In article <v03110701b1c10b7dd1a8@[208.3.160.70]>, Douglas W. St.Clair
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>Was this an example of bad writing or bad reading (or both)?
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>>The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum used to have a label by the prairie dog
>>exhibit that said: "a family of prairie dogs can eat as much as a cow." I
>>heard more than one visitor say: "I didn't know they were carnivorous!"
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In England, some early stationary steam engines have domed boilers;
these are popularly known as "Haystack Boilers", because of the shape. A
friend of mine was walking through a display of early steam engines in
the Science Museum when she overheard a family group discussing one of
these exhibits, including the comment: "I wonder why anyone should want
to boil a haystack."

best wishes and "there but for the grace of God go all of us",

fp
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Frances Palmer, Keeper of Musical Instruments
The Horniman Museum & Gardens
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