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#77925 08/09/02 02:05 PM
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Don't feel bad Fishona, think of all the waste water you failed to polute, flushing away the waste, the chlorine bleach to disinfect, and if you kids got liquid (Sabin) polio vaccine, remember that is made with live, weakended polio virus, which then gets into water waste stream.

you didn't use fossile fuel to heat the water to wash, and the manufactures where all subject to much stricter contols in the amount of polution and waste they made during manufacturing.. but you as an individual could have added more of a load to waste water, with out any controls.

the thing about the environment, is, there are always choices, and there is no "clean" way to dispose of human waste... land fill or toilets, each has a down side.

(and there is also a US brand of disposable diapers called "Luv's")


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there is also a US brand of disposable diapers called "Luv's"

And I conflated them! Eewww!


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Don't feel bad Fishona

So sweet of you to make me feel better about this, Helen.

- and I think you're right, especially in saying:
the thing about the environment, is, there are always choices

It's about doing the best you reasonably can as individuals, but more especially about being intelligent consumers, thereby encouraging companies to subscribe to sound(er) environmental policies.

Well, it's a nice idea.




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BTW, I've been wondering: if the hermit keeps a dog, would it be a cave canum?

No, Rhuby...it would be a rockhound!




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luvvie

When I hear this expression my mind automatically leaps to Mr. Howell (Jim Backus) in Gilligan's Island, who always called his wife Luvvie (or was it Lovey?) through his nose with the inimitable phony nasal cadence of the blue-booking "upper crust".


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Contrary to the assertion, "Hermits were always men", one could cite a couple instances to the contrary. Going from the divine to the ridiculous, there was Alibech, the associate of the hermit Rustico, from the Decameron.

More to the point, there was Dame Julian of Norwich, who is generally described as an "anchorite" which is the same thing as a hermit. Her book, Revelations of the Divine Love, had quite a vogue a few years ago. She lived for years in a walled-in cell attached to the outside wall of a church. And they didn't give her Amontillado, either.


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And I suppose they wouldn't take old farts anyway, because then you'd be a hermitage ...



The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Dame Julian of Norwich, .... Her book, Revelations of the Divine Love,

Did it reveal that she was a herm-aphrod-ite?


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And, of course, the god of all hermiting would be Hermes.

And their scripture The Corpus Hermeticum!


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HOBOy. Has this thread deteriorated



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