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To: Snowshoe who wrote (7997)	4/7/2007 9:38:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 12241

Interesting. Hauling up hagfish helps with recycling and preventing the resurgence of the ice age. It brings carbon back from the bottom of the ocean, where it would otherwise end up as sediment, into the terrestrial ecosphere. It also helps with buying of CDMA/OFDM cyberphones by Koreans and therefore everyone else. North Koreans would no doubt like loads of hagfish and CDMA/OFDM too. I suppose hagfish are derived from slugs because once I tried feeding a slug to our turtle and the slug let out such a mass of slime which combined with water to produce a huge mess that I worried that the turtle might suffocate. The turtle had taken one bite, which didn't even get a chunk of slug, and got a mouthful of slime. The turtle spent ages afterwards flat out wiping its face and mouth with it's front legs to try to clear itself up. Eels are delicious to eat and they can produce a lot of slime too, but nothing like a hagfish or slug. I used to use "gripper weed" to catch them by hand in creeks as a youngster. Gripper weed enabled me to hold onto them a bit better. Gripper weed was a fine plant which grew in the water, sort of like algae, but fibrous. Snails are a variety of slug, with a portable house, and the French eat them by the ton, so I suppose hagfish are comestible if prepared right [probably not at all good for sushi]. My guess is that Nokia gives away the game on Tuesday and extends the contract. I bet the lights are on in Nokia's corporate HQ all this weekend. I received a PM suggesting that might be because the boss and chief legal boss of Nokia like doing it in the light [they allegedly have a sexually intimate relationship]. I doubt that there's a lot of hanky panky this weekend. Maybe such a relationship is not good for corporate legal decisions. I doubt very much that it would help. "Don't screw the crew" = rule number one. Wal-Mart is currently in dispute with management who broke the rule. Their position seems such a mess in so many ways that I think they must have been depending heavily on simple renewal of the existing contract as their default position. They threw a lot of legal rubbish at the wall to see what would stick. Unfortunately for them, they are getting more than they bargained for thrown back at them. As they say, starting a fight is a lot of fun, but great military plans rarely survive first contact with the enemy. A Tar Baby looks vulnerable, but can be quite icky. The USA whacked Iraq and while the Hussein family has been destroyed, and a lot more besides, it has been a lot more than a military training course for the USA. Mqurice