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- From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
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- Subject: Re: Small Gods Annotations
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:16:51 +0000
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- In article <SR.93Jan20190147@zen.mp.co.umist.ac.uk> sr@mp.co.umist.ac.uk (Simon Read) writes:
- >p.49 "Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time."
- >
- >A reference perhaps (Pterry to confirm) to the saying (of a US
- >President, Ford I think) that: "He can't walk and chew gum at the same time."
-
- "So dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time" - Lyndon B.
- Johnson, speaking of Gerald Ford.
-
- >p. 60 "Below it, the doors of the Great Temple, each one made of forty
- >tons of gilded bronze, opened by the breath (it was said) of the Great
- >God Himself, swung open ponderously and - and this was the holy part
- >- silently."
- >
- >The doors of a temple in Alexandria were opened by a steam engine
- >designed by the Greek philosopher Hero. With similar legends
- >surrounding it.
-
- We've discussed this before ... but I'm still sure that they weren't.
- Hero's engine never existed in 304mm/ft scale :-)
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- Nick
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