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   "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   news:52d4e4be$0$52802$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   > On 1/13/2014 10:01 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   >> In article , Robert Bannister   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> It would give all the unemployed people something to do.  ;-)   
   >>   
   > Being unemployed in London at the time was a jail-able offense.   
      
   Bullshit.   
      
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