Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  This apparently simple question has brought all sorts
AH>  of interesting people out of the woodwork.

AS>  You mean termites, what?!

AH>  Speaking figuratively, I was including various people
AH>  who don't often say much here but are well worth
AH>  listening to....  :-)

AS>  Yes, I understood you, and made a feeble attempt at a 
AS>  lowly joke prompted and insufficiently justified by an 
AS>  implicit and unnoticed metaphor of FidoNet as an old, 
AS>  desolate, and decaying wooden building, whose last 
AS>  surviving inhabitants have retreated behind &c, &c.

     
            I hadn't thought of that, but I have heard it said WRT the Biblical assertion "the meek shall inherit the earth" that cockroaches may outlive human beings for quite awhile if both are exposed to nuclear radiation... [wry grin].




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