> This post got me thinking.  since Konqui the dragon is the KDE community's
> animal mascot, has anyone given thought to Trinity DE having an animal
> mascot?  I nominate Corvus Corax (raven).  I did get to eat alligator once,
> but it was such a small piece, I didn't notice anything distinct about it.
> It may very well taste like chicken, but I can't say for sure unless I get
> a chance to eat a larger amount someday.    Cheers
> 
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:01 AM, William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Sunday 10 June 2018 20:36:31 dep wrote:
> > > weird. as i was reading this just now, alton brown on "good eats" was
> > > speculating whether dinosaurs would have tasted like chicken. and no, i
> > am
> > > not making this up. the episode is entitled "a bird in the pan," and the
> > > discussion is about three minutes in. amazing coincidence.
> > >
> > > dep
> >
> > Now that is funny! I am just riffing off the top of my head. I didn't see
> > the
> > show, and only vaguely know it. I watch a several cooking shows, but
> > that's
> > not one of them.
> >
> > Don't they say that the crocodilians (including alligators, caimans, etc.)
> > are
> > basically living fossils, that haven't changed much since the time of
> > dinosaurs, except to get smaller on the whole? There are people, I know,
> > who
> > have eaten them, so maybe there is a clue.
> >
> > *SNIP*
> > > > > > > > > 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
> >
> > And here I was, ready to pounce on the first person who was itching for a
> > fight, who would try to say that mythological dragons, for instance, were
> > some kind of dim memory of dinosaurs, or creative attempts to explain
> > dinosaur fossils.
> >
> > Yes, in fact I do know that many dinosaurs (we now discover) had feathers.
> > Also, humans and dinosaurs were never* living at the same time.
> >
> > [* At least, "never", as far as current science know. But then we also
> > used to
> > say that Homo sapiens never interbred with other humans, such as
> > Neanderthals; and we now know that they did, and that all non-Africans
> > (Europeans and Asians, mostly) have some Neanderthal genes; and that
> > Neanderthals often had red hair.]
> >
> > Most attempts to explain mythological dragons by the backwards logic of
> > referring to dinosaurs are, we find, unconsciously influenced by later
> > literature - mostly science fiction and fantasy. Again, since humans were
> > never around at the same time as dinosaurs, they could have no memory of
> > them
> > to feel the need to explain them away; and enormous dinosaur fossils, when
> > they were discovered, were usually thought to be the bones of the Giants
> > (that is, the Titans of Greek myth, the Vanir of Norse myth, and so on).
> >
> > Mythological dragons are altogether different; but if I go there, we will
> > need
> > to start not just a new thread, but a separate forum!
> >
> > It will be interesting, if we all survive long enough to witness such
> > events,
> > whether we can actually succeed in cloning and resurrecting extinct
> > species
> > from their recovered DNA. I don't know about dinosaurs as such; but I
> > think
> > it would be great to have woolly mammoths and some other species. And dodo
> > birds would make an excellent food source, it seems.
> >
> > When the human race is forced to evacuate the wasteland of our future
> > earth,
> > and a lucky few will get to colonize other planets, maybe we can take some
> > of
> > our animals with us.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Platypus, an impossible creature.
Many said TDE would be dead within a year.
Now, it's gaining ground to the point, I think, that some are nervous.

Kate
The Platypus Wrangler.

PS it would be a Borg Platypus of course.