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To: TobagoJack who wrote (26789)	12/24/2007 7:03:21 AM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 218167

Wonderful photos, thanks. Erita is great.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (26789)	12/24/2007 8:20:29 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218167

read the chapter about perfect parenting in "Freakonomics". The kid IS. There is not much one can do about once he/she IS. I kept looking for signs in Experiment of what she really IS. There are two signs I look in a kid: -- If is sloppy -- If has no alertness. Kid sloppy? =doomed Was playing Monopoly. The figure that she moved was losing the foot. Got up got tape glued together. Kid lacks alertness =doomed We were in Esfahan Summer 2005. Horse carts loop around the big plaza carrying tourists. We all tired under +41C. (Track these 2 seconds) Heard horse trotting. Sound of iron horseshoe on stones coming from behind. Little kid -son of our friend- across horse cart path hidden behind bushes. I turn looking to horse cart coming to measure speed ready to dart across and hold kid not to move. As I turned to kid, Luisa was darting across, stopped, grabbed kid. I lift the palm of my hand to show she should hold still, horse cart passed. No one had time to utter a single word. They talked "I just saw it..." "How did he get there?" There was no time to do anything. It is printed in my brain the event. I relaxed. She's got what it takes. I recall the boy was afraid of water. Perhaps she got the feeling she was the protector of the little kid. Or maybe it was taught early enough that they had to take care of the smaller kids.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (26789)	12/26/2007 2:13:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218167

TJ, apparently infants raised together instinctively do not mate. Which is not surprising because to do so would cause great risk of interbreeding genetic problems. In primates, the females hop the fence and join some other tribe. The males try to defend their patch. It causes no end of fun and games for people [men] trying to retain their Sacred Most Noble of All Master Race and other people [women] who like nothing better than to mess with the programme. Romeo and Juliet, the tragic young couple killed on the bridge in Sarajevo, Fiddler on the Roof [who had his daughters messing up "tradition"] are well-known examples. Therefore I think neither Ruben nor Paul will be a son in law. <paul's mom asked what we would think should paul and erita get together in the future > They will use their skills learned in dealing with Erita [who no doubt runs a rough deal against them] in capturing the hearts of women who hop the fence later [if they are fortunate - there is a LOT of competition]. On predicting the infant future, there was a cartoon book my parents had 5 decades ago, called "The Rake's Progress", which was a series of stories about young infants who were doing something, with their doting parents watching and thinking what marvelous things they would do when adults. The few panels then followed them through life, which ended ignominiously with the initial activity still going on, but in a self-destructive venal, arrogant and funny way. I'll now ask Google if it has it! Good grief, Google is amazing [even though I accidentally used Yahoo! search which provided this link] Not only was the book a derivative, but Yahoo! has details on the real source, which explains the book well: en.wikipedia.org Lessons for our times: culturevulture.net I can't find pictures from the book [Google needs to get back on the job]. Virtuous Victorian Values are ignored at our peril. Anyway, your predictions/musings were exactly what the book was about - <erita may end up being ... i dunno, perhaps a boss of enterprise, or an organizer of society, or a fashion house type>. Of course the male ego is especially prone to the false path, delusions of grandeur and the consequent downfall. Mqurice