Re: Animal mascot for RPG

["Norm Dennis" <wmss@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

'onya Kev ;)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Wright" <Kevin.Wright@aspect.com.au>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, 10 April 2000 10:26
Subject: RE: Animal mascot for RPG


> Hi,
>
> Another Aussie here. Just to correct a few points about platypuses
> (platypi?). They are monotremes, which means that they lay eggs, along
with
> the echidna (aka spiny anteater) the only mammals to do so, which may make
> them an evolutionary link with reptiles. On their hind legs they have
> poisonous spurs, not fangs.
>
> I suppose that symbolically we AS/400 programmers need to come out of our
> shell and away from our RePtilian Guise.
>
> My 20 cents worth.
>
> Kevin W.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: STEVEN_J_RYAN.NDOA@notes.denso.co.jp
> > [mailto:STEVEN_J_RYAN.NDOA@notes.denso.co.jp]
> > Sent: Monday, 10 April 2000 11:11
> > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject: Re: Animal mascot for RPG
> >
> >
> > What do you mean an unknown animal like the platypus?  Here
> > in Australia it
> > decorates our 20 cent coin, and is a big deal!  But actually,
> > it might not be
> > too bad.  It is of a unique order (monotrene), sharing that
> > with echidnas.  It
> > has been around since the dinosaurs, but still survives.  It
> > looks cute and
> > cuddly, but has poison fangs on its hind leg that can kill a
> > small dog, and
> > tends to live a solitary life
> >
> >      -  Unique
> >      -  Around since Dinosaurs
> >      -  Potentially dangerous (espeacially now we have pointers)
> >      -  Out there by itself.
> > Sums up RPG perfectly!  ;-)
> >
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