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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 14:27:38 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <495550f7-796e-4414-67ae-26d3f8ba16f1@example.net> <33442f75-5afe-ce6b-d5b2-19efc78a72d3@example.net> <2c1fb128-258b-7848-e896-3246674d460f@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:27:39 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6330b78a8744cb70020a49f87c433f0e"; logging-data="974196"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+CDNnxGPZ8NVvVSn9SHX3YubirQB8Kiz0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gz3s9z8jhmBnY+mckzweNPKPhyk= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <2c1fb128-258b-7848-e896-3246674d460f@example.net> Bytes: 3466 On 04/12/2024 13:07, D wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 04/12/2024 10:10, D wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Robert Riches wrote: >>> >> >>>> About 45 years ago, while eating in the college dorm cafeteria, I >>>> noticed the piece of "chicken" on my plate was a little tougher >>>> and drier than most chicken, and the arrangement of the bones did >>>> not appear to be consistent with any piece of chicken I had ever >>>> seen.  I had eaten rabbit a few years earlier, when my uncle was >>>> raising them, so I started to suspect the "chicken" was really >>>> rabbit.  My suspicion was confirmed when I heard a girl shriek >>>> rather unhappily from a couple of tables away, "We're eating >>>> BUNNIES!" >>> >>> How strange! How come they didn't just say that todays special was >>> rabbit? Or maybe there was an error somewhere with the delivery and >>> some boxed got mixed up? >> >> People have childhood memories of Peter rabbit and Bambi. > > So do I, but I still enjoy eating them. People are strange! Sometimes I > do not understand them at all. People as children get to associate words, images ideas with emotions. So 'all snakes BAD!! RUN. Bambi CUTE - cuddle - don't eat.' Then when - or if - they grow up, they replace them with more sophisticated and rational judgements. -- Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people. But Marxism is the crack cocaine.