(February 16, 2014 at 4:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My parents had seven children - I have five brothers and one sister. It honestly never, ever occurred to me (and I don't think to any of my siblings) that Mum or Da might favour one over the others. We were all loved consistently, punished as needed, and encouraged in whatever we attempted.
As far as favoured parents go, I was MUCH closer to Da than to Mum. Don't get me wrong; I love my mother dearly, and I hope she's with us for many years to come. But my father was not only the best man I've ever known, he was also the best man I'd ever heard of.
Boru
That sounds a lot like my family (four brothers, two sisters), except that my father died when I was young, and my mother raised all seven of us essentially on her own. Like your dad, my mother was not only the best woman I've ever known, she was the best woman I've ever heard of.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
