Re: Euphoria features
Hi Kat,
Saturday, Saturday, November 20, 1999, you wrote:
>> K> I think gasoline and automobiles should be eliminated, they both cause
>> K> far-reaching negative impact on the environment, and they are
K> implicated in
>> K> the deaths of thousands of people each year in the usa. We can all use
>> K> horses, bicycles, and helicopters.
>>
>> Horses and horse carts actually are much more difficult to control
>> than cars, and when they were in use caused a lot of deaths. In the
>> area of pollution, you haven't seen pollution till you've seen the,
>> uh, manure that a horse can put out. This increases flies, rats, and
>> therefore disease, which is a very potent form of pollution.
>>
>> Umm, how does this relate to Euphoria and this thread?
K> It's called sarcasm, read the lines in the email i replied to.
And it's called joking. My tongue was firmly in my cheek when I wrote
it. Sorry if it didn't fly, but my humor is sometimes a bit dry. The
question was to myself as rhetorical one which I then proceed to
answer. I can see where that may have been misleading.
>> Let me see if I
>> can dig (so to speak) my way out. Maybe this applies to gotos as well,
>> they, like the "good old days", only seem better than what you want to
>> do now. Convenient in some ways, but not in others. Everything has a
>> trade off. Did that bring it back around to Euphoria?
K> I didn't know we had left Eu as a topic till this email.
And here I thought I'd done a good job of making an apropos
application...;->.
K> Btw, you didn't address bicycles or helicopters.
Well, you can't solve all the world's problems in only one
message...wait till the next one.
Jonathan mailto:jcchina at bigfoot.com
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