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- From: gil@tillage.DIALix.oz.au (Gil Hardwick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Limits of Science
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <726306917snx@tillage.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 07:55:17 GMT
- Organization: STAFF STRATEGIES - Anthropologists & Training Agents
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- No problem, Mr Tobis. Just testing.
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- After all these years I still find it astonishing just how thoroughly
- and rapidly a discussion deteriorates into chattering gibberish once
- it is taken far enough beyond certain limits of acceptibility.
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- It is beyond that point, as I had warned you, that the edge of the
- world is encountered. Otherwise known as your territorial boundaries.
- The behaviour you now exhibit is no different at all from that of a
- chimpanzee or any other primate taken suddenly from its home range.
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- I suggest again, fellow, dragons be there. I can take you to face
- them at your leisure. Just send your cheque, and I shall alert our
- people to prepare something. How frightening, or how simply absurd
- it will finally get just depends on you.
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- Prof. McCarthy was far more witty and clever about it.
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- Gil
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