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- From: jh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
- Subject: Re: Bodies and bodyparts
- Message-ID: <C19oEC.L8A@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 17:54:11 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.114918.4785@news.uit.no>
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- Reply-To: jh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton)
- Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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- In article <1993Jan21.114918.4785@news.uit.no> espensk@stud.cs.uit.no (Espen Skoglund) writes:
- >Something struck me some days ago (or was it weeks?). Let's say you come
- >into a big hall, where a persons head is lying in one corner and the rest of
- >his body in another corner. You're asked to walk over to the body. Where
- >would you go? To the head or to the rest of the body?
- >What if there were more parts of the body scatterred around, where would
- >you then go? What part of a body is considered to be the body and what parts
- >are considered to be just parts of the body? How much mutated can body be
- >to consider it a body?
-
- If it can still be told apart from a pile of prok chops and tomato sauce then
- maybe you can call it a mutilated body, but I don't have first hand experience
- of telling the difference between these two so who knows. In fact who cares?
- Who knows and cares? Who doesn't give a stuff? Why don't they? Why should they?
- And most importantly, when will a pink giraffe walk up to Bill Clinton's cat
- and ask it for some green wellies? All these questions, and so few answers,
- makes one wonder whether the world is really a slightly nauseating shade of
- octarine doesn't it?
-
- James
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