Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: Turtle time Message-ID: <241@gymble.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 21:53:17 EDT Article-I.D.: gymble.241 Posted: Mon Aug 12 21:53:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 03:31:00 EDT References: <1082@cbdkc1.UUCP> <517@ih1ap.UUCP> <316@tove.UUCP> <237@gymble.UUCP> <318@tove.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 29 > From: dsn@tove.UUCP (Dana S. Nau) > Newsgroups: net.bizarre > Subject: Re: Turtle time > Message-ID: <318@tove.UUCP> > > In article <237@gymble.UUCP> fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) writes: > > > >A terrapin is NOT a turtle, which is NOT a tortoise, and should NOT be > >confused with a mock turtle, nor confused by a sheep in turtle's clothing. > > > >I hope I have made myself perfectly clear. > > terrapin, n. [< Algonquian], 1. any of various fresh-water or tidewater > turtles. 2. its edible flesh. > > -- from Webster's New World Dictionary That dictonary was probably written by slugs. Everyone here at Maryland knows that Terrapins are made of bronze and filled with cement to keep them from being stolen. -- All characters mentioned herein are fictitious. Any similarity to actual characters, ASCII or EBCDIC is purely coincidental. Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred