On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Shawn Burns wrote: > > From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at slac.stanford.edu] > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Louann Miller wrote: > > > > > I now live in Waxahachie. Say that, I dare you. > > > > What "The Battle of Barrit's Tomb" sounds like to Easterners, > > "Waxahachie" sounds like to particle physicists. > > That was awesome. I don't know what you just said, but I had a pure art > moment when I read it. Thanks, but "brava" is for the fat soprano at the end of the opera, not the virile bass-baritone (for whom "bravo" is apropos). The reference was to the death of the Superconducting Supercollider, parts of which are buried forever beneath the sands of Waxahachie.