FIRTH%TARTAN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (08/17/83)
With reference to the queries about my allegations of inconsistencies
in A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!:
1. Why shouldn't people drink sherry? Sherry is produced in the Xeres
region of Spain (hence its name). If Spain were Moslem, there would
be no sherry, since the Quran prohibits the manufacture and use of
alcoholic beverages.
2. The first computers were mechanical. True, but, as far as I know,
the only way to keep brass machines of that degree of intricacy
going, is to oil them with mineral oil. If you have mineral oil,
you have petroleum and don't have coal-burning aeroplanes.
Sorry my original message did not make things clearer
Robert Firth
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