--- Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure I agree. Well, we have our Internet equivalences of "equivalents" > > winking, but I loved it when I read my first Hiaasen book. I started > I think that sometimes it would help if he would drop the poker face, > once in a while, when confusion has in point of fact resulted rather > than amusement, and just say that he was joking. For example, there's > the whole "Tsalmoth are giant land snails (or turtles)" debacle. No, SKZB never did that. What he did say was something like this: "I don't want to give definite descriptions of everything before I need it, because then I'd be stuck with them. If I said, for instance, that a tsalmoth was a giant land snail that climbs trees and tries to capture its prey by dropping down on it, then I'd be stuck with that description forever." It was a purely hypothetical, contrary-to-fact example, which was then misremembered and spread as a false rumor by readers of wherever he said it. The exact quote is somewhere in the list archive. I found it at one point and posted it here earlier. If anyone can dig it up again, please do us all a favor by adding it to the wiki page "Tsalmoth (animal)", http://dragaera.wikicities.com/wiki/Tsalmoth_%28animal%29 mam/c&s __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com