A-bad-ad-hoc-theory

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a-bad-ad-hoc-theory

Title text: Parsimony is for wimps.

Votey

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/ noticed that squirrels bury far more acorns

Than they can ever dig up.

The common hypothesis is that burying many acorns is less energetically expensive than burying

I have a

Better theory

Them in specific places and remembering

Acorns evolved to look like the heads of dead

Squirrels.

When the acorn falls, the squirrel is so affronted, it buries the "head' immediately

But, no sooner has he buried the gruesome thing than another falls nearby.

As more fall, the squirrel struggles in vain

To bury them as fast as possible.

By the time spring is over many acorns have been buried and the squirrel has been driven beyond the pale of sanity.

The result is twofold

The tree is able to reproduce since its seeds have been sown everywhere

The squirrel, who is now "nuts" finds sustenance during winter by digging up the skulls of the dead, and eating their brains

I will now put a whole bunch of fourteenth order differential equations on the projector, which will make you afraid to look stupid by

Any questions?

Asking questions

I will now transmit my results to all pop science websites.

sigh?

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The "nuts" joke made it all worth it.

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