Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: About using assertion Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:25:13 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <09cb7d90-9b79-473e-9869-4476c5a0191a@w24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <92r0e9F6lvU1@mid.individual.net> <4dc96749$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net hA6XrD6Wdt8XGI126Vl3QfYSmW/OpJnJZ2E94UvWd7335+Dmd8BjWksLY70jkBfz7Cd5o1WmczVQaq3EaKSLmBa0EUCqVLt4oqXKP7DzVVGVG+3Ho2E99Wk+juH8i6BF NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 17:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="+xqaFQP4VFwGvRLi8MXqJ03TCjiEZgb2jw433OI99JYHvLS1FqeAg5e8mCinFZFeMzjQYN1jeu/Tx1HM4BsvYbxPXlUSVds4/022eRQDyF+LfFSo43saqCLYXRZ2mv8w"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4dc96749$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:NlvHCXCrCAmXjAcQLaNywaDK3a4= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3927 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