Wow,
I guess I missed a lot. I wonder if we got different
versions of the same experimental history teaching
methods back in the Seventies.
You still didn't answer the question of when.
Alan
>
> Once upon a time when the world was first created,
> it was a nice smooth
> sphere and everything was shiny and clean.
> Unfortunately, it was so shiny
> and smooth that the inhabitants had trouble staying
> on it without slipping
> off. So, gravity was invented. However, it wasn't
> quite enough - every
> once in a while, the world would lurch, and people
> would still end up
> floating in the Void. Since smaller people were less
> likely to fall off the
> world, natural selection took place, and people
> started to get smaller and
> smaller. At the same time, one of the people
> (probably a small young
> punk...) kicked a divot into the surface to give
> himself a little better
> grip. Pretty soon, everyone was doing it, showering
> the surface with lots
> and lots of rock chips, which soon got ground into
> dust. As people got
> smaller, the divots that the original people kicked
> into the surface became
> the land marks that we all recognize as mountains,
> canyons, etc. Also, as
> people got smaller, they continually ground the
> chips that were on the
> surface into smaller and smaller pieces.
>
> And that's how dirt was invented.
>
> Jim "I'm sticking to this story until someone proves
> me wrong" Ochi
> jochi@liquidaudio.com
>
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