Dear all On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
> Put a horse and a donkey together, and you get an obviously intermediary > hybrid, the mule. Nobody is giving birth to dragons and chimeras. This reminds me of an old story that happened to me years ago. I have told the story also here years ago, but perhaps all have not heard it: Once upon a time I went to an Irish pub here in Finland - yes there were and are such things also here in Finland. I played the spoons with the house band, and later one of the real players, an Irishman, came to talk with me. He was very exited when I told that I play the lute in "real life". And he told me he would like to build a lute himself. I said that I know where you can order drawings of original lutes. He answered: "No, no, I want to make it just from my own ideas." If that guy some day made something, which he called "lute", what was that thing afterall? Was it a lute if he called it so? ;-) All the best Arto To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
