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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!news.qsc.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: Guy Cuthbertson  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Helmets: The Story So Far Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:22:41 +0100 References:   <7814afa4-2ecc-494d-86e2-d6d0010d2668@y4g2000yqy.googlegroups.com> Lines: 21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.14 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 100612-0, 12/06/2010), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 97bc62a7.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=gX9aLNkF3Bco4ZT7nAR:lNg07CKl X-Complaints-To: abuse@zen.co.uk Bytes: 2212 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:837811

In article <7814afa4-2ecc-494d-86e2-d6d0010d2668 @y4g2000yqy.googlegroups.com>, del.copeland@tiscali.co.uk says... > > On Jun 12, 2:41 pm, Peter Bellend  wrote: > > Despite their name, there is some debate about whether hagfish are > > strictly fish, since they belong to a much more primitive lineage than > > any other group that is commonly defined as fish > > Extant hagfish are long, vermiform (worm-like), and can exude copious > > quantities of a sticky slime or mucus (from which the typical species > > Myxine glutinosa was named). There are from 70 to 200 slime glands found > > in each of two ventrolateral lines from head to tail > > > What has this got to do with the price of fish, or the effectiveness > of cycle helmets?

He thinks it's clever to talk about hagfish in reply to anything he disagrees with. Since he very rarely does anything but, and his other posts are equally rubbish-filled, it's safe to ignore everything from him. (He does however do a good job of demonstrating the mentality of many of the extremists towards awkward truths: just reply with juvenile, irrelevant insults and the nasty facts will go away.)