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- From: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: BDI On Board
- Message-ID: <39816@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 10:19:29 GMT
- References: <39563@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Sender: nnews@dcs.ed.ac.uk
- Reply-To: pwg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Goldberg)
- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- In article <39563@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al
- Crawford) writes:
- >Hmmm, suspiciously familiar looking subject line, am I recycling?
- >
- >Anyway, I'm sure the topic of this peeve has come up before - those "Baby
- >On Board" diamonds people hang in the rear windows of their cars.
- [...]
-
- I saw a good cartoon in a back issue of Private Eye recently. It
- depicted a driver making obscene gestures at other drivers and
- generally conforming to the BDI driver stereotype, with a sticker in
- his back windscreen saying "Driver who acts like there's a baby on
- board".
-
- >It's always puzzled me just how they *know* these little gems of
- >information like "Oh, a baby is capable of withstanding much higher
- >G-forces than an adult"? Do they have a big lab somewhere where they
- >destruct test toddlers by firing them with an air cannon at walls or
- >something? "18-month toddler, acceleration 25g, terminal velocity 300m/s.
- >Target material - granite. Testing!"
-
- You obviously read the wrong newspapers. There are plenty of stories
- in the tabloids of the form "Toddler falls out of ninth floor window
- onto concrete - and survives". I think the observations have been made
- without recourse to experimental test, courtesy of those excessive
- numbers of parents who don't take seriously the task of looking after
- their offspring.
-
- Paul.
-
-
- Voltaire to Rousseau, on reading Rousseau's "Ode a la Poste'rite'":
- "Mon ami, voila une lettre qui ne sera jamais recue a son addresse"
-