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Ptolly, get your mind out of the gutter! Wait, what am I saying? Revised: Ptolly, that is precisely the sort of gutter material we are hoping to cultivate. ;-)
Tracy, red wine, black clothing...what else does a girl need?
Well, I really don't know why they would want to get out of the gutter Nicky. Really, what would be the point. They would simply slide right back in again anyway.
Ptolly - unless there's a reason some of us look as happy as a dog with two dicks...
I have seen an analogy to desscribe how organisms got larger. Basically there is a wall of minimum size, and so the only way to change was upwards, away from the wall. A drunk walking down a road has a wall on one side, and as he stumbles he can move away from the wall, but never through it - so he can only move in one direction too, even if there's no advantage to falling over into the gutter...
PSD
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
Very good, PSD. The inverse of that could of course also be applied to show not how organisms got larger but how orgasms got louder. It's the not only moving in one direction part that's the key.