XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article <52d4e4be$0$52802$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional   
   Traveler  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   I meant it would give unemployed people today something to do if we   
   switched back to using horses.  :-)   
      
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