Re: CHAT: SWP anecdotes (was: RE: (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida)

But what does that mean?  To "bogart" something?


On Saturday, December 9, 2000, at 08:59 PM, John Cowan wrote:

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:58:05PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, And Rosta wrote:
> >
> > > David Bell:
> > > > early '60s.  Ah youth!
> >
> > And last Tuesday, perhaps for the first time ever, the verb "bogart"
> > appeared (in a non-meta context) in the _New York Times_.  Ah, youth.
>
> What was the context?
It was an article about some monkeys who coat themselves with millipede
secretions as a mosquito repellent (simple example of self-medication).
They pass the millipede from one monkey to another, except that sometimes
one monkey decides to "bogart the millipede".

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter


Andy

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