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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:45:07 +0100
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- From: torkel@SICS.SE
- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
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- 25 Jan 93 12:40:03 +1100. <9301250141.AA19761@sics.se>
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- >Stepping on a stonefish can
- >indeed kill you but you'll die from that before you drown.
-
- Ah, but according to the horrifying explanation I read, when people
- drown after stepping on a stonefish (which is not necessarily fatal in
- itself) it's because they drown themselves to find relief from the
- pain.
-
- >Is it any wonder that that
- >part of the continent is the most sparsely populated?
-
- According to my friends in Darwin, they assiduously spread and
- cultivate horror stories about crocodiles etc so as to keep the
- people from other parts of Australia away.
-