In a message dated 1/14/2001 1:19:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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"I see," said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.  In my yout'
we had a (male) dog who was accordingly referred to as "he," and I must've
known somebody with a female cat referred to as "she,"  and surmise that my
global observation re: pet gender was based on that evidently insufficient
information.

We now have 4 goldfish of unknown (but apparently single) gender, since there
has been no increase in their number.  But it seems statistically unlikely to
me that all are the same, genderwise.  How does one tell which fish is which?

Which reminds me....a former coworker who kept cockatoos or cockatiels or
some such doity, disgusting, lice-ridden boids, advised me some years ago
that boy birds (at least that variety) have boy....parts, or specifically, a
boy part.  If you get my drift. Never having seen one (a boy bird, uh,
appendage) I wondered about that before, but still find it a little hard to
believe.

I guess this all makes me a city boy, doesn't it?  Ruth, I don't know how you
can live with yourself, thinking you were once as ignorant as I.

Ralph