Frog Applause by Teresa Burritt for March 03, 2012

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About the severed dog head on the Blog: The original Soviet documentary film may be viewed on Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940

You may need a strong stomach.

How To Get To Llama School

The dog-head experiment was a hoax. Notice that we never see a full shot of the severed head. Also notice that the circulatory system shows the blood being oxygenated like the water in an aquarium—and there’s no mechanism to remove carbon dioxide, much less to supply nutrients and remove other wastes. Plus the recirculated blood is not heated to body temperature, which is likely to induce hypothermia. I’d also wonder about coagulation, given that the blood is exposed to the air and is recirculated through rubber tubes for hours.

I didn’t realize that llamas did lap dances.

Bah! Llama rama ding-dong! Rama Llama Ding Dong!

I’m saddened to see how the over use of llaminate flooring has decimated the herds of wild llamas to the point of….What!! They don’t make flooring from llamas? Never mind.

Cautionary words from Llama Mmama.

Yah, llama mama…

I have not found one credible article proving beyond reasonable doubt that Brukhonenko’s experiments were faked. What I have found is a lot of discussion and speculation. I’ve read most of it. One example of a Snopes forum thread that cogently discusses the pros and cons is here.

The film itself indicates that an anti-coagulant is added to the dog’s blood, but the hypothermia and CO2 issues are valid.

The experiments were well-documented, but the film may be a re-creation of the actual events. From everything I can see, it has not been conclusively discredited, in spite of how implausible it may appear.

I think everybody missed the point! Here!

Translations: As is common, most of these “translations” are actually re-writes, and do not convey the same information as the English. While all of them say basically the same thing (404, sorry, try again later), each of them displays varying levels of faithfulness to the original (assuming that English is the original.)

The English says nothing about site maintenance, but the others repeatedly imply such. The Turkish is the only one which appears to follow the English, including the admonition to visit the help page, but also says “Updating our site to better serve you.”

Translation is a slippery slope. Having worked in that industry for over 20 years, I’ve seen things… I’ve seen them with my eyes.

You can tell that meat counter is from the 50’s. Today there would be one employee at best, and he or she would be in the back trying to keep away from the customers.

What if I wear my Hoosier Llama Association T-shirt?

Settings? or sittings?

* Llama jargon alert …

What happened????

Llama, please!

Llama Drama (mad at mama)

First rule of Llama … don’t talk about Llama!!!

Wow, talk about stirring up memories. I used to have that ray gun in a different color. It was a squirt gun and always made a mess when filling because the port for putting in the water was so small.

What happens in llama-settings — stays in llama-settings!

Marshmallows fited for consumption?

Science coin is a great idea but nothing was done to make it less obvious the same letters were reused and the area around the letters needs some texture work. Not the best photoshopper ever but I can do way better than that.

Ummm – could you please repeat that?

@BillThompson Brukhonenko may have been scamming the world – and if he was, the Politburo was most likely behind it as a propaganda ploy. My only point is that absence of proof is not sufficient to establish absolute fact one way or another. You said, “The dog-head experiment was a hoax,” and I haven’t seen that demonstrated. I’ve only seen a number of arguments pointing out that it is likely a hoax. Cold fusion is most likely either a hoax or some very sloppy science, but I’ve never seen it disproved, or shown beyond the shadow of a doubt that Pons and Fleischman were deliberately rickrolling the science world. Lack of duplicability is only one factor. I can say without equivocation that the stem-cell research of Hwang Woo-suk was a hoax, because it was proven to have been falsified – but Brukhonenko’s “work” remains in the domain of speculation.

They must not be Jewish. I do not see anyone wearing a llma-kah any where.

llama llama ding dong.

The one-L lama, he’s a priestThe two-L llama, he’s a beast.I would bet a silk pajama there isn’t any three-l lllamaOgden NashHowever attention has been drawn to the conflagration known as a three alarmer….pooh.

llama’s spit so some jargon might be do not spit into the wind mr. llama.

that dog used to have a good head on his shoulders

That’s very a-llama-ing

Raquel Welch on the cross for my sins, which for years were as a result of Raquel Welch in her prehistoric leather bikini.

I thought zebras were the reactionaries of the animal world.

Llamas! (cue Monty Python skit)

Here, here!