>Just in case anyone was puzzled by my previous post: I wasn't
>directing my humor at anyone. (Well, maybe at the news outlets with
>their dumbed down reporting.) It was more a fit of juvenile
>frustration which resulted in my regressing to vent that primitive
>but powerful desire to "see pitchers" of what the articles were
>talking about.

Aww, and I tawt it were humor. Well, I certainly saw no offence in it.

>And...would it be too much to ask reporters to explain what they
>mean by "Giant-sized snails" (measurement), if not what family they
>are from and whether they might be large specimens of known species?

Too sensible for newsies. And if they WERE told, they'd screw it up
anyway (I've been there for interviews and ready the "accounts"
later... little relationship between the two!
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut
‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago University
"There is water at the bottom of the ocean"  - Talking Heads

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