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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:32:07 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
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- 24 Jan 93 09:56:42 -0600. <9301241558.AA02884@sics.se>
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- >Oh, yuck, Science/Nature! Not a category in which I do well. However,
- >since it received so much discussion on this list some time ago, I'm going
- >to say the Portuguese man-of-war.
-
- This reminds me of a gratuitous piece of information I picked up in Darwin.
- There is this sea creature known as...the stone fish? Something having to
- do with stones, anyway, because it looks deceptively like a stone. Only, when
- you step on it, it hurts. In fact to such an extent that the first thing
- to do, according to the horrifying plaque, when somebody has stepped on
- one of these things is to prevent that person from taking his or her life
- (by drowning or otherwise), because that is what people tend to do in order
- to escape the pain. I quickly resolved not to dip as much as a toe into
- the waters of Northern Australia.
-