XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 14/01/2014 3:57 am, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , lal_truckee   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/13/14 10:06 AM, David DeLaney wrote:   
   >>> On 2014-01-13, lal_truckee  wrote:   
   >>>> On 1/11/14 6:35 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   >>>>> eliminating the horse   
   >>>>   
   >>>> resulted in the demise of a true, practical, and widely available   
   >>>> self-driving carriage.   
   >>>   
   >>> Though you have to admit that the pollution issue was more immediate and   
   >>> terrible than today's cars and trains and trucks produce.   
   >>   
   >> Might be easier to teach a horse to use the toilet than to teach a car   
   >> to drive.   
   >   
   > Plus the waste product from a horse has an actual use (in gardening)   
   > whereas waste product from cars doesn't.   
   >   
      
   But at the height of horse-drawn traffic, there was far more than could   
   be cleared up, and in 19th century London, there wasn't much room for   
   growing rhubarb or roses.   
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
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