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From: VERN HUMPHREY 
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 03 21:00:00 +0100
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MM> VH> You excrete a substance from your body, and while it's still warm and
MM> VH> pliable, you shape it into a trowel, and let it freeze.

MM>The only time I needed to build a cave, we had snowaxes that saved
MM>us from trying that kind of solution...   and I still think that
MM>such a trowel might be as useful as one made from frozen mushy
MM>peas...

Oh, you took the tourist course. :-)


MM> VH> And then wash you hands VERY thoroughly before eating. :-)

MM>Heh, heh - in what ?

Believe me, once you've made and used your trowel, you'll FIND a way to
wash. :-)

MM>Aha, the old flush-`em-out routine, Agent 99...

MM>The whole thing seems incredible to me - were Saddam half as
MM>cunning as they had him painted,  he'd be nodding off in a
MM>Retirement Village for Non-English-Speaking Immigrants somewhere
MM>in the South Pacific.  Doing an ostrich-hide on the outskirts of
MM>your old home town smacks of a total regression to childhood
MM>behaviours...

Actually, there was a good chance of that at first -- he was seeking
safe havens.  But the anti-war types convinced him we wouldn't have the
political will to come and get him.

MM>There'll be another bolthole somewhere full of WMD in battered
MM>suitcases, no doubt...   what an awful mess it all is when the
MM>next smiling face your lead scout encounters up the track might
MM>invite you all in for a family welcome - and/or take out 1600
MM>square metres of life in a sudden blinding flash.

There very well could be something like that -- especially if those
widely-dispersed goodies fall into the hands of Al Qaeda.