# The Apian Way *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 13 Jul 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. --- ### mary whalen *13 Jul 1998, 23:29* This is Sean Whalen (prion). Has anyone noticed that the Autarch Appian's name is a homophone for apian (bee-like)? Any connection with the Honey Steward? Also, most bees are sterile workers. However, when a bee loses it's stinger, it dies. Unless it's the Queen Bee, of course, which doesn't lose it's stinger. prion ---