Re: "I don't know; I've never Kippled" (was RE: What is a Dinosaur? and semilunate carpal)

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:12:00 -0400
> From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
> 
> > One more from me: What's a "Kipple?"
> 
> Old, old joke.  Guy says to a girl "Do you like Kipling?", to which
> she responds "I don't know; I've never Kippled"...
> 
> In reference to the "Just-so-story" approach to evolutionary
> scenarios.

Wow.  Talk about an obscure reference!  I thought you were referring
to Dick's law of Kipple (Philip K. Dick, science-fiction author):

        Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders
        after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's
        [newspaper].  When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself
        ... the entire universe is moving towards a final state of
        total, absolute kipplesation.

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