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#111372 09/01/2003 12:34 AM
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I know; I know. You already know what bibliophages are. No big deal.

But what you might not know is when little bibliophages grow up, they thrive on strychnine. I was very curious about this--and upon checking out strychnine, learned that it's just still another botanically related outcome from the nightshade family. What's one man's food is another man's poison--only here we're talking animal life responding adversely (or not, as the case may be) to the vegetable kingdom.

Don't mean to bug anyone here with this topic, but I figure we're all somehow related to the prototypes of our own family of bookworms.


#111373 09/01/2003 4:32 AM
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I figure we're all somehow related to the prototypes of our own family of bookworms

Sounds like vermicular reasoning to me.




#111374 09/01/2003 10:36 AM
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when little bibliophages grow up

I thought they just shifted from eating the books to drinking them.



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