Wonderful
P- I suppose there is a whole world using different meanings of words nicely
illustrated here
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Time flies like an arrow,
but fruit flies like a banana.
--Uncle Groucho
Hal
"The more you throw tomatoes on Sopranoes, the more they yell."
--Georges Perec
(attrib. to Unsofort and Tchetera)
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On May 24, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11858-fruit-flies-display-
> rudimentary-free-will.html
>
> A question for the list's philosophers: if da humble fruit-will has
> free-will, doesn't that mean they're capable of abstract thought? At a
> rudimentary level, of course.
>
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> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
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