Re: Dione vs. Venus

From: Carl Gustafson (carl.gustafson@cbis.ece.drexel.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 11:00:09 PST

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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:00:09 -0500
From: Carl Gustafson <carl.gustafson@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Dione vs. Venus

At 10:43 AM -0800 11/4/99, cp@opus.hpl.hp.com wrote:
> Here's another one for you to ponder. Venus is the goddess of love
>right? So why did they did they name fly catching plant that isn't really
>pretty after her??? BTW , those people didn't know it was a CP, just that
>it collected flies. I find the association really quite odd.

Probably has something to do with the appearance of the closed traps.
A few vulgar comments about flies could also be made, but I won't.

Carl "Too refined for that" Gustafson

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