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