X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,e307a154d4a52363 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-20 20:54:48 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!igor.rutgers.edu!rutgers!koriel!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii Subject: TALK: Opossum Date: 20 Oct 1994 22:54:48 -0500 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 23 Sender: boba@wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <387e28$9jo@sashimi.wwa.com> References: <37f1q0$5ef@sashimi.wwa.com> <37k7gb$a51@sashimi.wwa.com> <37mibp$c22@sashimi.wwa.com> Reply-To: rkh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.K.Harding) NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com In article <37mibp$c22@sashimi.wwa.com>, Dave BIGGS - Dave wrote: >In article <37k7gb$a51@sashimi.wwa.com> kharriso@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Cappy Harrison) writes: >>In article <37f1q0$5ef@sashimi.wwa.com>, nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca (Normand >>Veilleux) wrote: >>> Yet another person was in need of an opossum. >>'possum have really skinny, hairless tails. This looks more like a lemur. > >Well not in australia they don't. Possums have large bushy tails. As I understand it opossums and possums are not the same. The former is South American, I think, and completely unrelated, having evolved separately from the Australian possum. Ryan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parallel lines DO meet but only incognito. Ryan Harding, Applied Optics, UKC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Now no-one's sitting on the fence, whose garden will we end up sitting in?" - John Wesley Harding, "The Person You Are" from "The Name Above The Title" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------