On Apr 8, 2005 5:01 PM, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > > > Hermes's silver snake, > > I speed but do not slither, > > Burrow but do not dig. > > What am I? > > I thought "caduceus", the snake-twined staff or wand Hermes carries as he > leads souls to Hades, but that seems rather obscure. I thought of a bullet. -- I die! I mis-remember my friend's telephone number and dial into a hydroelectric dam's power line, electrocuting myself. My roommates mistake my flailing spasms for sign language, coincidentally describing a delicious recipe for fried tungsten with petroleum jelly. They try the recipe. All die! O, the embarassment.