Elaine.....you might be on (to) something. Actually biblical archeologists are now postulating that that is is exactly the original design of the tower of Babel .......evidently the fertile crescent was exactly * that* in ancient times.......bovine and human flatulence from the fruity diet necessitated a massive building project to try to vent some of the wretched Caananite......um, ......byproducts down the hall to the next county......, and so someone proposed building a 'tower whose top shall reacheth unto, yea, even the heavens, verily'. It was at the time, reaching crisis proportions when a Babylonian couldn't even hazard an after dinner cigar after a nice fish dinner, due to the chance of flash ignition from a carelessly discarded match. This is actually where those 'Stone Cold" type haircuts caught on, quite accidentally, due that carelessly stubbed out stogie....so much so that the Egyptians were quite taken with that bald look, and made a ubiquitous motif for hair fashion in all of their hieroglyphic scrawlings. Bet you didn't know that, did you. Really don't know what any of this has to do with kayaking........but if any of you need any more of this tripe, I'll be only too happy to respond with more fabrications faster than you can say 'pseudopigraphical papyrii'. Chris (self taught Egyptologist) Kohut Elaine Harmon wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Mel Lammers wrote: > > and in it he described > a > > way of obtaining pure water on a seashore. He claimed that if one moved > > above the high tide line yet still in the sand and dug a 3-4 deep hole in > > the sand, the water which came into the bottom would be salt free. > > I love it! maybe we better send this to the Israelis and others who are > spending millions on membrane technology, etc., for desalination.... > > Somehow this reminds me of a person in Boulder, CO some years back, who > proposed to the engineering school there (I heard it from a guy on the > faculty) that air pollution could be remedied very simply. We just erect a > massive chimney from sea level into the stratosphere, and it will suck out > all the bad stuff.... > > Elaine Harmon - eilidh_at_dc.seflin.org - eharmon_at_cs.miami.edu > > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 30 1999 - 04:58:55 PDT
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