RE: 1364 mantis issues

From: Michael McNamara (mac@verisity.com)
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 14:54:51 PDT

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    What, no HTML references to cool web sites showing the courtship or
    consumation in progress ?!? ;-)

    -mac

    -- On May 2 2005 at 14:30, Brophy, Dennis sent a message:
    > To: mac@verisity.com, Shalom.Bresticker@freescale.com, etf@boyd.com
    > Subject: "RE: 1364 mantis issues"
    > 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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