Christ but I hate this place.............Before the 'Cat I had some number of friends but this strange place has given me so very many more, folks I value in my life.................I have no idea how many and I'm not going to count but Rowan was yet another wonderful part of this place, a fully evolved personality of great intelligence and humor......something that runs through here like a river. Had I never known him here I wouldn't be sitting here saddened and tearful at his loss.

Thanks Rowan for being here and sharing your wisdom, compassion, and your humor. We've got examples already of the first two so here's an example of the last:

Many biology students are amazed to learn they have tastebuds in their anus. Aside from the usual canard about what their elders think of teenagers' tastes the story is that the lining of both ends of the alimentary canal is ectodermal in origin and thus rich in nerve endings. In the mouth we call them tastebuds but in the anus, even though they perform the same function (fireily recording the passage of last night's curry as well as detecting the differences between solid, liquid and gas phases and thus allowing farts but nothing else to pass). Good taste prevents us from calling them tastebuds.


Spaw