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- From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Flavour Sensation
- Message-ID: <MJD.93Jan12104114@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 15:41:14 GMT
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- In-reply-to: mrx@sgi.com's message of 12 Jan 93 02:10:51 GMT
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- In article <uotslho@zola.esd.sgi.com> mrx@sgi.com (cloaking the constant k) writes:
- > one tablet completely reconfigures
- > your brain's biochemistry to match
- > that of an immature axlotl.
-
- Excuse me?
-
- I don't know what kind of mutant axolotls you have up there in the
- lab, Herr Doktor X, but axolotls in my universe don't have brains.
- They're a sort of slimiy missing link between vertebrates and
- invertebrates, lacking any nervous system more complex than a
- rudimentary notocord.
-
- I think perhaps what you mean to write was:
-
- > one tablet completely reconfigures
- > your brain's biochemistry to match
- > that of an immature atlatl.
-
- Always glad to be of service.
- --
-
- Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
- Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
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