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Guys are Guys, Regardless of Species

16 Friday Mar 2012

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alcohol, females, fruit flies, rejected

I feel your pain, my little winged brother:

“They were young males on the make, and they struck out not once, not twice, but a dozen times with a group of attractive females hovering nearby. So they did what so many men do after being repeatedly rejected: they got drunk, using alcohol as a balm for unfulfilled desire.

Fruit flies apparently self-medicate just like many humans do, drowning their sorrows or frustrations for some of the same reasons, scientists reported Thursday.

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Fruit flies as a rule will, like many humans, develop a taste for alcohol and, in time, a preference for the 15 percent solution. But the rejected flies drank a lot more on average, supping from the spiked mixture about 70 percent of the time, compared with about 50 percent for their sexually sated peers.

The researchers conducted several additional experiments to rule out other explanations. The flies were apparently using the alcohol as a way to compensate for their frustrated desire.”

FYI, fruit fly. A little country music also helps:

A bug in his margarita? Must have been a fruit fly.

“People Got To Be Free”

28 Sunday Feb 2010

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People Got To Be Free, The Rascals

The Rascals, 1968:

A Little Night Music: The Pointer Sisters

10 Wednesday Feb 2010

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Fairytale, The Pointer Sisters

Fairytale, a song that reached #13 on the pop charts and #37 on the country charts in 1974, and for which the Pointers won 2 Country Music Grammys

A Little Night Music: Michael Buble

07 Sunday Feb 2010

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Kissing a Fool, Michael Buble

Kissing A Fool.

A Little Night Music: The Eagles

06 Saturday Feb 2010

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Desperado, The Eagles

A Little Night Music: Elton John

01 Monday Feb 2010

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Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me, Elton John

Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, from 1977.

A Little Night Music: The Temptations

31 Sunday Jan 2010

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Ain't Too Proud To Beg, David Ruffin, The Temptations

From 1966, Ain’t Too Proud To Beg. Featuring The Voice, the great David Ruffin.

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