From: One Angry User <angry@lusers.org>
To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Hippos
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0505201255460.25060@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SERRANOOdutox7nyeKz000000aa@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:
> ----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... :)
And, of course, even the children would understand the old parable about
hippos' poor vision.
OAU
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-20 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-20 16:47 Hippos Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-05-20 16:54 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 16:57 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-05-20 17:04 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:09 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-05-20 17:21 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:24 ` Hippos Igor Pechtchanski
2005-05-20 17:25 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-05-20 17:32 ` Hippos Igor Pechtchanski
2005-05-20 17:02 ` One Angry User [this message]
2005-06-07 14:13 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 14:51 ` Hippos Corinna Vinschen
2005-06-07 16:10 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-06-07 17:59 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 18:16 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2005-06-07 18:37 ` Hippos zzapper
2005-06-07 18:46 ` Hippos One Angry User
2005-06-07 21:12 ` Hippos Christopher Faylor
2005-06-08 12:47 ` Hippos Dave Korn
2006-12-01 19:00 Hippos Lev Bishop
2006-12-02 2:37 ` Hippos Igor Peshansky
2006-12-02 3:18 ` Hippos Eric Blake
2008-05-30 16:57 Hippos Dave Korn
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