Reptiles

Lee Berman · 07 Jan 2011, 18:55 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 13:55:40 -0500
Subject: (urth) Reptiles
Message-ID: <SNT123-W7EC16FFCBD999699150BFCF0B0 at phx.gbl>


>Mark Millman: In that case, it may interest you to know that, at roughly the same
>time that the term "ape" comprised large monkeys such as baboons, the
>term "reptile" comprised amphibians--which typically have externally
>fertilized eggs that require open water.
 
LMAO. Good one Mark! I could haggle over differences between the Commonwealth and Blue
but I won't risk the possibility of diluting such an excellent response!

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