Hello, Bob;

01 Aug 04 10:08, Bob Lawrence wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> swirling out of a bath, for example, is so likely to be thrown
 RB>> off course by minor variations in shape of outlet and things
 RB>> like that that the Coriolis effect is swamped.

 BL>  Pedant!

:-))

 BL>  I'm reading THE CONFUSION by Neal Stephenson, a sort-of historical

 BL> know him; he wrote an SF marvel called SNOW CRASH, years ago...

That I've heard of, but never got round to reading.

 BL> wondering... it's a satire. How weird is that - an American who does
 BL> Monty Python?

Perhaps he's one of the few people who grasp surrealism; over here, the 
Python's were more or less responsible for the current abysmal state of our 
humour, because lesser minds saw Monty Python's Flying Circus and parlayed 
it into silliness and bad taste as being automatically funny.

 BL> once, interleaving them - hence the name (Confusion... con-fusion -
 BL> get it?).

Very clever  :-)

I suppose I should get around to looking into Stephenson.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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