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From: clark@aurora.UUCP (Clark Quinn)
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Subject: Re: Australian Swarms
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Date: Thu, 19-Jul-84 10:42:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 19 10:42:11 1984
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<we'll import a Denevian bug eater!>

I'm glad Alex (the temporarily displaced Australian) mentioned the
previous history of the rabbits and mice in Australia.  Other imports
have fared almost as well, doing just what was planned :-).

For instance, once all those rats from ships docking in Hawaii infested
the cane fields, they imported mongooses (mongeese? there's a cute quote
I can't remember about how the mongoose is a singular beast because no
one knows how to pluralize it).  However, one is diurnal, the other is
nocturnal.  Net result = mongeese (mongooses? see above) everywhere!

-- Clark

"Real men don't have cute signoff quotes"