Abaia & co.

Adam Thornton · 20 May 2006, 00:43 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:43:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) Abaia & co.
In-Reply-To: <200605191815.40376.ddjones at riddlemaster.org>
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On May 19, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> On Friday 19 May 2006 11:43, mournings glory wrote:
>> Re 14 vs 17, and minotaur math:
>>> I guess that makes more sense: 14 is as high as the Minotaur can
>>> count.  Ten fingers, two hooves, two horns.
>>
>> What? No pizzle? Guess that makes him related to Appian-the-bull  
>> in at
>> least two respects, no?
>
> Cattle have cloven hooves, too.  Ten fingers, four hoof-parts(1),  
> two horns,
> one pizzle.  17.  Would have worked out nicely.  Too bad reality  
> had to
> intrude.

Reality SUCKS.

Waaaah.

Adam

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