> Gri"going for 'longest forum thread ever' new record!"shny
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> Well, Grishny, I''l help you get started. I have to admit, I do tend to respond more than originate. It's always one of the first things I do now. Log on, then check out the Forum.
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> ding"not saying much, but had to get the ball of thread rolling"dong

I, too, tend to be a responder. I am, though, one of those people who likes to type responses which seem to spawn threads of their own-- I think it's because I tend to take the idea from the original post, run with it, think of something else, and add that-- Do that often enough, and you'll get a lot of hybrids.

Speaking of hybrids, I read an interesting thing yesterday in a book I'm reading. The title of the book is "Calculating God", and it was written by Robert J. Sawyer, a Canadian author. The book deals with the arrival of two alien races on Earth, and the alien races have noticed some startling illogical similarities between the evolutionary processes of life on the three homeworlds. They make contact with man to learn more detail about Earth from the experts (since television does not give them enough to work with.) I am barely into the book (three or four chapters) but I would already by willing to recommend it to any who was interested.

Back to my main point, the protagonist (a human paeleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum) shows one of the aliens some old Star Trek episodes in order to give the alien some idea of what man has pictured alien life to be like. They discuss the fact that Spock is half Vulcan, and the alien points out that it would seem far more likely to believe that a human and a strawberry could be cross-bred-- After all, they're from the same planet. All this talk about hybrids made me think of that. And that's my "Read Canadian Literature" plug for the day. :-)

Don "Mostly, I went off on that tangent just to prove my point, but it wasn't /completely/ contrived" Monkey