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- From: mrl@st-andrews.ac.uk ( Michael Ladomery)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Elephants CAN'T gallop, damn it!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.101937.9444@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 10:19:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.183247.3020@desire.wright.edu> <2832@fedfil.UUCP>
- Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.
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- In article <2832@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul21.183247.3020@desire.wright.edu>, sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
- >
- >> Ted, you have been told on numerous occasions that elephants can't gallop due
- >> to their conformation.
- >
- >Face it, Sue... you and your cohorts aren't really bright enough to be telling
- >me ANYTHING.
- >
- >Your "You have been told" refrain isn't adding anything to the conversation.
- >
- >Elephants don't gallop because they're too fricking heavy.
-
- Do you realize that your arrogance is not helping your cause one
- little bit? Your unbelievable attitude, which condemns people
- you don't even know as "not really bright enough" is childish,
- counter-productive and ultimately immoral; the mind boggles
- thinking of the $$$ your self-righteous drivel is costing the net.
-
- >> In case you don't know what that word means, it
- >> means the way they are built. Ostriches and kangaroos can't gallop either.
-
- Aha! Is it that the can't gallop because they're too heavy?
- * How heavy is a grey kangaroo? *
- Why doesn't it gallop?
-
- >Ostriches and kangaroos are essentially bipeds.
-
- I see now. Do mice gallop? They ARE quadrupeds, after all,
- and not too heavy, dare I say.
- Ah, but I'm not bright enough to argue with superior intellects.
-