Hi PepHow are you? Have you had a nice weekend? I just got back from a lovely weekend in oxford.
A more suitable answer may be something along the lines of: Crane Flies often have their wings pulled off by small children and are therefore no longer able to fly. This, of course, renders their nomenclature to be 'Crane' rather than the specifically airborne 'Crane Fly'. Archeological evidence shows that around 30 million years ago such an ancestral 'Crane' was created which, although being of diminunutive proprotions, was able to pass its inheritance of wingless 'Craneitude' on to a generation of offspring. Over aeons, the same evolutionary processes which created the dinosaurs moulded this ancestral 'Crane' into the steel behemoths that we see today, towering over our urban landscapes like the brontosauri of the new millenium.
Does that help?
(A more suitable answer may be something along the lines of: Crane Flies often have their wings pulled off by small children and are therefore no longer able to fly. This, of course, renders their nomenclature to be 'Crane' rather than the specifically airborne 'Crane Fly'. Archeological evidence shows that around 30 million years ago such an ancestral 'Crane' was created which, although being of diminunutive proprotions, was able to pass its inheritance of wingless 'Craneitude' on to a generation of offspring. Over aeons, the same evolutionary processes which created the dinosaurs moulded this ancestral 'Crane' into the steel behemoths that we see today, towering over our urban landscapes like the brontosauri of the new millenium.
Does that help?
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Sun 4 Nov 2001, 18:28,
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is that true?I like the idea, kind of a b3ta call my bluff thingy
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Sun 4 Nov 2001, 18:53,
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or not
bloody hell crabyour bloody vocab is great........here's to all the simple people like me.....CHEERS!
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Sun 4 Nov 2001, 18:59,
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