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

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> 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
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> 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