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RE: My Spacebar is OK!


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34
>
> > 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?
> > 	Igor
>
>   It wasn't pushed, it jumped!

Got an alibi?

OAU


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