On the Origin of Life: Eggs and Ham

Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it.
Here it is anyway:

--------------------- ***** ---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly headed
through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters made
this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.

Maybe you've been fortunate enough to have seen this on your TV?
There you saw a relatively huge human egg cell with hundreds and thousands
of little sperm cells digging in, their long tails flashing here and there.
Remember that this was a two-dimensional rendering, and YOU were a
three-dimensional spherical cell, so those little sperm cells were ALL OVER
your cell membrane, digging, digging, digging, digging.

And FINALLY one sperm cell breaks through!
(That sperm cell was ALSO you!)
Well! you don't need any more of those sperm cells, so you INSTANTLY
strengthen your cell membrane, and all those many OTHER sperm cells are
stuck.
Their little, long tails keep wagging for a time, but soon they are all dead
and stuck in your cell membrane.
Whatever nutrients they have are eventually absorbed by you.

And what of the single sperm cell that made it inside you?
It swims toward your "nucleus", your BUSY CENTER where all your DNA resides.
The sperm cell is absorbed by your nucleus and your DNA combines with the
sperm cell's DNA to make you a complete human cell.
The DNA from the sperm cell contains a little "chromosome" that will
determine whether you are a girl or a boy!

LUCKY, LUCKY YOU !

First, your luck was really great because for a long time, perhaps a very
long time, your mother passed hundreds of egg cells similar to you but all
still different, and all those egg cells, unfertilised, after they braved
the fallopian tube and uterus, were washed away and died.
Then, your awesome GOOD FORTUNE continued because your sperm cell, the most
assertive of all those thousands and thousands of similar sperm cells (but
all different from each other), your single sperm cell entered your egg cell
and fertilised you, made you whole.

You attached yourself to the uterine wall and began to feed, first on the
nutrient blood that had amassed for weeks.
As you feed you grow.
You divide into two cells, then four cells, then eight; you grow and grow,
and you begin to take the form of an embryo.
For weeks you grow, eventually taking the form of a fetus.
After several months you are fearlessly ready to exit your mother's womb and
are "born".

Now, next we'll go back to that fascinating part of your journey that came
JUST BEFORE you left your mother's egg-producing ovary.
And we'll also retrace the "footsteps" of your father sperm, the one that
made it, the one that was born in your father's testes, who swam and swam as
hard as it could, dug deeper and deeper into your cell membrane and made it
into the inner sanctuary of your first single egg cell.
Maybe we'll find out some interesting things about how YOUR egg cell and
YOUR sperm cell were first manufactured?

Did I mention that, with few exceptions, YOU were born completely devoid of
FEAR?
Yes, some of your DNA contains information about certain things your species
has learned to RESPECT, but not fear.
YOU were BORN FEARLESS !

--
**** the Proz (well, actually Darla)
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!

On Jan 10, 6:46*pm, "Pros Pere" wrote:
Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it.
Here it is anyway:

* *--------------------- ****** *---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly headed
through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters made
this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.

Maybe you've been fortunate enough to have seen this on your TV?
There you saw a relatively huge human egg cell with hundreds and thousands
of little sperm cells digging in, their long tails flashing here and there.
Remember that this was a two-dimensional rendering, and YOU were a
three-dimensional spherical cell, so those little sperm cells were ALL OVER
your cell membrane, digging, digging, digging, digging.

And FINALLY one sperm cell breaks through!
(That sperm cell was ALSO you!)
Well! you don't need any more of those sperm cells, so you INSTANTLY
strengthen your cell membrane, and all those many OTHER sperm cells are
stuck.
Their little, long tails keep wagging for a time, but soon they are all dead
and stuck in your cell membrane.
Whatever nutrients they have are eventually absorbed by you.

And what of the single sperm cell that made it inside you?
It swims toward your "nucleus", your BUSY CENTER where all your DNA resides.
The sperm cell is absorbed by your nucleus and your DNA combines with the
sperm cell's DNA to make you a complete human cell.
The DNA from the sperm cell contains a little "chromosome" that will
determine whether you are a girl or a boy!

LUCKY, LUCKY YOU !

First, your luck was really great because for a long time, perhaps a very
long time, your mother passed hundreds of egg cells similar to you but all
still different, and all those egg cells, unfertilised, after they braved
the fallopian tube and uterus, were washed away and died.
Then, your awesome GOOD FORTUNE continued because your sperm cell, the most
assertive of all those thousands and thousands of similar sperm cells (but
all different from each other), your single sperm cell entered your egg cell
and fertilised you, made you whole.

You attached yourself to the uterine wall and began to feed, first on the
nutrient blood that had amassed for weeks.
As you feed you grow.
You divide into two cells, then four cells, then eight; you grow and grow,
and you begin to take the form of an embryo.
For weeks you grow, eventually taking the form of a fetus.
After several months you are fearlessly ready to exit your mother's womb and
are "born".

Now, next we'll go back to that fascinating part of your journey that came
JUST BEFORE you left your mother's egg-producing ovary.
And we'll also retrace the "footsteps" of your father sperm, the one that
made it, the one that was born in your father's testes, who swam and swam as
hard as it could, dug deeper and deeper into your cell membrane and made it
into the inner sanctuary of your first single egg cell.
Maybe we'll find out some interesting things about how YOUR egg cell and
YOUR sperm cell were first manufactured?

Did I mention that, with few exceptions, YOU were born completely devoid of
FEAR?
Yes, some of your DNA contains information about certain things your species
has learned to RESPECT, but not fear.
YOU were BORN FEARLESS !

--
**** the Proz (well, actually Darla)
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!

Is transference a normal psychological trait or auto-response to every
potential threat upon seans?

~ BG

"Pros Pere" wrote in message
g.com...
Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it.
Here it is anyway:

--------------------- ***** ---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly
headed through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters
made this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.


The strongest sperm butterfly-stroked away from the rest of the pack,
confident to be the winner in this race of egg fertilization. Soon he
disappeared over the horizon, away from the struggling crowd of
sperms, which, like lemmings, felt obligated to follow the leader ... it
is in their DNA.
Suddenly, a faint disturbance on the horizon. As it approached, they
recognized it as the lead sperm, but swimming in the wrong direction,
towards them. As the sperm got closer, the pack saw him flailing his
arms and yelling: "Go back, go back ... it's only a blow job".

....One ovary sez to the other: "Were we going to have music in here
tonight?" Other one sez, "I dunno. Why?" .."Well there's two nuts
outside pushin' an organ in here!"

"Pros Pere" wrote in message
g.com...
Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it.
Here it is anyway:

--------------------- ***** ---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly
headed through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters
made this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.

Maybe you've been fortunate enough to have seen this on your TV?
There you saw a relatively huge human egg cell with hundreds and thousands
of little sperm cells digging in, their long tails flashing here and
there.
Remember that this was a two-dimensional rendering, and YOU were a
three-dimensional spherical cell, so those little sperm cells were ALL
OVER your cell membrane, digging, digging, digging, digging.

And FINALLY one sperm cell breaks through!
(That sperm cell was ALSO you!)
Well! you don't need any more of those sperm cells, so you INSTANTLY
strengthen your cell membrane, and all those many OTHER sperm cells are
stuck.
Their little, long tails keep wagging for a time, but soon they are all
dead and stuck in your cell membrane.
Whatever nutrients they have are eventually absorbed by you.

And what of the single sperm cell that made it inside you?
It swims toward your "nucleus", your BUSY CENTER where all your DNA
resides.
The sperm cell is absorbed by your nucleus and your DNA combines with the
sperm cell's DNA to make you a complete human cell.
The DNA from the sperm cell contains a little "chromosome" that will
determine whether you are a girl or a boy!

LUCKY, LUCKY YOU !

First, your luck was really great because for a long time, perhaps a very
long time, your mother passed hundreds of egg cells similar to you but all
still different, and all those egg cells, unfertilised, after they braved
the fallopian tube and uterus, were washed away and died.
Then, your awesome GOOD FORTUNE continued because your sperm cell, the
most assertive of all those thousands and thousands of similar sperm cells
(but all different from each other), your single sperm cell entered your
egg cell and fertilised you, made you whole.

You attached yourself to the uterine wall and began to feed, first on the
nutrient blood that had amassed for weeks.
As you feed you grow.
You divide into two cells, then four cells, then eight; you grow and grow,
and you begin to take the form of an embryo.
For weeks you grow, eventually taking the form of a fetus.
After several months you are fearlessly ready to exit your mother's womb
and are "born".

Now, next we'll go back to that fascinating part of your journey that came
JUST BEFORE you left your mother's egg-producing ovary.
And we'll also retrace the "footsteps" of your father sperm, the one that
made it, the one that was born in your father's testes, who swam and swam
as hard as it could, dug deeper and deeper into your cell membrane and
made it into the inner sanctuary of your first single egg cell.
Maybe we'll find out some interesting things about how YOUR egg cell and
YOUR sperm cell were first manufactured?

Did I mention that, with few exceptions, YOU were born completely devoid
of FEAR?
Yes, some of your DNA contains information about certain things your
species has learned to RESPECT, but not fear.
YOU were BORN FEARLESS !

--
**** the Proz (well, actually Darla)
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!


Found another note from Darla about this:

Knowing some of you quite well, you will find endless humor in all this.
But isn't it fascinating!
Like a little acorn that grows into the giant oak tree, or the first
molecule of iron oxide on a crowbar that grows and reddens and eventually
turns the crowbar to dust. G

Those of you who are interested will find all the information you need about
what happens in the testes and in the ovaries that results in the
manufacture of the two cells, sperm and egg, that you once were.
I'm called away, now, and when I return, perhaps we can discuss that little
bit of info that your scientists have found, and then we can build on that.
Remember that your focus is on how the manufacture of the egg and sperm
cells might relate to the evolution of the very first cell so long ago.

--
**** Darla
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!

Hard to compete with these joke that I haven't heard since grade
school 50 years ago, but here's one I heard only half that long ago:

Do you know why Santa Claus doesn't have any kids? Well, he only
comes once a year, and then it's down a chimney! And then he gets off
in his sleigh!

Double-A

On Jan 11, 9:29*am, "Pros Pere" wrote:
"Pros Pere" wrote in message

g.com...



Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it..
Here it is anyway:

* --------------------- ****** *---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly
headed through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters
made this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.

Maybe you've been fortunate enough to have seen this on your TV?
There you saw a relatively huge human egg cell with hundreds and thousands
of little sperm cells digging in, their long tails flashing here and
there.
Remember that this was a two-dimensional rendering, and YOU were a
three-dimensional spherical cell, so those little sperm cells were ALL
OVER your cell membrane, digging, digging, digging, digging.

And FINALLY one sperm cell breaks through!
(That sperm cell was ALSO you!)
Well! you don't need any more of those sperm cells, so you INSTANTLY
strengthen your cell membrane, and all those many OTHER sperm cells are
stuck.
Their little, long tails keep wagging for a time, but soon they are all
dead and stuck in your cell membrane.
Whatever nutrients they have are eventually absorbed by you.

And what of the single sperm cell that made it inside you?
It swims toward your "nucleus", your BUSY CENTER where all your DNA
resides.
The sperm cell is absorbed by your nucleus and your DNA combines with the
sperm cell's DNA to make you a complete human cell.
The DNA from the sperm cell contains a little "chromosome" that will
determine whether you are a girl or a boy!

LUCKY, LUCKY YOU !

First, your luck was really great because for a long time, perhaps a very
long time, your mother passed hundreds of egg cells similar to you but all
still different, and all those egg cells, unfertilised, after they braved
the fallopian tube and uterus, were washed away and died.
Then, your awesome GOOD FORTUNE continued because your sperm cell, the
most assertive of all those thousands and thousands of similar sperm cells
(but all different from each other), your single sperm cell entered your
egg cell and fertilised you, made you whole.

You attached yourself to the uterine wall and began to feed, first on the
nutrient blood that had amassed for weeks.
As you feed you grow.
You divide into two cells, then four cells, then eight; you grow and grow,
and you begin to take the form of an embryo.
For weeks you grow, eventually taking the form of a fetus.
After several months you are fearlessly ready to exit your mother's womb
and are "born".

Now, next we'll go back to that fascinating part of your journey that came
JUST BEFORE you left your mother's egg-producing ovary.
And we'll also retrace the "footsteps" of your father sperm, the one that
made it, the one that was born in your father's testes, who swam and swam
as hard as it could, dug deeper and deeper into your cell membrane and
made it into the inner sanctuary of your first single egg cell.
Maybe we'll find out some interesting things about how YOUR egg cell and
YOUR sperm cell were first manufactured?

Did I mention that, with few exceptions, YOU were born completely devoid
of FEAR?
Yes, some of your DNA contains information about certain things your
species has learned to RESPECT, but not fear.
YOU were BORN FEARLESS !

--
**** the Proz (well, actually Darla)
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!

Found another note from Darla about this:

Knowing some of you quite well, you will find endless humor in all this.
But isn't it fascinating!
Like a little acorn that grows into the giant oak tree, or the first
molecule of iron oxide on a crowbar that grows and reddens and eventually
turns the crowbar to dust. *G

Those of you who are interested will find all the information you need about
what happens in the testes and in the ovaries that results in the
manufacture of the two cells, sperm and egg, that you once were.
I'm called away, now, and when I return, perhaps we can discuss that little
bit of info that your scientists have found, and then we can build on that.

Double-A wrote:
Hard to compete with these joke that I haven't heard since grade
school 50 years ago, but here's one I heard only half that long ago:

Do you know why Santa Claus doesn't have any kids? Well, he only
comes once a year, and then it's down a chimney! And then he gets off
in his sleigh!

What does the Starship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common?

They're both circling Uranus and seeking out Klingons.




--
Scott Campbell

"I named my dog, 'Stay'. We had hours of fun saying, 'Come,
Stay'. Finally, he got wise to us. Now when we call him he
just ignores us and continues typing."

- Steven Wright

On Jan 11, 12:29*pm, "Pros Pere" wrote:
"Pros Pere" wrote in message

g.com...





Darla left this lying around, and I don't even know if she completed it..
Here it is anyway:

* --------------------- ****** *---------------------

YOU were once a single cell! just a little, tiny one-celled creature!

You were created in one of your mother's two ovaries; you fearlessly
headed through her fallopian tube and down toward her uterus.

And you were very lucky! because the previous month, indeed the previous
many months, a very large number of your potential brothers and sisters
made this same journey and, for them, their promising odyssey ended very
differently.

Not YOU! no, you were found by thousands upon thousands of your father's
EXTREMELY aggressive (assertive?) sperm cells, all wanting to be the very
first to penetrate your cell wall.

Maybe you've been fortunate enough to have seen this on your TV?
There you saw a relatively huge human egg cell with hundreds and thousands
of little sperm cells digging in, their long tails flashing here and
there.
Remember that this was a two-dimensional rendering, and YOU were a
three-dimensional spherical cell, so those little sperm cells were ALL
OVER your cell membrane, digging, digging, digging, digging.

And FINALLY one sperm cell breaks through!
(That sperm cell was ALSO you!)
Well! you don't need any more of those sperm cells, so you INSTANTLY
strengthen your cell membrane, and all those many OTHER sperm cells are
stuck.
Their little, long tails keep wagging for a time, but soon they are all
dead and stuck in your cell membrane.
Whatever nutrients they have are eventually absorbed by you.

And what of the single sperm cell that made it inside you?
It swims toward your "nucleus", your BUSY CENTER where all your DNA
resides.
The sperm cell is absorbed by your nucleus and your DNA combines with the
sperm cell's DNA to make you a complete human cell.
The DNA from the sperm cell contains a little "chromosome" that will
determine whether you are a girl or a boy!

LUCKY, LUCKY YOU !

First, your luck was really great because for a long time, perhaps a very
long time, your mother passed hundreds of egg cells similar to you but all
still different, and all those egg cells, unfertilised, after they braved
the fallopian tube and uterus, were washed away and died.
Then, your awesome GOOD FORTUNE continued because your sperm cell, the
most assertive of all those thousands and thousands of similar sperm cells
(but all different from each other), your single sperm cell entered your
egg cell and fertilised you, made you whole.

You attached yourself to the uterine wall and began to feed, first on the
nutrient blood that had amassed for weeks.
As you feed you grow.
You divide into two cells, then four cells, then eight; you grow and grow,
and you begin to take the form of an embryo.
For weeks you grow, eventually taking the form of a fetus.
After several months you are fearlessly ready to exit your mother's womb
and are "born".

Now, next we'll go back to that fascinating part of your journey that came
JUST BEFORE you left your mother's egg-producing ovary.
And we'll also retrace the "footsteps" of your father sperm, the one that
made it, the one that was born in your father's testes, who swam and swam
as hard as it could, dug deeper and deeper into your cell membrane and
made it into the inner sanctuary of your first single egg cell.
Maybe we'll find out some interesting things about how YOUR egg cell and
YOUR sperm cell were first manufactured?

Did I mention that, with few exceptions, YOU were born completely devoid
of FEAR?
Yes, some of your DNA contains information about certain things your
species has learned to RESPECT, but not fear.
YOU were BORN FEARLESS !

--
**** the Proz (well, actually Darla)
Fear Impedes Progress!
Fight and Defeat Fear!

Found another note from Darla about this:

Knowing some of you quite well, you will find endless humor in all this.
But isn't it fascinating!
Like a little acorn that grows into the giant oak tree, or the first
molecule of iron oxide on a crowbar that grows and reddens and eventually
turns the crowbar to dust. *G

Those of you who are interested will find all the information you need about
what happens in the testes and in the ovaries that results in the
manufacture of the two cells, sperm and egg, that you once were.
I'm called away, now, and when I return, perhaps we can discuss that little
bit of info that your scientists have found, and then we can build on that.