XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: dtravel@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.   
      
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   hyper-active teenagers with ADD whose Ritalin got replaced with   
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