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Skriven 2007-01-18 00:58:34 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: gnash 905
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Hi Michael!

->  -> They eat what they can get. I actually doubt that they
->  -> evolved the taste for eating really aged meat, as if
->  -> they waited around for a long time, someone else would
->  -> have gotten to it first.
->  HN> I'm not sure if they even have a sense of taste...which might be more
->  HN> of a  hinderance than a blessing in this case! (grin) Great sense of
->  HN> smell though! 
-> 
-> Well, what we call taste is an amalgamation of taste and
-> smell. I figure that their sense of smell is what would
-> attract them to or contract them from old carrion anyway.
-> 
Smell would help them find the food, I'm not sure what advantage taste 
would bring to the mix (grin)

->  -> I've been on transit systems, most notably on one that is
->  -> not altogether far from yours, where it is forbidden to
->  -> be a standee on the buses and trains.
->  HN> Well then it certainly wouldn't be full of happy customers during rush
->  HN> hour...or maybe it would be everyone on board would be happy to be
->  HN> sitting...it's the  extra folk left on the platform who'd not be so
->  HN> happy! 
-> 
-> The city is Vancouver, BC, and I've not ridden on the system
-> during rush hour. There were, when I was there, posted warnings
-> about the dangers of standing while the vehicles were running,
-> and also I believe statements about the illegality and hooliganism
-> involved in standeeism.
-> 
Hmmm last time I rode transit in Vancouver was in 1986 during the 
EXPO...and I'm sure the monorail we road was so full that we were standee's \
-> 
->  -> San Fransisco has them too.  I'm sure other places.  Just not that 
common 
->  -> anymore, if they ever were.  Trolleys actually getting more common 
(often 
->  in 
->  -> subway style).
->  HN> Small Correction; San Francisco has cable cars not street cars, a
->  HN> distinction  they are quite proud of and very quick to point out to
->  HN> those who make the  mistake of calling them streetcars (which I
->  HN> did{grin}). The cables run in  special cable runs in the street below
->  HN> the cable cars and they go and stop by  either clamping to the 
moving
->  HN> cable or releasing from it to stop.  chat with you soon!
-> 
-> San Francisco actually has streetcars as well as cable cars.
-> Both are run by the Municipal Railway Company; more details
-> on sfmuni.com. One of the great pedants here, perhaps Greg
-> or Dirty Dave, once gave a disquisition on the distinctions
-> among cable cars, streetcars, trolley cars, and trams.
-> 
Interesting...I never did see any streetcars, I wonder if they run on 
the "level" streets? I called a cable car a streetcar and the operator launched

into a long diatribe to the effect that what I was riding (actually we were 
riding) was a CABLE CAR and not a mere streetcar. First time I knew there 
was a difference (grin)
chat with you soon
hap 
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