Hey Don, it's not fair!! I'm hungry!!! I'm in a severe diet, but going to
bed hungry is not nice!!! Ha!
 
Eduardo
Brasilia, Brazil
 
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        De:  Don Barclay [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Enviada em:  Quinta-feira, 15 de Abril de 1999 19:12
        Para:  [log in to unmask]
        Assunto:  [CONCH-L] Cone Wars Round 5
 
        Hi 'L'ers,
 
        And so it goes.  Everyone seemed to have survived the
        ...
 
        Within two minutes after extinguishing the light, Eduardo
        came bursting out of the rubble, and headed straight for
        Helmut without any hesitation.  I grabbed my camera,
        and waited to see what would happen.  Eduardo crawled
        directly onto Helmut's dorsum and extended his long,
        red proboscis around the cowry's shell.  Helmut was still
        completely retracted into his shell, but sensed immediately
        that something was wrong.  He went from being totally
        withdrawn to having his entire foot extended in a matter
        of only two or three seconds (awfully fast for a cowry).
        Helmut started trying to climb the glass, and indeed
        was lifting the conus magnificus off the bottom, when
        Eduardo moved his proboscis around to Helmut's head.
        I thought, "This is it for poor Helmut," and snapped a
        photo.  The rule that the act of observing an event may
        actually affect its outcome certainly applied here, but
        not in the same sense that the physicists would apply
        it.  The flash stunned Eduardo for just a moment, long
        enough for Helmut to gain an inch of vertical glass and
        dump Eduardo off in the gravel.
 
        ...
 
        (...to be continued...)
 
 
        Cheers,
 
 
 
        Don