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Martin Barry
marty at supine.com
Fri Feb 18 22:37:49 AEDT 2011
$quoted_author = "Roger Clarke" ;
>
> But I had to quickly check which is 'supine' and which is 'prone'.
>
> (A person who is prone, and who puts their hand up, would be liable
> to incur a rather nasty injury).
Lying prone is rather uncomfortable even without the hand raising. :-)
And someone else on another list who reacted to 'supine' said it made him
think of this chapter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#The_Tale_of_the_Man_Who_Was_Too_Lazy_to_Fail
I like the sound of "constructive laziness"!
cheers
Marty
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