Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n027

From: David Langford <ansible at cix.compulink.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 13:42:00 +0000

Alga wrote --

> Oh, btw the leatherskin has six legs, not eight, and three jaws. I have
> trouble with the three jaws--the best I can come up with is a Big Mac or
> club sandwich, with the jaws being the pieces of bread or bun.

Like the three gripping segments of a drill chuck, perhaps? Of course our 
author must have seen a lot of those in his time.

Dave

David Langford
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