Re: RE: Steve

On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:49 AM, Robin Badcock wrote:

> I guess it depends what you class as resemble, maybe in looks?
I was doing a bit of thinking out loud. That line was a quote from an impressive book called _Beach Red_. It was written in prose verse form about the last 60 minutes of a Marine's life during Pacific campaign. I read it when I was a kid, and all sorts of lines from it have stuck in my mind. That particular line was from a minute where the guy was thinking about all he'd been told about possible dangers from Pacific wild life.

Then emu farming was a big speculative thing here in the states for a brief shining moment. Kind of like the tulip bulb craze in 16th century Holland. People were buy emus for breeding at enormous prices, and really got burned when the bottom fell out. I hear there are a growing number of emus in Texas who found a home after some farmer simply let them go. Apparently they're not always very good neighbors.

Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.

...................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)