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From: "Constance Vigilant" <anybodyleft@arthurandersen.com>
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Subject: Re: David Horn's Fish
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:37:57 +0000 (UTC)
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"Ariaan"
<thisisagenuineaddresssopleaseomittheobvioustoreplyNOOOSPAM@hotmail.com>
wrote in message news:ZE0Ib.33162$Sf1.220210@zonnet-reader-1...
> Lenny Flank wrote:
> > Piorokrat wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> This appears to have started with David Horn challenging Dr Gastrich
> >> to a discussion of Rift Valley Cichlids, then Constance calling on
> >> my authority as an ichthyologist
> >
> >
> > You are not an ichthyologist. Your opinion on ichthyology is no more
> > authoritative than your opinion about theology.
>
> Where's your sense of humour?
>
> >> If we can confine the discussion to the Cichlids of lake
> >> Tanganyika, then I'll be happy to expand on what I've kept, what
> >> I've bred and what I've read.
> >
> > What does any of that have to do with evolution.
>
> Where's your sense of humour?
>
> >>
> >> The question which interests me here more immediately is, can a
> >> fishkeeper be an ichthyologist or not? If we look at some of the
> >> greatest ichthyologists, most of them keep fishes in aquariums,
> >> although not all as their hobby.
> >
> > What does any of that have to do with evolution.
>
> Where's your sense of humour?
>
> >>
> >> In short, when fishkeepers and museum ichthyologists meet, there is
> >> a lot to talk about, but also no shortage of friction also.
> >>
> >
> > What does any of that have to do with evolution.
>
> Where's your sense of humour?
>
> >
> >> In the end what is useful, what can be applied out of ichthyology is
> >> what it can give to other fields. The museum ichthyologists tend to
> >> be given grants to study things like cod's brains, because that
> >> could help our chances of controlling food stocks. They are not
> >> being paid to provide info for the aquarium hobby, and yet our hobby
> >> is a multi million pound industry too, but has to pretty much look
> >> after itself.
> >>
> >
> > What does any of that have to do with evolution.
>
> Where's your sense of humour?
>
>
Now that IS a question well worth repeating!
God bless,
In Love,
Constance Vigilant
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