I didn't tag you as a Herpetologist there Dr. L. I should with 20-20 hindsight have known that you were cold-blooded naturally, and thus in your own twisted way kin-interested:)

You are walking thru the desert and you come across a turtle on its back. It cant roll over and you are not helping it.... Why?

Tortoise, he makes the turtle reference because the subject didnt know what a tortoise was.

I think its more to do with the fact that the limb positioning indicates the turtle is struggling, though I suppose Lecter could be a Herpetologist.

Lecter... I did bow out, does not mean I like Ladron any better than before.

I've just owned more than my fair share of Terrapene Carolina carolina. That one looks to be about to flip itself back over.

NINNY!!! NINNY NINNY NINNY!!!

That's how it's done, right?

sigh and none remembers bladerunner.....

Ryan, you sound rather bitter. Did you lose your stress ball?

The turtle is neither alive nor dead. It is-

ZOMBIE TURTLE

Pak, what do you mean no one remembers Blade Runner? I challenge you!

"You are walking thru the desert and you come across a turtle on its back. It cant roll over and you are not helping it.... Why?"

Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of the sudden-
Leon: Is this the test now?
Holden: Yes. You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down-
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to be by yourself, who knows? You look down and you see a tortoise, Leon, it's crawling towards you-
Leon: Tortoise, what's that?
Holden: Know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course.
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle -- But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden, or do they write them down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.
Leon: What do you mean I'm not helping?

The turtle is neither alive nor dead. It is-

SCHRODINGER'S TURTLE

The Copenhagen interpretation of a turtle? Or is it the random event?

Nice cut and paste there......

But points for the original post PaKettle. I smiled:) Awesome movie!!!

The turtle has amazing curative powers when applied topically.

Before viagra here was rhino horn.......

Try " I am the fulcrum, the giver and the taker " -

Dune, right?

take the spice you shall become the quixarts hatarac

Ah yes the spice must flow......

Try-
"I'd like to live just long enough to see them cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come at too high a price."

Babylon 5, Londo's sidekick. Vier? Veir? Not sure how to spell it.

Try-
"Man is separated from heaven only by that which he will not ramp."

Uh Dr McNinja?