From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12544 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 17:02:34 -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 12510 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 17:02:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 17:02:28 -0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 20 May 2005 18:02:27 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'... and it's pretty bad when they step on your feet, too ...'" Subject: RE: Hippos Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:04:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050520165724.GC4816@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 May 2005 17:02:27.0399 (UTC) FILETIME=[B373F570:01C55D5D] X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 ----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? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....