open standards can be bought ;-)

[pootman]

I thought Alsop was a presenter on some home-improvement program. Maybe she's moved into fable improvement?

ps Confess 1sf, has anyone in Sweden ever received payment in connection with the contents of your underpants?

[1slipperyfish]

the same applies about getting a life i'm not actually a fish i'm a real live boy and i have a tail that i keep in my underpants
paul

[Rhakios]

I thought Alsop was a presenter on some home-improvement program. Maybe she's moved into fable improvement?

Perhaps he means Allsop, there were a couple of builders from Tamworth, the Allsop brothers, they could tell you a tale or two.

[1slipperyfish]

I thought Alsop was a presenter on some home-improvement program. Maybe she's moved into fable improvement?

Perhaps he means Allsop, there were a couple of builders from Tamworth, the Allsop brothers, they could tell you a tale or two.

kirsty alsop is a laydee, no brothers involved
paul

[Rhakios]

Back on topic: just because you buy them doesn't mean you can keep them.

[pootman]

Back on topic: just because you buy them doesn't mean you can keep them.

Now I have a mental image of a Microsoft Representative going round the Affiliates office with a cardboard box, collecting mugs, t-shirts, hats and pens...

[1slipperyfish]

Back on topic: just because you buy them doesn't mean you can keep them.

i thought there wasn't a topic as it's in off topic shouldn't we veer away from the topic as much as possible??

[Dutch_Master]

Fish don't think, they can't. So this is another contradictio in terminus...

[Rhakios]

i thought there wasn't a topic as it's in off topic shouldn't we veer away from the topic as much as possible??

It is only by going on topic that I can stay off topic in an off topic forum in a thread that has gone off its topic.

I would have thought that was obvious

[kilikopele]

and i have a tail that i keep in my underpants
paul

Some folks would call that a skid-mark. Perhaps it's time to change the tighty-whiteys.

[pootman]

i thought there wasn't a topic as it's in off topic shouldn't we veer away from the topic as much as possible??

It is only by going on topic that I can stay off topic in an off topic forum in a thread that has gone off its topic.

I would have thought that was obvious

So many topic's, it's making me hungry.

[1slipperyfish]

and i have a tail that i keep in my underpants
paul

Some folks would call something of that size a deformity.

lot's of people have said that
do they still make topics?
paul

[jjmac]

ok, google to the rescue ... it is Aesop not Allsop.

The frog may have been called George and the scorpion could have been called Roger, but i'm not quite sure on that.

I wonder if it was derived. What would have occured if 'idea' patents existed at the time !

Edit:
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Aha, i see towy71 has already corrected the name ...

And as the wiki suggests, it is likely a derived story with various character substitutions, ie; a folk tale.

The wiki is just saying that it isn't originally authored by Aesop, but it is 'one of his' in that it was told with Aesops twist. I can remember reading it in a book a long time ago, that was titled 'Aesops Tales'


If it found its' way on to Star Trek, it must have something to say.

[Rhakios]

Or else the Star Trek script writers were running around looking for a story and then thought, why not nick someone else's.

It's not plagiarism, it's research!

[jjmac]

Rhakios wrote:
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It's not plagiarism, it's research!
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Of course, at least for as long as the idea patent lobbyist are kept out of things. An old issue i know ...