>> I just opened my window. [Due to the temparature at my desk exceeding 

> 
> It's been trying to snow here too.

Really? Odd...

>> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm, 
>> interesting...
> 
> Ummm if in doubt, no. To put it another way think of the conversation at 
> the hospital...
> 
> "So sir, you seem to have a mild case of food poisoning. Can you think 
> of something you've eaten recently that could have caused that?"
> "I'm not sure. There was this green slime that had formed outside my 
> window at work; I did had a quick taste of that"

Hmm, yes...

[According to the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures, males are 
statistically more prone to risk-taking behaviour than females. Or, as 
the lecturer put it, "we're more stupid"...]

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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:49:06 -0000, "Phil Cook"
<phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:

>"So sir, you seem to have a mild case

Mild after drinking stagnent water???
Only if you are very lucky or already dead :)

Regards
	Stephen

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>> "So sir, you seem to have a mild case
> 
> Mild after drinking stagnent water???
> Only if you are very lucky or already dead :)

Well, it's fresh rainwater. :-P And I was thinking more about the algae 
growing in it...

Still, I would think it wouldn't feed you for very long.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> [According to the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures, males are 
> statistically more prone to risk-taking behaviour than females. Or, as 
> the lecturer put it, "we're more stupid"...]

  Actually no. No matter what PC advocates want to claim, there are
differences (in average) between the male and female way of thinking.

  Males are (again, in average) risk-takers while females aren't. Males
present much more often extreme behavior than females. For example the
majority of scientifical geniuses are male, as well as the majority of
serial killers. Males are usually the ones who take big risks eg. in
business, while females usually don't. (And no, individual counter-examples
do not nullify the average.)

  It has nothing to do with stupidity.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm, 
> interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_Kills_the_Cat

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm,
> >> interesting...
> >
> > Ummm if in doubt, no. To put it another way think of the conversation at
> > the hospital...
> >
> > "So sir, you seem to have a mild case of food poisoning. Can you think
> > of something you've eaten recently that could have caused that?"
> > "I'm not sure. There was this green slime that had formed outside my
> > window at work; I did had a quick taste of that"
>
> Hmm, yes...
>
> [According to the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures, males are
> statistically more prone to risk-taking behaviour than females. Or, as
> the lecturer put it, "we're more stupid"...]
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


And you didn't try to smear it at your body?
Would have been interesting when the algae would have shown an interest in
symbiosis.
[Thinking] living only from light and CO2 ^^
living green chemistry :)

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On 11 Jan 2008 11:52:04 -0500, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_Kills_the_Cat

<snip>The frequent rejoinder to 'curiosity killed the cat' is 'satisfaction brought it
back'.</snip>

I've never heard that one.  I'll have to use it next time someone feeds me the
curisoity line.

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Invisible wrote:

> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm, 
> interesting...

I much the same manner as I've been wondering if the green/white lump in 
the back of the fridge is a piece of forgotten blue cheese or something 
that will begin showing intelligence any day now.

Care to give that a taste while you're at it and render an opinion? ;)

As someone else said. Imagine the conversation at the hospital, then 
imagine the roaring laughter of the doctors and staff ...

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> As someone else said. Imagine the conversation at the hospital, then 
> imagine the roaring laughter of the doctors and staff ...

I think they would be already used to people a lot more stupid.

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I wonder... would it be safe to eat this stuff? Is it nutritious? Mmm, 
>> interesting...
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_Kills_the_Cat
> 

So, I was just sitting here thinking, "Oh, that's cool--there's a link 

minute, waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiit a minute........It doesn't matter 

*cat* knows what happened."  But then I thought, "...unless he's dead, 
for, as noted in the book of Ecclesiastes, 'the dead know not anything.'"

Sooooooooo.......If the cat's alive, he *thinks* he's alive, therefore 
he thinks, therefore he am--erm, "is."  But if the cat's dead, he 
doesn't know it, therefore he's indeterminate and not actually dead at 
all.  Then, of course, there's the possibility that every time you put a 
cat in a box, you create a parallel universe.  But, hey, every time I 
run my can opener, an angel gets its wings.

Oh, that reminds me, it's time to feed the cats.

--Sherry "Crazy Cat Lady" Shaw


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