Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Day of the Triffids - ARTS TV Message-ID: <343@pucc-i> Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 01:31:48 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.343 Posted: Mon Jul 9 01:31:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 10-Jul-84 01:29:09 EDT References: <921@orca.UUCP> <127@uwmacc.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 12 > What the hell do the Triffids have to do with anything???! As far as I > can tell, this is another (very good) end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it > story. Why the Triffids? There could have just as easily been > cougars running around feeding on the blind people. There was, of course, the interesting point that the humans began by domesticating the triffids (raising them on farms), after which the triffids returned the favor... -- Dave Seaman "My hovercraft is full of eels." ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags