From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27026 invoked by alias); 20 May 2005 16:47:12 -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 26951 invoked from network); 20 May 2005 16:47:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2005 16:47:05 -0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 20 May 2005 17:46:53 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'i need a new umbrella'" Subject: RE: Hippos Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:54:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F09DA6F3@pauex2ku08.agere.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 May 2005 16:46:53.0293 (UTC) FILETIME=[86AEB1D0:01C55D5B] X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 ----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... :) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....