Re: Loitering in Gaffa

["Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@sitgbsd1.telecom.com.au>]

  >  Subject: Re: Loitering in Gaffa
  >  Date: Thursday, 14 December 1995 11:02AM
  >
  >  JForward@sitgbdsd1.telecom.au wrote:
  >
  >  <That's what I've been thinking more and more, and it matches with the
  >   other biblical references to Pandora and the camel through the eye of
  >   a needle business. Feet of mud always reminds me of foot of clay, 
too.>
  >
  >  Gee, I hope I'm not being anal here, but I do feel compelled to mention
  >  that Pandora is not a figure from the Bible.  She is the girl who could 
not
  >  control her curiosity, and unleashed all sorts of grief upon the world 
by
  >  opening a box she was forbidden to touch.  It is a Greek myth.

 Whoops - Prometheus & all that, indeed. My mistake.

 P.S. What is all the fuss about correcting people = being anal?

 Don Quixote : "It is a dragon and it shall be vanquished!"
 Sancho Panza : "Sorry for being anal, but it looks like a windmill."

 Aaaaaaaaarg!