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