From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12570 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 17:30:54 -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 12304 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 17:30:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 17:30:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4KHUcW3028292 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 13:30:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:32:00 -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/msg00254.txt.bz2 On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: Igor Pechtchanski > >Sent: 20 May 2005 18:22 > > > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> > >> 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 > > Actually, I reckon you'd find that very _few_ kids these days have seen > Fantasia. OTOH quite a lot of grown adults of *our* age may well have done > so .... Which is probably what prompted the whole hippo discussion anyway. The subconscious has weird ways of getting back at you. 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