s. keeling wrote this on Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:03:40AM +0100. My reply is below.
> There was an ancient, giant snail sort of thing (whose name escapes > me) which spent it's life floating in the ocean wherever the > currwent took it. Some fossils are a few feet across. Ah, yes, the ammonites: o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonite ... ancient (and extinct) relatives of the nautilus. o Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Chambered Nautilus." _Yale Book of American Verse_. Thomas R. Lounsbury, ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1912. Bartleby.com. 28 Feb. 2008 <http://www.bartleby.com/102/107.html>. Aside from the Gnome connotation and the somber association with an extinct species, another concern about using an animal mascot is bumping up against an identical O'Reilly Nutshell book cover. -- .. Chuck Rhode, Sheboygan, WI, USA .. Weather: http://LacusVeris.com/WX .. 20° — Wind S 7 mph — Sky mostly clear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
