Am Montag, 11. Juni 2018 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Sunday 10 June 2018 22:48:53 William Morder wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 10 June 2018 10:32:55 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 11:23:37 William Morder wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 10 June 2018 07:19:14 dep wrote:
> > > > > said William Morder:
> > > > > | This is just a wild guess ... but is there any chance that you
> > > > > | have downloaded the Pale Moon browser recently?
> > > > > |
> > > > > | Steven Pusser's repo appears after you download Pale Moon.
> > > > > | However, I don't allow that to happen. I copy the URL of that
> > > > > | repo to my sources.list manually, then backup and maintain my
> > > > > | sources.list on an external hard drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > This reminds me of a DOS game I bought (for I think $5 at a
> > > > > computer show) back in the late 1980s. It had a small install
> > > > > routine that copied the program to the hard drive and overwrote
> > > > > autoexec.bat with the name of the executable file. In those days
> > > > > autoexec.bat could run to a couple of pages, with us all trying
> > > > > to make our machines a little faster and getting use of memory
> > > > > above 640k, which was a delicate thing. To say nothing of the
> > > > > TSR programs many of us ran. Setting comspec right after we
> > > > > copied command.com to a RAM drive. That kind of thing. So
> > > > > autoexec.bat was a nontrivial thing, and turning a well-tuned
> > > > > machine into a single-game console was troublesome.
> > > >
> > > > I swear, this mailing list is sort of like Jurassic Park: a place
> > > > where dinosaurs still roam the earth.
> > > >
> > > > Bill
> > >
> > > They still roam the earth, Bill, except now we call them birds. :)
> >
> > I wonder if they tasted like chicken or turkey, or more gamey like
> > pheasant?
> >
> > Bill
> >
> I'd have to say that mere mortals like us will never know. Ostrich 
> maybe?, its pretty ancient.

Oh, there has been some reserch on the devolepment of chicken taste in evolution. I haven't found the link on the original pater, but this almost as good :-) https://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume4/v4i4/chicken.htm

Nik



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