Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA07563 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:53:05 GMT Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745B64@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: RE: Fwd: Thinking Like a Chimp Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:50:31 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
<Are you sure you're not thinking of cube jellies (cubozoans or
cubomedusae)
> or sea wasps? Comb jellies (or ctenophores) are rather innocuous if I'm
> not
> mistaken.>
>
Probably, comb jellies are invading europan waters so maybe that's
where I'm going wrong. I'm talking about the one that can kill from its
sting.
<Isn't the fierce snake the one that the Crocked Hunter apparently
gets
> bitten by in a FedEx commercial?>
>
Don't know that commercial. Whipser it, but the Fierce snake is a
good bet for creationists' efforts to prove over-design, at first sight,
since its venom is incredibly powerful relative to its prey.
<We US-ians have a warped impression of Australians with examples
such as Mad
> Max (who is actually of US birth I think), Croc Dundee, Outback
> restaurant,
> Foster's beer, and the Crocked Hunter. The BeeGees didn't help the Aussie
> memescape very much in the U.S. either.>
>
I'm sure our Aussie contributors can speak for themselves, but I'm
pretty certain that Mel Gibson, like Russell 'Gladiator' Crowe, is
Aussie-born, which should be obvious from his english-bashing in Braveheart
and The Patriot. Aren't the BeeGees British? (or is that heresy?) Abba, on
the other hand are most definitely Australian... if you believe the closing
ceremony of the Sydney Games... Kylie Minogue singing Dancing Queen...
There is a running joke in the UK and Australia about Americans
inability to distinguish between Aussie and English accents- not received
pronunciation (the posh english of say, Emma Thompson or Derek Jacobi), but
regional accents like cockney.
Vincent
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