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   From: Mencken@pdx.net   
      
   In article ,   
    Lobby Dosser  wrote:   
      
   > Bill Shatzer  wrote:   
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   > > Lobby Dosser wrote:   
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   > > -snip-   
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   > >> In the 50s quite a bit of Lake Michigan used to freeze and folks   
   > >> thought it fun to drive on the lake - cars in those days. Some   
   > >> thought it real neat to drive near the edge of the ice. Sometimes   
   > >> floes would break off with an automobile on board. It was great fun   
   > >> for Everyone Else speculating whether or not the floe would melt or   
   > >> tip over before the Coasties got to it.   
   > >   
   > > And whether the drivers would drown or survive?   
   > >   
   > > Strange sense of "great fun" Everyone Else had in those days.   
   >   
   > Watching Natural Selection at work. Not only fun, but educational.   
      
   It is natural selection only if removal from the gene pool occurs before   
   pro-creation.   
      
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