From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: A new battleground
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:36:56 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center

In article <1992Nov11.144627.14340@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> lalford@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu 
writes:

}The most commonly seen bat in North Queensland is the flying fox or fruit 
}bat.  They do have mouths large enough to bite a human.  

Of course, in a classic case of omission, what isn't mentioned is that 
your chances of being bitten by a "flying fox," however fierce the 
name, is somewhat less than having a bald eagle drop a fish on your 
face while mountain climbing.

}They also have the 
}*appalling* habit of landing on your fruit trees, taking three bites of an 
}unripe fruit (mangoes frequently) and then doing the same to another fruit 
}on the tree.  The fruit bitten will rot before it ripens. 

I lived under a mango tree for a while in Hawaii, and believe me, these
are some of the most disgusting trees in the world.  I don't think that
mangoes ever get ripe -- they just go from immature to rotten all in 
one jump.  Besides, I get a rash if I eat mangoes.  When these bats
first showed up, shepards quaked by night and a star rose in the east.
Wise people came to see them and bring them gifts.

}Most frogs are vegetarian then carnivorous.  Tapoles eat algae and other 
}things they can scrap off rocks in a stream.  Frogs eat insects, for the 
}most part, though I believe there is at least one large species of frog in 
}South America that can eat bats.

It is a known fact that any bat could eat a frog justlikethat, but
they display a little taste and choose not to.

}Bats come in brown, ranging from a pale brown, to a very dark brown, but 
}all brown.  How dull can you get?

Bats also come in gr[ea]y too.  I think it is rather dishonest to 
not mention that.  Bats don't have to have colorful bodies like some
frogs do, bats have very colorful personalities, unlike frogs.

}Due to the long-term lack of handsome princes (or even beautiful 
}princesses) in the modern world, I doubt that destroying the frog as you it 
}is a problem.  Bat might be easier to spell, but it is also confused with 
}certain implements used to play games (i.e. the cricket bat and the 
}baseball bat.)  Frog only means frog.

I'm surprised you didn't mention brick-a-bat, or how about "batting
your eyelashes"?  But "bat" is clearly superior in the Alphabetical
Ordering of the Universe.  

}Bats don't think.  They just fly around with their mouths open.

At least bats can fly, frogs just think they can.  Watch them sometime.
Frogs jump a lot, but never really fly.  Bats, on the other hand,
actually fly.  Flying is much closer to g[G](h)od(d)[ess] than jumping,
no matter how high you try to jump (or climb trees, for the tree frogs
in the bunch).  And I'll bet you never saw "bat legs" on the menu in a
restaurant.  You can't say the same for (shudder) frogs.

Oh, just in keeping with this group, bats can have abortions, although
they don't commonly, whereas frogs cannot.

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