To: Chuca Marsh who wrote (6803 ) 12/7/1998 8:05:00 AM From: Richard Mazzarella Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 11603
Chuca, <<know a hedgehog when ya see one>> 1. Hedgehog 1. When I did service to our country in the Navy, hedgehogs were an array of small depth charges fired in a pattern as an antisubmarine weapon. They looked like small bulbous rockets with tail fins and a circular fin protector, like little aerial bombs upside down on stems. The array of hedgehogs were all fired together, but would only detonated on contact with a submarine. However, once one hedgehog made contact and exploded, the shock wave in water would detonate all the others in the pattern. By by submarine. The hedgehogs also had a problem of inadvertently firing if positioned on a firing stick where the firing circuit was defective and hot. We had a loader lose his hand from the fin protector. 2. Hedgehog 2. That's the investment type that loads up on derivatives beyond any appreciation of what he's done. I have bathrooms papered in call options. Some Nobel laureates are also hedgehogs which almost destroyed the world's financial system recently, may still have. 3. Hedgehog 3. That's an investor that speculates in mining stocks and then moans and groans that it wasn't as safe a bonds if the price declines. Then they make repetitive posts on SI desert dirt threads to drive other investors nuts. I don't think those hedgehogs are protected with a hunting season. <VBG> 4. Hedgehog 4. Hedgehog, common name for any of several spiny mammals that are similar in appearance to the porcupine, but more closely related to the mole and shrew (see Insectivore). The hedgehog, which is found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, has a coat of long, stiff, pointed spines on its back. The fur on its underside is soft. Hedgehogs average 25 cm (10 in) in length and range in color from light tan to black. They have pointed snouts, small eyes, short legs, and vestigial tails. When threatened, the hedgehog rolls itself into a ball by the action of powerful muscles that arise from the head and neck on each side and loop around the rump. In this position its spines project in all directions. Hedgehogs conceal themselves in hedgerows during the daytime and emerge at night to hunt. They eat insects, worms, frogs, snakes, mice, and birds' eggs. European hedgehogs hibernate during the wintertime, but their torpor is not deep and they occasionally awaken and emerge from their nest of dry leaves to hunt food. In July or August the European hedgehog gives birth to four to eight young. Related to the hedgehog are the furred hedgehogs, or gymnures. One species, commonly called the moon rat, inhabits lowland areas of Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula. Scientific classification: Hedgehogs belong to the family Erinaceidae. Eurasian hedgehogs are classified in the genus Erinaceus, African hedgehogs in the genus Atelerix, long-eared desert hedgehogs in the genus Hemiechinus, and desert hedgehogs in the genus Paraechinus. Furred hedgehogs constitute the genera Podogymnura, Echinosorex, and Hylomys. The moon rat is classified as Echinosorex gymnurus. "Hedgehog," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.