Anitra Robertson wrote:
<Australian Life Form lecture snipped...>
> Other lessons in Australian to follow at later dates!!
>
> (What does this have to do with HTML???)
You gotta get in on these threads from the beginning... First someone
asked people not to send HTML messages over the L. That led to a general
discussion over whether this was going back to the dark ages vs.
burdening us all with fatter email message standards as the price for
better presentation. Then came the inevitable figner pointing at
Microsoft for ramming standards down our throats. One said to the effect
that it's not Mircosoft but a law of the universe that "feature creep"
(more and more of these) will always win over simplicity. To which I
said that this reflects evolution... that anywhere there's space,
Nature's fashioned a life form to fit. Nature loves features (and the
occasional joke, too) is what I meant, and shamelessly used the poor,
maligned platy as proof that Nature will try anything once. Especially
if She's been drinking. From there came the crack about Australian life,
and then the pie floater came sailing into the discussion.
So... (whew!) ...that is how evolution works, and why the platypus, HTML
and the Australian meat pie in pea soup are related.
But national dishes are probably dangerous ground for discussion. With
candidates like pie floater, haggis, black pudding, "bubble and squeak"
(?!), escargot (snails), love-in-a-canoe American beer and so on, one
could start WW III with the wrong comment!
- Bill Thoen
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