RE: 1364 mantis issues

From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 08:14:47 PDT

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    -- On May 2 2005 at 00:18, Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com sent a message:
    > To: etf@boyd.com
    > Subject: "1364 mantis issues"
    > (Does anyone know why they call it Mantis? Maybe because a Mantis is a
    > bug?)

    The Preying Mantis is a rather large bug

    <http://www.arizonensis.org/sonoran/fieldguide/arthropoda/mantidae.html>

    which ravenously eats other bugs

    <http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2154.html>

    Folks buy them and release them in their gardens, hoping they will eat
    the bad bugs that would otherwise eat their petunias
    <http://www.gardenguides.com/flowers/annuals/petunia.htm>

    Presumably the Mantis bug tracking system is named in honor of this
    creature. The irony that the Preying Mantis is itself also a bug is
    not lost on anyone, especially when one can not get Mantis the bug
    tracking system to do precisely what one wishes...

    -mac

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