Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote, [on 5/4/2008 1:42 PM]: This raises the question -- do rats have nits that you can pick? And why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? Or other kinds of ants, for that matter? "So nat'ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him pre

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . you know if it weren't for the nit-pickers we'd all > be knee-deep in nits! > > > > And then we would be called kneets? Sorry, in the Sunday post-prandial comatose state..even that seemed a good one...! Deepa.

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 12:12 +0400, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: > why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? no, they pick them. you know if it weren't for the nit-pickers we'd all be knee-deep in nits!

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
Biju: This raises the question -- do rats have nits that you can pick? And why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? Ram On 5/3/08, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In short - its a rat race in In

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-03 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In short - its a rat race in India, and the rats are winning. > /me tries to ignore the urge to nitpick -- and fails. Umm ... in a rat race, all the competitors would have to be rats and so only a rat *could* win. But I see what y

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-03 Thread ss
On Saturday 03 May 2008 4:35:17 pm va wrote: > Apparently someone at Mint was listening to Charles[0]. > > http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/03000507/Mother-knows-best.html >Very interesting. But I would be curious to learn if the children were (or were not) US citizens who will always have the opt

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
va wrote, [on 5/3/2008 4:35 PM]: Apparently someone at Mint was listening to Charles[0]. http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/03000507/Mother-knows-best.html Is the "Ramji Srinivasan" quoted in the article someone we know? ;-) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.co

[silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-03 Thread va
Apparently someone at Mint was listening to Charles[0]. http://www.livemint.com/2008/05/03000507/Mother-knows-best.html [0] http://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg10543.html