Kenneth Whistler scripsit:

> But jeez, louise, you'd think that people on this list would
> be sophisticated enough about writing systems and scripts to
> not have to have long, dragged-out arguments attempting to
> clarify the obvious.

Sir Peter Medawar, the biologist, once addressed a roomful of other
biologists debating the definition of life as follows:

        I think all of us know the difference between a live horse and
        a dead one, so let us cease to beat the latter.

-- 
Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so,         John Cowan
is a tax on income.  --Lord Macnaghten (1901)           [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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