of this thing called hyponatremia, right? (And I’m tired of ‘sodium’ being used as a synonym of ‘salt’. Why not just say ‘salt’? It’s shorter, easier to spell, and isn’t the equivalent of calling water…

It’s not technically a ban, just that lungs are automatically designated ‘unfit for human consumption’. I think they’re worried about disease transmission (TB and suchlike). Lungs are almost pure protein, so I’d expect them to taste like other high protein cuts.

Heck, we get green clouds here in Wisconsin! Those storms were a fixture of my childhood. I actually liked them, because I didn’t have much sense and I got to stay up late and watch Unsolved Mysteries and Beyond Belief.

Yeah.

Good point. I’m just uncertain because a rhinoceros has a different digestive system from a cow (a cow is a ruminant, a rhino is a hindgut fermenter, with a single stomach chamber, like a horse). Not that it would make much difference.

Sounds about right. It’s just the sheer size of everything that might cause problems. How much shorter would the gut really be?

Still, that metre is something of a challenge. Not sure if they even make a speculum that big. The largest one I could find is made for cattle, and is about a third that length.

‘One can only go a couple of feet or so into a rhino before one finds oneself in the middle - much further and one comes out on the other side.’ I think they mean in the back-to-front dimension, which is the way they’d have to go unless they dared cut a hole in the animal.

But the poison they used only works properly on mammals, and the color of the bait is designed to repel birds. What else could they do? Another method would probably cause more bird deaths.

Not sure about birds, but there aren’t any other mammals. Or at least not any that aren’t also invasive.

The one near where I live is still ok. But it has gone down in quality.

Didn’t I say ‘memorable’?