At 05:00 PM 11/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>C.J. Saft in The Parable of the Boiled Frog LO19864 asked if the parable
>were true. I read the same article as Rick about the Myth Debunking.
>
>Maybe it isn't true, but it is a good metaphor.
>
>After all, Deming said:
>
> "All models are wrong, some models are useful."
>
>And I've never boiled any myself, although I have various recipes for
>making "Gack" on my webpage.
I have. In a hot tub with Jacuzzi. It is blissful and comfortable until
you pass out. But for my wife I might have boiled or simply drowned. As
the temperature slowly rises you just relax and after a period it is too
much and you do not know it.
So I believe the boiled frog is literally true though I do not the
origins.
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Eugene Taurman
interLinx ilx@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~ilx
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Paraphrase of Proverbs Ch 23 vs 7 KJV
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