Russell Wrote:

>>Oh, if you are going to Europe, stay away from Mediterranean countries. The
>>annual kill, from hunting migrant birds, from Sparrows through to Imperial
>>Eagles is around 300 million. All this for sport. At least cats tend to eat
>their kills.
>>
>>
>>Sturat McKay

> Sorry Sturat, I will have to jump on that one.

Firstly it looks like I have forgotten how to spell. I haven't been called
Sturat for a while :-P

Your right, hunting behaviour in many/most species has nothing to do with
hunger. That's why otters and seals get such hard time from fishermen - one
bite out of a large salmon and the rest is left. Cats kill for the
"enjoyment", I only added that compared to humans thay sometimes get some
"use" out of the animal they killed.

Dennis wrote:

> I think we need a symbol for tongue in cheek, so recipients
> can tell when a poster just might be joking. Some of us may
> be in trouble less often if we can accomplish this. One that
> came to me was:
>
> :^)
>
> Any other candidates? Is there a "standard?" Or is the wink
> ;-) to be used in this way? Or is that flirting? I'm trying
> so hard to be electronically correct.....

The symbols are known as smiley's and there is a standard. In fact a couple
of books have been published on them (no references, so maybe a browse through
your local bookshop might be in order- try the section form the publishers
McGraw-Hill). A lot of the smiley's are pretty obscure. I usually use :-) or
;-) sometimes :-p occaisonally 8-O hardly ever :'-((. It adds some context to
what is being typed, but I usually restrict it to the obvious ones :-) :-)).

Don't be electronically correct, be yourself - it's more fun that way ;-)


Stuart MacKay