J. J. Lodder was thinking very hard :
> Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 10:03:48 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
>> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 14:11:25 +1000
>>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 16/05/22 01:54, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-4, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> ...and many supermarkets here in the US have a checkout aisle for
>>>>>> those with "less than 10 items."
>>>>>
>>>>> Most, though, have signs specifying "N items or less."
>>>>
>>>> I know of at least one such place that also has signs saying "These
>>>> doors are alarmed".
>>
>> I'm reminded that in a book he wrote years ago, Alan Abel reported
>> that he had a sign on the door to his apartment saying something like
>>
>> "Warning! This door protected by an atomic bomb."
>>
>> The apartment never got broken into.
>
> That's overdoing it. A hand grenade would work just as well.
> (and would no doubt be more credible)
>
> Jan

Are we to understand that no elephants ever entered?

/dps

--
Maybe C282Y is simply one of the hangers-on, a groupie following a
future guitar god of the human genome: an allele with undiscovered
virtuosity, currently soloing in obscurity in Mom's garage.
Bradley Wertheim, theAtlantic.com, Jan 10 2013

Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:

> J. J. Lodder was thinking very hard :
> > Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 16 May 2022 10:03:48 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
> >> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 14:11:25 +1000
> >>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 16/05/22 01:54, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >>>>> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-4, Ken Blake wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> ...and many supermarkets here in the US have a checkout aisle for
> >>>>>> those with "less than 10 items."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Most, though, have signs specifying "N items or less."
> >>>>
> >>>> I know of at least one such place that also has signs saying "These
> >>>> doors are alarmed".
> >>
> >> I'm reminded that in a book he wrote years ago, Alan Abel reported
> >> that he had a sign on the door to his apartment saying something like
> >>
> >> "Warning! This door protected by an atomic bomb."
> >>
> >> The apartment never got broken into.
> >
> > That's overdoing it. A hand grenade would work just as well.
> > (and would no doubt be more credible)
> >
> > Jan
>
> Are we to understand that no elephants ever entered?

Do you really think that elephants are hand grenade proof?

Jan

On 17-May-22 21:46, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> J. J. Lodder was thinking very hard :
>>> Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 10:03:48 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
>>>> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 14:11:25 +1000
>>>>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 16/05/22 01:54, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-4, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...and many supermarkets here in the US have a checkout aisle for
>>>>>>>> those with "less than 10 items."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most, though, have signs specifying "N items or less."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know of at least one such place that also has signs saying "These
>>>>>> doors are alarmed".
>>>>
>>>> I'm reminded that in a book he wrote years ago, Alan Abel reported
>>>> that he had a sign on the door to his apartment saying something like
>>>>
>>>> "Warning! This door protected by an atomic bomb."
>>>>
>>>> The apartment never got broken into.
>>>
>>> That's overdoing it. A hand grenade would work just as well.
>>> (and would no doubt be more credible)
>>>
>>> Jan
>>
>> Are we to understand that no elephants ever entered?
>
> Do you really think that elephants are hand grenade proof?
>

You can't fool me. Elephants have no hands.

--
Sam Plusnet

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:

> On 17-May-22 21:46, J. J. Lodder wrote:
> > Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> J. J. Lodder was thinking very hard :
> >>> Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 10:03:48 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
> >>>> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 14:11:25 +1000
> >>>>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 16/05/22 01:54, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-4, Ken Blake wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> ...and many supermarkets here in the US have a checkout aisle for
> >>>>>>>> those with "less than 10 items."
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Most, though, have signs specifying "N items or less."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I know of at least one such place that also has signs saying "These
> >>>>>> doors are alarmed".
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm reminded that in a book he wrote years ago, Alan Abel reported
> >>>> that he had a sign on the door to his apartment saying something like
> >>>>
> >>>> "Warning! This door protected by an atomic bomb."
> >>>>
> >>>> The apartment never got broken into.
> >>>
> >>> That's overdoing it. A hand grenade would work just as well.
> >>> (and would no doubt be more credible)
> >>>
> >>> Jan
> >>
> >> Are we to understand that no elephants ever entered?
> >
> > Do you really think that elephants are hand grenade proof?
> >
>
> You can't fool me. Elephants have no hands.

Never throw a hand grenade at an elephant.
He might throw it back,

Jan

<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/28/girl-dies-rabat-zoo-elephant-morocco>

On 2022-05-18 11:38:50 +0000, J. J. Lodder said:

> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> wrote:
>
>> On 17-May-22 21:46, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> J. J. Lodder was thinking very hard :
>>>>> Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 10:03:48 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
>>>>>> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2022 14:11:25 +1000
>>>>>>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 16/05/22 01:54, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:49:18 AM UTC-4, Ken Blake wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ...and many supermarkets here in the US have a checkout aisle for
>>>>>>>>>> those with "less than 10 items."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Most, though, have signs specifying "N items or less."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I know of at least one such place that also has signs saying "These
>>>>>>>> doors are alarmed".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm reminded that in a book he wrote years ago, Alan Abel reported
>>>>>> that he had a sign on the door to his apartment saying something like
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Warning! This door protected by an atomic bomb."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The apartment never got broken into.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's overdoing it. A hand grenade would work just as well.
>>>>> (and would no doubt be more credible)
>>>>>
>>>>> Jan
>>>>
>>>> Are we to understand that no elephants ever entered?
>>>
>>> Do you really think that elephants are hand grenade proof?
>>>
>>
>> You can't fool me. Elephants have no hands.
>
> Never throw a hand grenade at an elephant.
> He might throw it back,

When I spent a sabbatical eight months in Chile in 1985–1986 we often
had visits to the campus from the police, and occasionally from the
army. They used a lot of tear gas, which was completely pointless as
there is no wind at all in Santiago in the winter (and not all that
much in the summer), so the tear gas just drifted up to the sky.
Students used to pick up the canisters and throw them back at the
police. I picked one up, but I didn't throw it back at the police; I
kept it as a souvenir and still have it.

--
Athel -- French and British, living mainly in England until 1987.

Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>Elephants have no hands.

Not even the rain has hands.

18 May 2022 14:00:31 GMT: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
scribeva:

>Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>>Elephants have no hands.
>
> Not even the rain has hands.

Clocks have, but they can't grab anything with it.

--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com

Wed, 18 May 2022 17:14:00 +0200: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
scribeva:

>18 May 2022 14:00:31 GMT: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
>scribeva:
>
>>Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>>>Elephants have no hands.
>>
>> Not even the rain has hands.
>
>Clocks have, but they can't grab anything with it.

With them. "Er", in Dutch, no plural.
--
Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.com

On Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 9:14:04 AM UTC-6, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> 18 May 2022 14:00:31 GMT: r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
> scribeva:
>
> >Sam Plusnet <n...@home.com> writes:
> >>Elephants have no hands.
> >
> > Not even the rain has hands.

[Sorry, piggybacking. This is not the moment for me to see whether
T-bird will work again on my superannuated computer.]

"nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands."

E. E. Cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond"

https://poets.org/poem/somewhere-i-have-never-travelledgladly-beyond

--
Jerry Friedman

On 19/05/22 01:14, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> 18 May 2022 14:00:31 GMT: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
> scribeva:
>
>> Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> writes:
>>> Elephants have no hands.
>>
>> Not even the rain has hands.
>
> Clocks have, but they can't grab anything with it.

Perhaps, but they can strike one.

--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org