[ExI] ep again

[William Flynn Wallace]

re odd behaviors - there was an Italian law professor who was sitting in on
a colleague's class in torts and I was there.  He never said anything - he
just sat there and ran his little finger across his lips over and over and
again and again.  Never saw the like of it.  But I do know what FReud would
say.  Did you have anything in mind for odd behaviors that might be genetic?

That Aussie will run the fat off the Labradoodle.  Can go on all day long.
Should never be allowed to be a pet.  All that energy and walking around on
a leash.  Probably should be put on Xanax.

Not all that odd: I don't like bad language - never did.  Mama hated it
with a passion and so did every Munson I knew (Mama's family).  As a
libertarian I of course accept it, but have quit books when the characters
are talking like stereotyped Mafia goons.  You can get Dammit out of me if
I stub my toe, but never just toss those words into my sentences.  I don't
disapprove of the various sexual deviations - don't bother me at all.  But
I am not interested in any of them.  If you went on what I didn't do, you
might think I was a prude, a bigot, and a prig.  Nope.  Don't turn up my
nose - just don't like any of the above.

I have often wondered about jiggling legs while sitting.  I see it often
when I watch tennis.  Have not noticed any genetic involvement there.

bill w

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> My next door neighbor’s dog is a rescue animal, mixed, but with ancestors
> clearly Scottish shepherd and English shepherd, the last several
> generations of which never saw a sheep.  Somehow this dog gets a most
> puzzled look whenever she sniffs my wool pants, with instincts calling to
> her but not really explaining what to do.
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> I saw something yesterday with was most interesting.  One of her friends
> is a big overweight Australian Labradoodle, as much flabby as fluffy.
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> https://www.dogbreedinfo.com/australianlabradoodle.htm
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> When these two bitches get together, they play in a way I don’t see when
> the shepherd is in contact with other dogs in the park.  These two run in
> concentric circles, with the athletic shepherd on the outside and the
> Aussie blobbing along on the inside.
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> It occurred to me last night why this might be: the lab kinda looks like a
> sheep.  Her friend runs around outside, attempting to herd her fluffy
> friend to the center of a non-existent flock.
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> Dogs bred for a job and now serving as pets must be so confused by their
> own instincts.
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> Keith talks about evolutionary psychology, which is really in some ways
> the human equivalent of the unemployed working dog.  Perhaps we, like our
> pets, are vaguely compelled to do odd behaviors, to follow the puzzling
> instructions of our own feelings, somehow genetically encoded by evolution.
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> spike
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