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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote   
   (in article ):   
      
   > On 7/16/2021 8:11 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > > On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote   
   > > (in article ):   
   > >   
   > > > On 7/16/2021 4:49 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > > > > And note that when people refer to St. Patrick driving   
   > > > > snakes out of Ireland that really means he drove   
   > > > > paganism out of Ireland, so World Snake Day   
   > > > > I think can mean World Pagan Day.:-)   
   > > >   
   > > > There really ARE no snakes in Ireland unless   
   > > > they are in cages.   
   > >   
   > > Yes, but there never were any.   
   > >   
   > > The same is true for Newfoundland.   
   >   
   > NEVER? I checked. You are right.   
   > Not even in the fossil record.   
      
   Ha, I wasn’t thinking that far back, and allowing   
   for continental drift, which I should have since   
   I am a geophysicist by training.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "This could be the final breath/This is life and death/   
   This is hard rock and water/Out here between wind and flame/   
   Between tears and elation/Lies a secret nation" (Ron Hynes)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)