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From: chris@westnet.westnet.com (Christopher X. Candreva)
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Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
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Scott Brynen (sbrynen@lucy.qp.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
: I prefer HELP WOMBAT ADVANCED
OK -- since a number of people have e-mailed me who DON'T have access to a
VMS system, here is HELP WOMBAT:
WOMBAT
Wombats, general
Wombats are native Australian or Tasmanian mammals. Like many
other antipodean animals, they have strange* reproductive habits
(less so than the platypus which lays green eggs and is a
monotreme). They also have constantly growing incisors allowing
(nay, encouraging) them to chew on bark, wood, softer rocks, etc.
(Wombats are friendly, loyal, nocturnal, and not overly
intelligent. Sir Everard Home reports, "In captivity it is as a
rule amiable, the amiability being possibly associated with
stupidity." He probably woke it from a nap.)
* strange to us -- they wouldn't have it any other way.
Wombats, specific
The family Vombatidae is divided into two groups: the naked nosed
and the hairy nosed wombats. The naked nosed group constitutes
the genus Vombatuis (or Phascolomis) and includes the Tasmanian
wombat (V. Ursinus) from Tasmania and Flinders Island and the
common Wombat (V. hirsutus) from south east Australia. These
have coarse, harsh, blackish brown fur, a naked area on the
muzzle, and short ears.
The hairy nosed group contains Lasiorhinus latifrons from south
Australia and wombatula gillespiei from southern Queensland.
These species have silky grizzled gray fur, a hairy muzzle, and
larger ears. The consequences of all this to wombat society is
further complicated by the question of who has more ribs.
Additional information available:
Advanced
WOMBAT
Advanced
Wombats, particular
Dante Gabriel Rossetti had a wombat who slept (during the day) in
an epergne on the dining room table. He (the wombat) reappeared
as a dormouse in Rev. Dodgson's book.
Wombats, uses of
live -- conversation piece, alarm clock (third shift)
dead -- doormats; for food, see Wombats, food?
Wombats, food
grass, bark, leaves, fungi
Epergne
Who knows? ...clearly someplace wombats sleep.
Marsupials
Include bandicoots (which should be rabbits), koalas (which should
be bears), tasmanian wolves (which should be coyotes), and wombats
(which should be lethargic badgers). Pogo was a marsupial.
Sexual habits
These are of interest only to other wombats, and then only between
April and June.
Wombats, prehistoric
Pleistocene Giant Wombat was as large as a rhinoceros.
Wombats, food?
Would you want to eat a doormat that ate bark and fungus?
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