Ms. Erma
Science
Erma: So, Alix, this ostrich egg is really HARD now...but it was soft and pliable when it...um...came out.
Alix: I don't really want to go there.
Erma: Moving on...
Birds have only one external opening down there – cloaca, from it come urine, feces and eggs. For a bird the size of an ostrich – that egg wouldn’t be “too much of a stretch”.
Heh, given her imagination, she doesn’t want to think about squeezing a water melon out through a soda straw.
The thought of it just hurts.
And yes, at her age, I’d seen just about every farm animal being born, so watching a cow struggle with a bull calf that was slightly too big though properly presented was one of the first lessons in empathy.
And humans are included in that batch as my youngest sister was home birthed.
Alix has such scientific curiosity otherwise; strange that this subject would dissuade her. Even at that age, I learned everything I could about the subject (mostly from dictionaries and encyclopedias (back in the 1940s).
ORMouseworks almost 10 years ago
Aw, come on, Alix! Don’t be a wet blanket! ;)
Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
How can Alix want to be a zoologist if she’s not giving a darn on that factoid?
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
Wait until they start talking about child birth.
Gokie5 almost 10 years ago
A real EWW moment . . .
lunatic03867 almost 10 years ago
Have you ever seen a kiwi egg? Here’s an x-ray:http://imgur.com/gallery/VPhfMdK
Ginny Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Did anyone figure out why the teacher has NOAA on her vest? Is she a weatherman?
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Aw man.
rnmontgomery almost 10 years ago
Birds have only one external opening down there – cloaca, from it come urine, feces and eggs. For a bird the size of an ostrich – that egg wouldn’t be “too much of a stretch”.
YatInExile almost 10 years ago
Alix doesn’t want to go there, but we can.
JP Steve Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Ms. Erma was originally introduced two(?) Summers ago when Alex went to an NOAA sponsored Summer school where she was teaching.
Pangolin almost 10 years ago
Heh, given her imagination, she doesn’t want to think about squeezing a water melon out through a soda straw.
The thought of it just hurts.
And yes, at her age, I’d seen just about every farm animal being born, so watching a cow struggle with a bull calf that was slightly too big though properly presented was one of the first lessons in empathy.
And humans are included in that batch as my youngest sister was home birthed.
vldazzle almost 10 years ago
Alix has such scientific curiosity otherwise; strange that this subject would dissuade her. Even at that age, I learned everything I could about the subject (mostly from dictionaries and encyclopedias (back in the 1940s).
CalLadyQED almost 10 years ago
I would have said, “when it was first laid.” At least, that’s what I think she should have said.
jr1234 6 months ago
Gently put a knitting needle size hole in both the top and bottom and gently blow it all out so you can keep the egg.
Will take long time to do so with an egg that size.