As chief financial advisor to the early morning latte drinkin'
Starbucks crowd here in town, it's been my responsibility to wet nurse
my high powered clients thru times of financial uncertainity and
difficulities.

Today was no different.

This morning my clients filed into Starbucks and greeted me at my
corner table with jangly nerves that wasn't the result of triple
expresso.

"Should we.......?"

"What about......?", their searching eyes seeking out mine.

I return their inquires with the Buddha's stoney silence - legendary in
these parts - and wait for them to fold their newspapers and open their
laptops.
The expresso machine hums in the distance as every eye in the room
watches me as I slowly rise from the table. I have their complete
attention.
I clear my throat, take a sip of my coffee, and in a barely auditable
whisper:

(??) wrote:

"One of the subordinate male chimpanzees
studied by Jane Goodall at the Gombe
Stream National Park in Tanzania learned
to bang two empty kerosene cans together."

"He then used the extraordinary movement and
noise to (augment) his threat_displays and,
as a result, rose to dominance in just a few
days over larger males in the troop."

Chimpanzees have other, sometimes surprising talents. Under laboratory
conditions they can weave sticks and vines into simple patterns (but
cannot untie knots). They can classify and group objects into...

On 1 Dec 2006 10:22:55 -0800, "Immortalist"
yahoo.com> wrote:

Thoughts don't fossilize, so this would just be a bit of guessing.
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Al Klein wrote:

Good thing then because thats what most science is about, trying to
gather the best evidence we can and relieve ourselves of the delusion
that we can be certain.