Comments on: If you’re so smart, how come? http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/602 Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:43:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/602/comment-page-1#comment-9711 Dave Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:48:29 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=602#comment-9711 <img src="http://www.clanfergusonsociety.co.uk/images/crest3.jpg" align="right" width="110"/>Cammie, I'm always happy to be able to hear the surf -- and I've always agreed with <a href="http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/beverlyhillb/beverlyhillbIMAGE/beverlyhillb.jpg" rel="nofollow">Daisy May Moses</a> that a swimming pool is essentially a ce-ment pond. One gene I apparently do not have expresses itself in the ability to tan. My hypothesis: my Highland- and island-dwelling ancestors, feeling as they did so often "the kiss of sweet Scottish rain," never got around to evolving melanin. Cammie, I’m always happy to be able to hear the surf — and I’ve always agreed with Daisy May Moses that a swimming pool is essentially a ce-ment pond.

One gene I apparently do not have expresses itself in the ability to tan. My hypothesis: my Highland- and island-dwelling ancestors, feeling as they did so often “the kiss of sweet Scottish rain,” never got around to evolving melanin.

]]> By: Cammy Bean http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/602/comment-page-1#comment-9709 Cammy Bean Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:46:41 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=602#comment-9709 Glad you made it to the beach! Glad you made it to the beach!

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