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RE: Hippos
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 13:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Hippos
- References: <SERRANOmJWEsBk31TZ1000000af@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 20 May 2005 18:22
>
> > On Fri, 20 May 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> >>
> >> What scares me even more is when they do ballet.
> >> Have you ever seen a hippo in a tu-tu?
> >
> > Most kids have. Disney's "Fantasia"... Childhood trauma, and all that...
> > Igor
>
> Actually, I reckon you'd find that very _few_ kids these days have seen
> Fantasia. OTOH quite a lot of grown adults of *our* age may well have done
> so ....
Which is probably what prompted the whole hippo discussion anyway.
The subconscious has weird ways of getting back at you.
Igor
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