Re: Cats [Are they trustworthy?]

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

Robert Eberwein wrote:

> *All cats are gray*.
>
> I love it. During that whole thread I was waiting for someone to ask if
> Rhinoceroses exist or not. Not sure what I'd have said.
>
> Lance. You're okay [A bunch of you cats are okay].
> Robb
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have you read (or seen) ionesco's *rhinoceros*? one of my very favorites.
it's funny, when i was four or five years old, back when santa claus was
believable (at least to me) i wanted more than anything a stuffed toy
rhinoceros (having just seen *daktari*, i think). when i came running out
christmas morning, out of the pile of gifts under the tree, i zeroed in on
one in particular, and said, without even knowing who it was for, "i know
what's in that box! it's my rhino!"

my mom still tells that story...

lance g.

ps: like gumbo?:

a physicist who worked at los alamos after WWII, seeking help on a 
difficult
problem, went to the great hungarian mathematician, john von neumann, who
was at los alamos as a consultant. "simple," said von neumann. "this can be
solved by using the method of characteristics." after the explanation the
physicist said, "i'm afraid i don't understand the method of
characteristics." "young man, said von neumann, "in mathematics you don't
understand things, you just get used to them."