Stepping out of the jungle gloom:
"Dr. Zeuss, I presume?" :-)
In article <ODGYc.74758$X12.67381_at_edtnps84>, Hans Forbrich
<forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote:
>Jeff wrote:
>
>> In article <iVGXc.19635$A8.1896_at_edtnps89>, Hans Forbrich
>> <forbrich_at_yahoo.net> wrote:
>>>Jeff wrote:
>>>
>>>> I say "fleas on the same dog" makes for an apt analogy apropos of this
>>>> thread.
>>>> If you call the dog, which flea jumps? grin
>>>>
>>>
>>>Since you haven't given either an ID, you can't tell them apart. You need
>>>to dig into your kitbag to eliminate the duplicates & redesign your model.
>>
>> You don't name your dog's fleas?! :-)
>
>Please, please, please,
>Of course I name my dog's fleas!
>Yup, that's right - I sure do
>I name them Flea-One and Flea-Two.
>
>And when I call to those fleas,
>I hope you will notice, please,
>that Flea-One does not come when I call
>"Flea-Two" ... and that's not all.
>
>When I don't want to talk to Flea-Two,
>as on occasion I'm sure you do to,
>I simply call Flea-One by name
>and he'll answer, alone, just the same.
>
>But if I just simply called out "hey you",
>then both would respond, and then two
>fleas would try to cross o'er the line
>e'en when only one would do just fine.
>
>What would really cause me much grief,
>and everyone else disbelief,
>is the total chaos and confusion
>and utter mental contusion
>that would arise if I called them the same
>or even worse, gave them no name,
>'cause then I couldn't tell 'em apart
>or fix 'em when the dog did ... scratch?
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 07:23:05 CDT
