Re: NI and OU

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:54:57 -0500 "Izenberg, Noam" 
<Noam.Izenberg@jhuapl.edu> wrote:

Quoting Alan:
>> In any event, given the number of Red Sea Pedestrians in Oz, there'd 
be a strong tendency to give such a guarantee. We also have a large 
number of other peoples from the middle east, but somehow when people 
get to Oz they tend to lose a lot of their mutual hatreds. <<
 
> Sounds like a decent place to live. <

I've always thought so; I just wish I still lived there!
 
>> Maybe it's because we're all too busy down here fighting off the 
spiders, sharks and snakes. Not forgetting the Drop Bears <g> <<

And you forget _them_ at your peril! <eg>
 
> Now there's a spinoff FT power: The Terran Union of Uplifted Species 
(though who would want to uplift spiders and snakes?). <

You don't uplift _them_ -- you squash them! Preferably with a 
landslide. The sharks get depth charges...

Phil, who once told an MIT professor of space science about Drop 
Bears... and I cracked up totally when someone else mentioned Tree 
Kangaroos and he looked at me as if to say, "Is this guy kidding?" <g>
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