What Kind of Creation did I create HERE?
What category does this subject really belong to?

Should I go get my can of RAID now or just squish it?
Wait, I can't squish it.  Squisher can't handle this subject.  At least I don't
think it can.  I'll wait for Wirt to clarify.

Waiting,

Larry Barnes

Ted Ashton wrote:

> Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
> > Larry writes:
> >
> > > I think this [the black widow spider] can be classified as a true computer
> > "bug".
> >
> > Actually, just to be a true picker of nits (which are the eggs of lice, of
> > course :-), a spider isn't a bug.
>
> Wirt, you may keep whichever nits you pick, but a spider *is* a bug and a
> crab isn't!  :-).  The word he was using is the American word "bug" which
> sounds and looks like the Biology word "bug" but in fact is different.  The
> word he used is not a subcategory of insect but rather a supercategory (or,
> according to some of my friends, not so super).  It's all in identifying the
> language.  <*mumble*> What do they teach kids in school this days? <*grumble*>
> It's like those folks who object to calling human children "kids"! <*mumble*>
>
> :-),
> Ted
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> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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> cultural world is one country.
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