27 thoughts on “Another exchange”

  4. Ask a stupid question and there you go. Very good answer and yours would be easier to answer. Eventually, you get tired.

    2. I think there are many postmenopausal women who would disagree with you. (Do men have a womenopause? Still waiting for mine.)

  6. I am really regretting not having gone last night. I had a previous commitment which I wanted to blow off but then it world have been easy for me to answer the question about when and why sex stopped.

    A few observations:
    It is time for a WEIT t-shirt. Jerry would just have to give his blessing. I am sure that there is enough talent in the WEIT community to get this done. “Every warthog you nurse, you’re giving up a lion” would have to be on it. Maybe that should be the official motto of WEIT. It should be right under the title of the website.

    Jerry needs to go on WWDTM. All the other American panelists from last night have been. Julia Sweeney was a panelist. Paul Sereno was on a year ago – on “Not My Job” – answering questions about Barney.
    http://www.npr.org/2014/02/01/267781950/not-my-job-a-dinosaur-expert-gets-quizzed-on-barney

    And Sagal will probably get Brian Cox and/or Robin Ince on the show as well.

    I assume TIMC is thrilled with this tour. All four shows are sold out (or close to it). The halls have ranged in size from 860 (NYC) to 984 (Chicago). Based on the ticket prices, the four stops will gross close to $250,000. So TIMC should more than cover its costs. And gotten material for 6-12 shows. They probably want to come back.

    I don’t know how the NYC show went. Neil deGrasse Tyson was stuck at the airport and Skyped in. Bill Nye came in his place. It sounds like the Chicago show was great. LA and SF are back to back this week – Thursday and Friday. But Chicago had the best guests.

    1. I was at the New York show. I thought it was excellent. The panelists were all entertaining. There was one interesting moment at the end of the night where Tim Daly mentioned that doubt is a key element of faith and Bill Nye pounced all over him. Nye asked him, “Faith in what? Some people have faith the Universe is only 6,000 years old.” Daly squirmed a bit and came up with some babble worthy of sophisticated theology about “faith” that we can continue making sense of the Universe through science and that there is an order to it all. Aside from that, I thought Daly had some interesting points throughout the show.

  8. Ha, ha, ha, that’s hilarious! What a perfect rejoinder!

    The kind I only think of 5 hours or so later…

  9. Ha! That reminds me of a tee I saw on a beginner parkour yesterday, as he contemplated attempting a forward flip down a height. (Duly filmed by his peers for either the autopsy or the humor of the jump.)

    “It could have been worse”.

    Which could be a comment on his expected parkour failures, or a comment on the result of his parents attempting sex….

  10. lol well, you see when a man loves a woman very very much … and then they wrap their arms around each other and contentedly go to sleep. That’s when it ends, but it starts back up again later, usually. 🙂

  12. I think Mr. Sagal appreciates a snappy rejoinder, and Jerry definitely delivered with that one. Zing!

    I saw lots of comments about “how” sex ends but not so much “why.” My amateur evolutionist submission is that once you make the attempt at procreation and get your brain chemical cookie, your selfish genes need you doing other things, like eating and, depending on the level of parental investment they require of you post-coïtus, trying not to get eaten in hopes of getting another cookie one day.

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