From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7433 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 16:57:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: Talk Amongst Yourselves Received: (qmail 7306 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 16:57:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 16:57:25 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id DB4D913CA0A; Fri, 20 May 2005 12:57:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:57:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Talk Amongst Yourselves Subject: Re: Hippos Message-ID: <20050520165724.GC4816@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Talk Amongst Yourselves References: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F09DA6F3@pauex2ku08.agere.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 05:46:54PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >----Original Message---- >>From: Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) >>Sent: 20 May 2005 17:39 > >> Hippo anecdote: >>I was the "mystery reader" for my son's kindergarten class this week >>and the first book I read happened to contain a picture of a hippo. My >>son blurts out that "hippos are dangerous" which I had to confirm >>(while discouraging such outbursts). >> >>I may be mistaken, but I think the other students and the teacher >>looked at us both a bit funny after hearing that we considered hippos >>dangerous. >> >>Sometimes too much knowledge is not a good thing. :-) > >Rather than _explain_ that hippos are dangerous, what you should have >done was *demonstrated* that hippos are dangerous. > >Dropping one on somebody from a very great height is usually a >sufficiently effective demonstration of this fact to convince even the >most hardened of skeptics... :) Dropping one on somebody is often hard to arrange. What gets me is when they hide in dark corners and then lunge out at you unexpectedly. Hippos are really masters of terror. cgf