RE: 1364 mantis issues

From: Brophy, Dennis (dennisb@model.com)
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 14:30:44 PDT

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    The female Preying Mantis also has a habit of killing the male Preying
    Mantis after consummation of their courtship. (That should be clear and
    ambiguous enough to make it past the most email filters.)

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-etf@boyd.com [mailto:owner-etf@boyd.com] On Behalf Of
    Michael McNamara
    Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:15 AM
    To: Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com
    Cc: etf@boyd.com
    Subject: RE: 1364 mantis issues

    -- 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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