From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2833 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 17:21:50 -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 2763 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 17:21:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 17:21:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4KHLeW3027490 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 13:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:24:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: Talk Amongst Yourselves To: Talk Amongst Yourselves Subject: RE: Hippos In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Christopher Faylor > >Sent: 20 May 2005 17:57 > > > 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 > > What scares me even more is when they do ballet. > Have you ever seen a hippo in a tu-tu? Most kids have. Disney's "Fantasia"... Childhood trauma, and all that... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT