At 02:26 PM 8/22/96 -0400, pjb@ny.ubs.com wrote:

perhaps we should all add a line to our sigs to the effect that we hope he dies, and soon, natural causes, of course. Hmmm, what exactly does 'natural death' include? -paul

A friend of mine who's an occasional hunter, and I were watching one of those nature-shows, and as I recall they showed a deer escaping from some sort of predator. The show's voice-over said that with the coming winter, the deer escaped "and would die a natural death." My friend indignantly pointed out that in NATURE, getting eaten by a predator IS A NATURAL DEATH! In a sense, for example, being in an airplane crash is "a natural death," because gravity is entirely natural! Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com