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From: mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( )
Subject: Re: Latin
Keywords: Oh god, not again
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:06:54 GMT

In article <ano.715336532@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:
	[Books deleted]

>The last one is the "Malleus Maleficarum". Can anyone translate
>that? (Incidently, a "Compendium Maleficarum" appears in "They
>Came And Ate Us. (Armageddon II: The B-movie)" by Robert Rankin.)

	I don't know the exact translation for "Malleus Maleficarum," but
(unlike the previous book titles), this one is gut-turningly real.
	The Malleus Maleficarum is a textbook for witch-hunters.  It includes
such useful and interesting information as identifying them, questioning
them, and killing them.
Methods of witch identification included the below:

Throw a suspected witch into a lake with rocks tied around her feet.  If she 
doesn't drown, she's a witch and should be burned, hung, or crushed.  If 
she drowns, she's innocent.  She might be dead, but at least she died and
went to Heaven as a martyr in the war against evil.

	No, that isn't a joke.  Those witch-hunters might have been long
on piety, but were a bit short on common sense.

	Malleus Maleficarum is highly recommended reading for anyone who is
interested in the subject of human irrationality.  The book is marvelously
sensible, within its own distorted frame of reference.

><<   Adrian Ogden   _ . _ _   _ . _ _   _ _ . .   ano@uk.ac.rdg.cs.csres   >>
>
>                   "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat."

-- 
Michael Lucas				mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu
I keep hearing that Jesus Christ is coming, but nobody knows his tour dates.
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:40:43 GMT

In article <BtyMDA.CuK@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>Also, I don't believe the `curious behaviour of the dog in the night-time'
>occurs in "The Hound of the Baskervilles" - I am pretty sure it is from
>a different story whose title currently escapes me - the one involving
>injections of monkey (sorry, ape :-) serum as a fountain of youth.

Both wrong. It's from "Silver Blaze", the first story in "The Memoirs of
Sherlock Holmes" (which ends in Holmes apparent death).

The more I read the Holmes stories the more and more obvious it is to me
that Holmes was a complete charlatan. His methods are more often than not
founded on pseudoscience, bigotry, and prejudice. But he so frequently
came to the right conclusion based in false evidence...

I'm sure that Holmes was really the person he described as "Moriarty", and
Moriarty never actually existed. The whole detective agency scheme was to
hide his criminal activities from his smarter older brother, and to wipe
out competition in the London underworld.
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
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Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 04:39:04 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>- [p. 193] "1ST WITCHE: He's late.  (Pause)"
>  Refers to Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot".

It seemed very Harold Pinterish to me - or does he just use a similar
style?

>- [p. 117] Ptraci. Should be pronounced with a silent 'p', of course.
>  [Are there really people out there who did not get this one?]

What's so funny about the name 'Traci'?

Ptraci (with a pronounced P) always reminded me of the Formula 1
driver Patrese. :-)

>- [p. 132] Film studio names. Untied Alchemists is United Artists. Fir Wood 
>  Studios is Pine Tree Studios [?]. Microlithic Pictures is [Anybody?]. Terry 
>  says: "I've already gone electronically hoarse explaining that Floating 
>  Bladder Productions was just picked out of the air [...]"

Century of the Fruitbat - Twentieth Century Fox. I know it's obvious
but it should be added in for completeness.

-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz    or | A beagle a day keeps        
Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz | the doctor at bay.
 Technical Writer | 		      Vote MMP!
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Subject: Re: Sharon and Tracy
From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:17:15 GMT
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <ano.715595785@reading> ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden) writes:

   one of whom is called "Red Scharron". (or was it Sharryn? Something
   like that anyway.)

Your memory is perfect.  I have the copy in front of me, and it says
	where the adventuresses Herrena the Henna-Haired
	Harridan, Red Scharron and Diome, Witch of the
	Night, were meeting for some girl talk and a game
	of canasta

Nat.
(gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz -- Nathan Torkington -- is the electronic text and
 MS-DOS archivist for the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Malleus Maleficarum
Keywords: Oh god, not again
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:01:38 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Sep1.150654.1811@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mwlucas@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( ) writes:
<	The Malleus Maleficarum is a textbook for witch-hunters.  It includes

<Throw a suspected witch into a lake with rocks tied around her feet.  If she 
<doesn't drown, she's a witch and should be burned, hung, or crushed.  If 
<she drowns, she's innocent.  She might be dead, but at least she died and
<went to Heaven as a martyr in the war against evil.

"Yes, I am afraid trolls do behave like that, even those with only one
head each."  -- J.R.R. Tolkien

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I still thing it's garbage, but beautifully cooked."   --  TP on TP
From: d0chris@dtek.chalmers.se (Christer Borang)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Pratchett in Sweden
Date: 1 Sep 92 01:17:56 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

vader@meryl.csd.uu.se (]ke Eldberg) writes:

>Terry Pratchetts books are very popular in Sweden, and one has even
>been translated (I believe it was Guards! Guards!).

I've only seen 'The colour of magic' and 'The light fantastique (sp?)'
translated...Guards Guards might exist too, though. Anyhow, the translation
looses a lot...like Rincewind being called Rensvind.

[ zzzaaaap ]

>This piece of worthless information was brought to you from
>Ake Eldberg in Uppsala, Sweden (a small country in northern
>Europe, you know -- between the Atlantic ocean and Russia.)

//Christer aka Mort on various muds.
--
Det finns inget som g|r kvinnor s} vackra som alkohol och st{ngningsdags...
From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: I'll be Back... (don't bother)
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:28:04 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <1992Aug25.095500.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, cjenkinsn@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> Phil Anderson (hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz) writes :
>>
>>  > Well, while we're into Nationalist jokes, I've noticed there
>>  > seems to be an awfully large number of New Zealanders posting
>>  > here, so..... baaa.
>>
>>There is nothing awful about a large number of NZers.
>> Awe-inspiring perhaps...
> 
> 
>    Hang on a minute ! Shouldn't that read "Ewe inspiring" ?
> 
Nice one!

Everybody sing...

It's just not fair but I don't care
It's just not fair but I don't care
As long as we beat
As long as we beat
As long as we beat
NEW ZEALAND!!
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: I'll be Back... (don't bother)
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:31:18 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <714745422snx@sloth.equinox.gen.nz> hairy@sloth.equinox.gen.nz (Phil Anderson) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug25.095500.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> cjenkinsn@cc.curtin.edu.au 
>writes:
>
>  > >There is nothing awful about a large number of NZers.
>  > > Awe-inspiring perhaps...
>  > 
>  >    Hang on a minute ! Shouldn't that read "Ewe inspiring" ?
>
>The prospect of a thread of sheep puns is indeed a terrible one. But I fear I 
>have not the wool-power to resist...

Thats just too baaad. I herd some really good ones recently, but
I guess we mutton't do this. 

Simon















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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:14:46 GMT

kcc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Ken Cox) writes:

> PS:  Is anyone compiling a Librarian/English dictionary?

Don't count on *me* for that one. I mean, sure, the librarian's dialogue
(such as it is) is very funny, but it is of course very context-dependent,
and compiling a list of it seems to me truly not very interesting. I 
could be wrong...

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Subject: Re: Only You Can Save Mankind <reviewish type spoilers?>
Originator: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:07:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.031805.2893@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
 mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu (Fox) writes:
>and the general idea of a computer game being used in order to
>control reality for an entire race reminded me of God Game by
>Reverand Green.

That would be Father Andrew M. Greeley, who's been dabbling in science
fiction and fantasy for a while now (with a decidedly Catholic bent),
and doing a pretty good job.  _God Game_ is a fun read, and the
protagonist's affection for computers (drawn, one suspects, from the
author's experiences) provides a minimal "link" to a.f.p, enough that
I don't feel guilty posting :-).

What I still think of as his best book is _The Magic Cup_, loosely
based on the Irish roots of the Arthurian legends.  Greeley manages to
sneak the obligatory moral lessons into the story without disturbing
the narrative, making for an "earthy-but-wholesome" take on Arthur and
the Grail legend.  Well-written and entertaining.


			"The suspect was clearly an unbalanced
			 psycho... so many kids today are.  I suspect
			 he was a Satanist too, a belief he probably
			 picked up by reading those comic books."
-- 
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
From: cfiddyme@neumann.une.edu.au (Chris Fiddyment)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Australian dates.
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:33:01 GMT


  How much later does TP stuff come out in Australia. Will the Truckers
  movie get here? If so when.

           Thanks,  Chris

* Chris Fiddyment.             |   I never promised anybody *
* cfiddyme@neumann.une.edu.au  |   anything.   Kermit.      *
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From: ins450m@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (T.F. Eccles)
Subject: Re: I'm leaving... 
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:47:07 GMT

tpratchett@cix.compulink.co.uk (Terry Pratchett) writes:

>Off to Florida tomorrow, hurricanes permitting.  So this is my last posting.
Take a kite. :)

>Re: Sodomy non sapiens.  I think it _sounds_ better that 'cognito', although
>it's debateable.  The point about dog Latin, like Nil Illegitimo Carborundum,
>is that it should be understandable by people who know no Latin at all
>(Frabricate Diem, Punc).  The motto of Unseen University is: Nunc visium,
>nunc invisium (Now you see it, now you don't).  In Lords and Ladies Nanny Ogg
>serenades Casanunda with a foreign song called Il Porcupino nil Sodomy Est;
>I've tested it out on a few audiences, and...well, it works.  Let's face it,
>all I need is that initial laugh.

Oh no, not more porcupines. About the 'latin' quote - I know, I
was trying to stir up a thread. Sigh. Oh well. 
("English humour"
"African silence")


>'There are NO inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocaasionally, however,
>there are alternate pasts'.
*chuckle*

Eccles
From: pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk (Philippa Hogben)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: Need London bookstore address.
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:09:01 GMT
Organization: cam.eng

tmca@Wairau.as.utexas.edu (Tim Abbott) writes:

>In article <81112@bcsaic.boeing.com> msk@espresso.boeing.com writes:
>>Say, could any of you Londoners send me the mailing address of Foyle's
>>bookstore on Charing Cross?  It'd be much appreciated.

>I'd be surpised if:

>Foyle's Bookstore
>Charing Cross
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Try Charing Cross _Road_  (Don't know what number though.)

>London


That should work. The PO often ignores post codes completely - even
though it keeps campagning to get everybody to use them.


Philippa

--
Philippa Hogben   pjh@eng.cam.ac.uk  (Reverse if mailing from Janet)
Any mistakes are mine, all mnie.

I am not a .sig virus. I am a free bug. 
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From: markh@mks.com (Mark Haygarth)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:40:25 GMT

In article <BtyMDA.CuK@apollo.hp.com> johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>In article <annotated-pratchett_715386709@ph.tn.tudelft.nl> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>>  improbable, must be the truth. [...] There was also the curious incident of 
>>  the orangutan in the night-time ..."
>>  This paraphrases Sherlock Holmes, and refers to "The Hound Of The 
>>  Baskervilles" [and perhaps also to Edgar Allan Poe. Terry??].
>
>a different story whose title currently escapes me - the one involving
>injections of monkey (sorry, ape :-) serum as a fountain of youth.


Actually, the "curious incident..." quote is from 'Silver Blaze', the
story about the  horse-napping of a racing thouroughbred, and  refers
to the fact  that the guard dog does not bark when the horse  is taken
from its stall.  To find out why not, read the story.

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From: erhellfr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Edgar Hellfritsch)
Subject: Re: Dog latin
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:22:26 GMT

snh@Lise.Unit.NO (St}le Norman Halvorsen) writes:
>All right, I give up on these latin sentences.
>If I'd studied medicine,I might have translated 
>them myself, but I didn't, and I can't.

>Si tacuises philosophus mancisses
If you had kept your mouth shut you'd have stayed philosopher.

Seven years of Latin and I can only remember enough to translate a single one
of all those sentences. Phew!!!

Edgar
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Subject: Re: explaining things
From: Michael.Norrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Michael Norrish)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:18:37 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Victoria Uni. of Wellington, NZ.

>>>>> On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:11:17 GMT, spencer@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
>>>>> (S. Spencer Sun) said:

Spencer> In article <EeYaLOa00WB5Q41mx7@andrew.cmu.edu>,
Spencer> jl3j+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Robert Leavitt) writes:

>h0sagg@gdt.bath.ac.uk (Simon Granville) says:
> > JApanese names are always portrayed in some form of monosyllablic
> > version (unlike Si-mon, things like Cho, Hsu, Lao etc)
>
>BUZZ.  Sorry next contestant.
>
>Chinese names may tend to be
>monsyllabic (eg. Mao Tse Tung and Lao Tse), but Japanese names lean in
>the other direction.

Spencer> Chinese names more than tend to, they ARE monosyllabic.
Spencer> There ARE no polysyllabic words in the Chinese language.

Though Mandarin speakers may tell you that each character corresponds
to "just one syllable", I think you'll find that there are characters
out there that are pronounced as two syllables. There's pian and bian,
(using pinyin), for a start.

Mao itself is pretty borderline. Perhaps you could call it a
diphthong, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone out there pronounced
it as two syllables.

Michael - "This whole thing's getting a bit silla anyway."



--
--- Michael Norrish  -------------------- mnorrish@comp.vuw.ac.nz ---

       "I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know 
           how to do it, and that is the important thing."
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From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Reply-To: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:05:52 GMT

Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes:

> No. He was not born in a handbag but *found* in a handbag.

Oops, my mistake (I had noticed the error but I forgot to change it,
darn)

> >  Refers to the quote "Can't act. Can't sing. Can dance a little" about
> >  Fred Astaire [But who said this??]
> 
> I can dig this out for you.

Yes, please...

> Note that Theda Bara is in fact an (intentional) anagram of Arab Death.

I knew that!

But I thought that if I slipped in yet more Theda Bara trivia people would
start to complain :-)
(Perhaps we need an annotation to the Annotations...)

> WITCHES ABROAD
> 
> You should perhaps elucidate the Ernest Hemingway sectiona nd explain
> about Pamplona and what cojones are!!

Unfortunately, I have never in my life read any Hemingway, so elucidation
will have to wait until I read whatever work of his is necessary for 
understanding it myself (not that I don't know what Pamplona and cojones
are, but I just thought it was funny in its own right). 
Can you give me an approprioate pointer?

> SMALL GODS
> 
> Didactylos == two fingers (as pointed out by TP in an interview in a
> magazine produced for Dillons or Waterstones)

I still don't get it. What's funny about 'two fingers'?

> >- [p. 180] The name Citron Deux-Chevaux refers to the Citroen 2CV,
> >  or deux-chevaux as it is commonly called in Europe [do Americans
> >  know about this car? Should I leave this one in?]
> 
> You perhaps point out that deux-chevaux is a misnomer as 2CV in fact
> is shourt for deux-chevron (the Citroen emblem) and has nothing to do
> with horsepower!!

I have an honest-to-God French colleague sitting next to me, who swears
you are completely mistaken about the chevron (well, actually he said it
in a much less polite way :-) business.

He says that 'CV' (pronounced chevaux, which means: "horses") is a
value that is calculated for every French car, to be subsequently used
for government taxation purposes. Larger cars have greater CV values,
but the link with actual horsepower is distant.

Since he showed me the receipt for the tax he paid on his Peugeot 205,
and it clearly says on it that that car is "5-7 CV", I tend to believe
him in this matter. Citroen merely named their car after its taxative
horsepower value, and not after their emblem.

> Please, Morris Dancing never was confined to the Cotswold region,

I hope the original author of that section is listening. I won't make
any changes myself to his text.

-- 
Leo Breebaart  (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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From: snh@Lise.Unit.NO (St}le Norman Halvorsen)
Subject: Dog latin
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 23:08:57 GMT

All right, I give up on these latin sentences.
If I'd studied medicine,I might have translated 
them myself, but I didn't, and I can't.

These lines are cut from alt.fan.pratchett, so somebody
in this group better be able to tell me what they mean.
(And what they REALLY mean as well ?)
Any help is appreciated, as I am totally lost.

Here they come :


Semper in ordure sumus, solem profundum variens

Semper in fecalum, solus altam variat

Nihil illegitemo carborundum

Nothi te numquam opprimant

Si tacuises philosophus mancisses



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From: johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v2.0
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:00:30 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

In article <leo.715514168@galaxy> leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl writes:
>johnf@apollo.hp.com (John Francis) writes:
>
>> Rjinswand is fairly obviously Dutch, not Scandinavian.  The name appears
>> to be a phonetic transliteration rather than an actual translation.
>
>"Fairly obviously Dutch" -- my left windmill :-)
>
>John is the *third* person to tell me 'Rjinswand' is Dutch. None of these
>three folks appears to have noticed my address: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl,
>which could have told them that *I* am Dutch. And believe me, 'Rjinswand' 
>does not even come close to being 'obviously Dutch', a language I 
>happen to speak eh, fairly fluently.

I assure you I *had* noticed your address.  My mistake was assuming that
you would realize I had noticed it.

Perhaps a better phrasing would have been "fairly obviously Dutch to all
except those who know better, being Dutch themselves".  You know - like
the American accents in European TV productions (and the British accents
in American shows) - unrecogniseable by those with a real American (or
British) accent, but immediately obvious to everybody else.
Remember, not all English-speakers have as excellent a command of the
subleties of the Dutch language as you do of the English language.
To most of us, the sight of a "j" immediately following an "r" bring
back vague memories that Rembrandt's full name contained something along
those lines.  That, and the "nsw", suggest Dutch-ness fairly strongly.
As at least two other people (probably more by now) have made the same
suggestion, my claim of "fairly obvious" appears to be substantiated.

-- 
John Francis                                johnf@apollo.hp.com
Seen passing on the net:  Spotted Owl - the *other* white meat!
From: garton@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Simon Garton)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: GO and Queen
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:53:17 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

>
>>Paul James (prj91@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
>>: Having read GO again this weekend, and having just seen the thread on
>>: Quenn Greatest Hits, I realised that 'Radio Ga Ga' was mentioned at
>>: one time, a track not present on the aforementioned album

the album in Crowleys car is the nebulous 'Best of Queen', which
is generally not available (unlike 'Queens Greatest Hits')
South East Asia has a vigorous tape pirating industry and they
make a lot of new compilations, and I actually have seen a best
of Queen with RadioGaGa on it in Kathmandu. Not sure what any of
this means except I went to see Tori Amos in concert last night,
and she's a pretty darn fine piano player.

Saimon
 
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Stupid birds (Small Gods spoilers)
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:44:23 GMT

In article <GNAT.92Sep1022203@kauri.kauri.vuw.ac.nz> gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
>I refuse to concede that a bird is stupid simply because it cannot
>fly.

I didn't say that these birds were stupid because they could not fly. I have
simply said that the most stupid birds I know of happen to be flightless.

>Much the same kind of situation would occur if a clan of rabbits
>suddenly turned up at your front door, carnivorous, armed to the teeth
>with carving knives, and asking to speak to someone about myxamatosis
>and "lucky rabbits feet".

I'd hand them copies of my funny-animal comics and ask if they'd pose
for sketches.
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
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