# A different iron man *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 May 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Peter Westlake *10 May 1999, 09:03* [spectacled bear coefficient = high] [balances pole on end] In _The Iron Man_ by Ted Hughes, there's a giant space creature, the space-bat-angel-dragon. [tries to climb pole] All this talk of iron men on the ship of a giant space angel reminded me of it. [pole falls down with bear on it] Oh well :-) SBear. ---