Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Darwinbish

Stress-free ankle biting vs camels castrated painlessly
The answer to question 3 may be seen in context by reference to the opening of Bernard E. Rollin's book, "The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness Animal Pain and Science", relating how an old wise man explained painless camel castration to a young camel-owner: The old wise man said, "This is a male camel.   It is a young animal, and as it grows and gets older, this animal will get unruly.    It would be to your advantage to painlessly castrate this male camel."

The young man asked, "How do I accomplish this, O wise one?"

The wise man replied, "You take two large stones, hold one in each hand,   place the testicles between them, and bring the stones sharply together."

"But surely this will cause severe pain", said the astonished young man.

"Not if you are careful to keep your thumbs out of the way", replied the wise man. HTH --RexxS (talk) 22:08, 15 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes. See this for more on the topic. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:14, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

One fairly important point
There is not nearly enough pointless talkpage discussion, veering wildly off topic and undercooked ham is a health hazard. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:47, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed. This should help restore the balance. --RexxS (talk) 23:03, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Eggs go with ham and sometimes have little ankles inside. Gwen Gale (talk) 10:23, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ham is also traditional in New Zealand for dinner on 25 December although many have Turkey (bird) these days. This year we're having both at my sister's, luckily her anklebiters are fairly well controlled. Kiore (talk) 18:26, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Request extension
As the holiday season has obviously interfered with editors' opportunities to voice their opinion on the candidate and teh RfA process (otherwise there would obviously be many hundreds moah support votes by now), I propose we ask a 'crat to allow an postponement of the closure until at least the end of the Carboniferous. —Jack's left sock (talk) 01:14, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Way ahead of you... if that's the way to put it. I just asked a crat, User:X!, to close it (it makes me nervous to have Pod's socks misusing process all over the place, see —I wish the whole clan would just shut up), but he said it ought to stay open longer... and supported. So it looks like we're in for another geological era or two. Bishonen | talk 02:43, 2 January 2011 (UTC).

Final appeal
Per Mackensen, Wikipedia needs admins with gumption. Bishzilla has obviously mislaid hers. I have been indefatiguably grooming myself for being such an admin. See here my latest exploit: growing huge through the power of hypnotism! (Weenie Darwinfish twin shown for comparison.) So how about it, people? Come on, roll up, support, close, and gimme the tools! [ ''The darwinbish falls to filing her sharp little teeth. Does she really need more tools? Bishonen ''.]  darwin bish  BITE 07:48, 25 October 2011 (UTC).