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PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:11 pm    Post subject: Horn of plenty Reply with quote

http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2186202,00.html Confused Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's not much you can add to that. Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose it must be a very well-paid job. Anyway, I would not apply for it.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How many of my Tax $$ are going towards some scientist jacking off a rino?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mohrorless wrote:
How many of my Tax $$ are going towards some scientist jacking off a rino?


Indeed! #evil

If anyone should pay, shouldn't it be the rhinos? Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mildew wrote:
mohrorless wrote:
How many of my Tax $$ are going towards some scientist jacking off a rino?


Indeed! #evil

If anyone should pay, shouldn't it be the rhinos? Rolling Eyes


Maybe.....unless I can find a Rhino suit...... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just make sure it doesn't look female to another rhino... Shocked
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it has something hanging out to be .....ummmmm.......stroked, it should not look female at all.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mohrorless wrote:
How many of my Tax $$ are going towards some scientist jacking off a rino?


Here is a partial answer for you:

http://improbable.com/2007/10/12/letter-from-a-happy-man/

The Improbable Research motto is "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK". In this case the THINK is that there is a lot of unpleasant, difficult, and sometimes (at least when rhinos are involved) dangerous work that goes into saving an endangered species. I further suggest that collecting sperm from a rhino is only funny for someone that doesn't actually have to do it (but then it's fairly hilarious). Wink

As to how much of your tax $$ are going to this, this is being done by a non-profit group:

SOS Rhino wrote:
SOS Rhino research programs have been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Institute of Museum Services, the Milwaukee County Zoo and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Our researchers are consultants for zoos, institutions and governments in the United States and around the world, including such countries as Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, India, and Australia.

[AND]

Our current projects include the support of over $US250,000 of grants by rhino researchers the world over


So your tax $$ are coming in through the US Fish and Wildlife support, which would be some portion of $US250,000. That's not much as far as grants go.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's funnier when it's put my way......
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