On Mon, 17 May 2004 16:52:54 -0700 (PDT), Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the regular features of a late-night program > (MadTV?) was commercials for the dating service
Yes - > "Lowered Expectations." <hums along with the ditty> lowered expectations..., also starts humming. > Lo and behold: > > http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/87/99315.htm?printing=true ...> > "It's not about settling for less; it's realizing that > sometimes, 'less' occurs and your expectations should > reflect how to deal with it accordingly," McNulty > tells WebMD. "But unrealistic expectations can go both > ways. People can be unrealistically negative, as well. > If they expect things to be bad, when they are > actually good, they don't take advantage of that. So > lowering expectations is not good for everyone..." > > Debbi > who subscribes to the 'gourami fish theory' of mating > ???? That I would have to see ;-) Breeding gouramis can be a tricky issue though, as they can be aggressive towards and even kill the females. Usually, the female is allowed to settle into the tank first so that she adjusts without stress, and the male introduced later in a contained "floater", so that they can watch each other but have no contact. Kinky This usually stimulates him to display and make bubbles, and her to go into "heat", producing eggs (she will get plump, dull vertical stripes will get darker on her sides, and a small egg will appear to block her vent). Kinky and Alien If she is ready to mate and the male is not too aggressive in his pursuits (some males are just not mateable at all because they will beat up even females are responsive), Males can be bastards the two will embrace, almost in a death-like trance, under the bubblenest. After the female releases eggs and the male fertilizes them, he will pick the eggs up one-by-one in his mouth and deposit them into the nest. Real Kinky Unless you mean kissing gouramis, who do not build a bubble nest but just just start kissing along each others sides and get excited until thousands of sticky eggs are released and then fertized all over the tank. Messy, but if it was good for you... Perhaps this subscription to the "gourami fish theory of mating" relates to your lowered expectations? Gary - "fishy" maru
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