Re: Why Lurk?

Subject: Re: Why Lurk?
From: joanne grey <j_grey -at- writeangles -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:15:50 -0700


Nancy Kaminski wrote:

> Decimate is always misused---it was originally the punishment of killing
> every tenth man in a Roman century (the military unit, not 100 years).
> But the lion's share? Isn't that taking everything, not your just share?

Ah, finally all that time spent watching Animal Planet pays off.
:-) Actually, lions lose their kill more often than not to hyenas
and other scavengers.





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Write Angles www.writeangles.com

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing. -Edmund Burke




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