Don , are you going to be the first to have the lights go out ? aren't you the first conch-ler to see the light of a new day?
weasel (and Y2K compliant)
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Barclay <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: Colus porteri


|OK Helmut, that is undoubtedly your best joke of the
|year.  And just in time, too, or it would have counted
|for the next millenium, HA!
|
|Cheers and Happy New Year,
|
|
|Don
|
|----------
|> From: Helmut Nisters <[log in to unmask]>
|> To: [log in to unmask]
|> Subject: Colus porteri
|> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 7:06 PM
|>
|> Dear all,
|>
|> thank you best for answering. But you know me well and my self invented jokes. This was
|only a joke
|> for the Millenium. Colus porteri was invented by me as a malacological name for Cole
|Porter, a famous
|> American composer. Hope you don't be worry about this joke and that you anything to
|smile.
|> with best shelling regards for a Happy New Year.
|> Helmut from Innsbruck.
|>
|>
|> Helmut "Helix" Nisters
|> Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
|> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Innsbruck
|> phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
|> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
|> web:    www.netwing.at/nisters/
|>
|> office:
|> Natural History Department of the
|> Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
|> Feldstrasse 11 a
|> A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
|> phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86 - 37
|