offtopic helmet polishing (was Re: rm fails to remove symbolic links to directories)

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:59:56AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Christopher Faylor
>>Sent: 19 April 2005 02:28
>
>>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:49:40AM +0530, NNK_ml wrote:
>>>Am doing a little looking-into in to the purpose of the special folders
>>>in Linux though...
>>
>>Just a bit of trivia: did you know that a porpoise was a mammal?
>>
>>I know! I thought they were related to whales! I think science is fun!
>
>Whales are just overgrown hippopotamuses.  Um.  Hippopotami.  Hippos,
>goddamit.  Anyway they're just big ones.

Actually, all kidding aside, this is correct, right?  They think that whales
and hippos came from a common ancestor, don't they?

Also, apparently "death by hippo" is fairly common.  They are aggressive
beasts.

cgf