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From: cmj@cosivax.UUCP (Charles M. Jones)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Net.bizarre Official Animal
Message-ID: <156@cosivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 12:32:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 12:32:22 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 00:22:51 EDT
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In our quest for an official mascot, may have proposed we use what they feel is
the most intrinsically bizarre animal imaginable.  What an expected and mundane
approach.  More appropriate, I feel, would be to chose as our official mascot an
animal whose relationship to eco-system most closely resembles our own, bizarre,
relationship to the net.  I offer as our Official Mascot the tree sloth.

Despite its natural endowment of an opposable thumb and keen intelligence, the
sloth choses to remain apart from the mainstream of evolution.  Declining the
responsibility real growth requires, the sloth is content with a laid back,
perhaps even lazy existence.  Although there's nothing bizarre about the sloth's
behavior(albeit little), the very fact that evolution provides such a creature
a viable niche is testimony to the eco-system's compassion.  Nothing less could
be said of net.bizzare itself:  despite our members' gifts we move slowly, when
at all, and serve little function within the net - except perhaps as a something
an occasional net user will look upon and, knowing full well we will never be
house-broken, gleefully exclaim:

	"Why look Harold - don't you think they're cute?"