Subj : Interesting To : All From : Rachel L. Akers Date : Thu Feb 22 2001 10:19 pm Gidday All, This message produced an interesting array of suggestions. Just thought people might like to add to the list Rai --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 mailing list mlm-list@yahoogroups.com Subject: OK, now it's our turn! Haloo, All - (This in today's news): John Paul II is planning on making St. Isadore of Seville the patron saint of the Internet. Question for everybody: when you think of the Internet, which god/dess comes to mind? "Mercury looking at his behind and walking towards it" does not count as an answer, but as an expression of exasperation. Alpha --------------------------------------------------------------------- & the suggestions.... --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Question for everybody: when you think of the Internet, > which god/dess comes to mind? No fooling, I think of Loki, although your description of Mercury runs a close second. Or maybe Epimetheus. The 'net seems like a classic emanation of the Trickster -- looks good from a distance, sounds useful, even works OK sometimes, but it's capricious and unpredictable. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The current stats: Loki 3 Eris 1 Alpha...0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Msged/2 4.00 * Origin: Elfwhere - The POINTy eared POINT (3:640/531.2379) .