Hello rich,

Sunday, November 2, 2003, 9:42:25 PM, you wrote:


>>> I see you're using La Chauve-Souris! (v2.01.3) as your mailer. Does
>>> that mean you're using Linux?
MR>> Hee hee...no.  It's "The Bat!" in French.  :-)
rg>>> The vulgar literal translation to English is "The Bald Mouse!".
G>> Shouldn't that be "The Flying Bold Mouse"?

> The accepted translation is "The Bat!" but the etemology is references to 
> hairlessness and to mouse (but none to flying).

In german it's a mouse too, a Fledermaus, but I have no idea, what the 'Fleder' stands 
for... maybe a pun on Leder (leather), as in the leathery wings?

-- 
Regards,
 Jurgen

"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder..."

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