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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 12:56 PM
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Hathaway to Play Kurt's Gay Aunt
Anne Hathaway will get her wish.

Glee creator Ryan Murphy confirmed at Sunday’s Golden Globes that he had finalized a deal that night for Anne Hathaway to guest star on the show.

“She's already created ,” he said. “She wants to play the lesbian aunt of Chris Colfer. Because everyone needs a lesbian aunt."

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/01/17/Anne_Hathaway_to_Play_Kurts_Gay_Aunt_on_Glee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AdvocatecomDailyNews+%28Advocate.com+Daily+News%29&utm_content=FaceBook

I thought everyone needed a gay uncle, not a lesbian aunt :evilgrin:

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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-11 01:07 PM
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1. Are you sure it's not a lesbian ANT?
Okay, maybe they're not technically "lesbians," but read on...

The complete asexuality of a widespread fungus-gardening ant, the only ant species in the world known to have dispensed with males entirely, has been confirmed by a team of Texas and Brazilian researchers.

Most social insects—the wasps, ants and bees—are relatively used to daily life without males. Their colonies are well run by swarms of sterile sisters lorded over by an egg-laying queen. But, eventually, all social insect species have the ability to produce a crop of males who go forth in the world to fertilize new queens and propagate.

Queens of the ant
Mycocepurus smithii reproduce without fertilization and males appear to be completely absent, report Christian Rabeling, Ulrich Mueller and their Brazilian colleagues in PLoS ONE this week.

"Animals that are completely asexual are relatively rare, which makes this is a very interesting ant," says Rabeling, an ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin. "Asexual species don't mix their genes through recombination, so you expect harmful mutations to accumulate over time and for the species to go extinct more quickly than others. They don't generally persist for very long over evolutionary time."


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825203339.htm
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