Lake of Birds

David Stockhoff · 23 May 2012, 10:03 · from 2012-May.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 06:03:39 -0400
Subject: (urth) Lake of Birds
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On 5/23/2012 12:26 AM, Bruno de Albuquerque Furtado wrote:
> "I was making a joke--a man with four arms is worth two men, as in the 
> Portuguese proverb.  (This leads us to Marc's ideas about the doubling 
> of limbs on Blue and Green.)"
>
> I thought it meant "armed fourfold" or something. But great sequence 
> of analogies!

I did not know the Portuguese were familiar with the races of old Mars.

Also, one could be four-warned. But if one needs to be warned four times 
. . . well, then you're useless. Usually you get only three warnings 
before being turned into a pig.

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