<font color="yellow">Ahh, so their lobes are not cartilage but bone ridges shielding extended brain capacity. Piercing a ferengi ear may be the equivalent of a frontal lobotomy.</font><br /><br />Well, that's exactly right. Almost all of a Ferengi's higher-level thinking utilizes neural pathways that saturate the ear lobes. These nerves extend even to the surface of the skin -- which is why a Ferengi experiences intense sexual pleasure when you caress the ear.<br /><br />Thus, when you make an especially convoluted point to a Ferengi and he/she is actually following the point, they're likely to respond, "Yeah, I hear you." <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>