Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: About using assertion Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 21:15:05 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 19:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="3ontdQOwqTpoXYF7H7NQoA"; logging-data="4132"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18jKaxRfn4Ua1wI8yy5i8T2" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:c0J8zUZ0u8OTeyaXEDI73i5/hpY= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3931 On 10/05/2011 19:25, Lew allegedly wrote: > 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. That's quite fascinating. I never would have thought I'd read this in a Java newsgroup, but I'm no less grateful I did. -- DF. An escaped convict once said to me: "Alcatraz is the place to be"