Invisible wrote:
> So it's a story that fits the evidence, but is completely unprovable. (?)

Well, that's what it means here. But Kipling's stories are the canonical 
source of the expression "Just So story". I suspect perhaps Kipling had 
children or grandchildren who just wouldn't STFU and kept asking Why Why 
Why, until he started making up stories.  (And yes, that too is a JSS ;-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.

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