Re: CHAT: SWP anecdotes (was: RE: (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida)
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Sunday, December 10, 2000, 2:59 |
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
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