# Beanz Meanz Erebuz *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Feb 1998* > 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. --- ### Tony Ellis *10 Feb 1998, 08:45* 10/02/98 09:17 Beanz Meanz Erebuz CRCulver (on the Black Beans): > This story seems, in my opinion, to show the planting of the black hole in > the Old Sun. Nice idea, but see below: > Who is this woman? Evidently a space traveller with access to alien lifeforms - not unlike a female Hethor. I think that's all we know about her. > I would like to know the etymology of 'Nessus' and what relation it > has to poison. Nessus the centaur was killed by Hercules. His ingenious revenge, as he lay dying, was to get Hercules' wife to treat a shirt with his blood, which was the most caustic poison imaginable. When Hercules put on the shirt it burned like fire and couldn't be removed. ---