08-17-2006, 08:01 PM
Quote:Keep this up though..I need more criticism..you all are giving me great ideas for my disortation!
I love this term...it combines "dissertation" with "distortion"! (A truer neologism has never been coined!) :wink:
I will refer to my diss as a disortation from now on!
Carry on!
BTW - love the thread but I'm in way over my head on this topic, about the only thing I can contribute is my anecdotal opinion of the superiority of mules and asses over horses. My mother's father raised horses and they always put a mule or a donkey in the heard to keep the herd calm, and lead them to water. According to her a mule will break ice on a water trough where horses will not and is smart enough to lead horses around pitfalls.
My wife's grandfather actually did run mule teams in Italy in WWII where tanks and trucks couldn't go! He always said a mule was worth four horses.
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