Re: [Groff] Problem with diversion

[Alejandro Lopez-Valencia]

At 04:55 p.m. 25/04/2003, Ralph Corderoy wrote:

> Hi Alejandro,
>
> > [2] The Masai, who live in the Southern outskirts of the Kalahari have
> > a wise saying: "There are only two wild beasts who would dare to walk
> > under the sun at noon: a hyena with rabies and an Englishman".
>
> You mean Noel plagarised the Masai?  The swine.

You bet! Start grinding the old battle-axe! Pork chop, hmmm!

I learned the saying from my undergraduate academic advisor (he who taught 
me to think, behave and act cynically as any good self-respecting 
organismic biologist/ecologist must, and also taught me evolutionary 
biology in the process ;-). He is an ethologist, studied under Konrad 
Lorenz in München and spent four years in the Masai Mara studying the 
private life of giraffes. Of course, he spent most of his time getting 
drunk with fermented curd in the company of Masai warriors and became one 
of them (he has the right scars in the, ehem!, right places to prove it :).