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Re: My Spacebar is OK!


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a
>>>> lot more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's
>>>> falling off the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed
>>>> off the edge of a coffee-table!
>>>
>>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
>>> Igor
>>
>>   No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo.  That's why
>> the hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
>
> Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the
> edge, would there?

Personally, I've had to ban them from the coffee table, since they always leave the newspapers messed up so you can't
find the front page.

-- 
Lionel B



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