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Re: About using assertion

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: About using assertion
Date	2011-05-10 13:25 -0400
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On 05/10/2011 12:26 PM, RedGrittyBrick wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 16:21, Lew wrote:
>> [...] your code ain't worth more'n' a pile of horse poop
>> being pissed on by a junkyard dog.
>
> In times gone by, the leather-tanning industry would pay good money for that.
> Rose growers still do.

The poop wasn't necessary for tanning, and horse piss was the preferred agent. 
  Rose growers prefer cow poop to horse poop, and the urine makes too high a 
urea content for good fertilizer, IIUC.

Trivia:  Mammals contain just enough of the tanning chemical in their brain to 
tan their own hide.  So you kill a squirrel or a deer or whatever, skin it, 
and rub its brains into its own hide to tan it, and you'll have just about the 
right amount of brains.  According to a source I encountered in an outdoors 
magazine, the details of which I've forgotten.

-- 
Lew
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg

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