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Re: NFC: Gregor.

Ok, someone won a virtual cookie. :)

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 J. L. Wiegert                                    ICQ UIN: 1918889
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Zitnik wrote:

> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:26:03 -0500
> From: David Zitnik <daz1 at Ra_MsState.Edu>
> Reply-To: nfc at actwin_com
> To: nfc at actwin_com
> Subject: Re: NFC: Gregor.
> 
> Is ti from Kafka's The Metamorphosis?  Gregor Samsa?
> David
> 
> Joshua L Wiegert wrote:
> 
> > Hey All.
> >   Just thought I'd tel everyone about my most recent ... weirdism. :)
> >   Last night, my suitemates and I decided to go "peeping."  No, not THAT
> > kind of peeping. :p  Peeping as in hunting for the first few wpring
> > peepers at night.  Unfortunately, the temperature dropped and we didn't
> > hear/see/catch any (just as well, the one thing no one figured out ahead
> > of time was what we would do with them once caught. :)  However, aside
> > from finding a nice place where lots of minnows could be found, a few
> > crayfish, and seeing a pair of beaver, we found Gregor... a large (2-3,"
> > being conservative) predatious beetle.  He's now living in a cookie tray
> > on our sink... We threw him and the other catch ( a signel itty bitty
> > crawdad, a few Trichoptera) in there with some Java Fern, a few hunks of
> > coconut shell and.. ahem the lids off a few jars (Hey, we were
> > improvising. :)
> >    So far so good.. he killed and ate part of the feeder gldfish we threw
> > in there.
> >    This should be a pretty interesting thing to try, keeping something
> > like that for a time being.
> >
> >   To whoever gets the meaning of the bugs name, "Gregor,"  I grant a free
> > cookie (albeit, a virtual cookie.)
> >  end
> >  ><>
> >  J. L. Wiegert                                    ICQ UIN: 1918889
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