SC - OT - Omaha Steaks anomaly
Steve & Kerri Geppert
emster at alaska.net
Wed Dec 10 23:18:08 PST 1997
Couldn't resist putting my two cents in on the subject of disks. An
instructor at a workshop I attended about a year ago suggested all these
disks we get from various sources make great coasters.
Clare
Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
>
> Alderton, Philippa wrote:
> >
> > I don't know, Adamantius. I just got one when I bought a magazine; I was
> > thinking they might grow on trees. Looking at one of my biology books under
> > parasites, however, I noticed that they fit some of the criteria (by
> > elimination) for fungi- neither animate nor chlorophyl-producing, no
> > obvious reproduction method, no known symbiotic function, etc.
>
> I do realize what you mean, but at first I thought you meant
> "elimination" in a sort of parasitic sense, like the cuckoo who
> supposedly throws the hatchlings of other birds out of the nest to die,
> substituting its own chicks. Clearly AOL disks cannot reproduce
> independently: perhaps thay are more akin to--dare I say it?--virii?
> After all, they won't stop their attacks on competing organisms until
> all other life forms are destroyed, other than their hosts, of course.
>
> Luckily I have an effective vaccine/antitoxin: I just reformat them. I
> save more money on floppies that way... .
>
> I'd suggest
> > cooking one up and feeding it to a member of AOL Corporation, to see if
> > they're edible fungi, but not only do beasts of that sort eat things not
> > digestible by humans, but I think they're OOP- unless anybody on the list
> > has a period recipe using similar ingredients we might try? THAT would make
> > an interesting redaction! Cariadoc, anything in your Miscelleny? Or Stefan,
> > your Florigellium?
>
> I'll check Curye on Inglysch for a recipe for to makken 6e Leeches 6at
> do succke at 6y braine...that would be the little pests, eh?
>
> Adamantius
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