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Dear BEE-Liners:
                Come now!  Let's have at least a quantum of reputable
scholarship around here.  I have it on EXCELLENT authority (the "below-
stairs" craftsmen that Liz mentioned was actually an ancestor of mine,
although nowadays we prefer to call ourselves "daemons"; now that we
have ascended to the middle-class and have found a home slinking around
the innards of computer operating systems) that "the bee" in question
was not just ANY OLD BEE: it was, of course . . . . a BUMBLE BEE!!
  Furthermore, we have it on equally excellent authority that those
"other sort of bees" were actually invented in the 1930's by a gentle-
man named Mr. Henry Ford, who figured that if you could mass-produce
them in large enough numbers (albeit at some sacrifice in body size)
then you could convince a gullible (farming) public that they could do
as good a job as the real McCoy.
  But we know better, don't we Liz--and (moreover) WE sure as heck ain't
gonna be fooled by them optical delusions in Brasil . . .
  Best regards, Chris Plowright.
 
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Chris Plowright - via the University of Ottawa
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