"have ever been"

[Charles Doyle]

Wouldn't a chicken have to generalize in order to cross the road for the right reason?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:18:16 -0400
>From: sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM>
>Subject: Re: "have ever been"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>The capacity to generalize is a mark of a fairly advanced  degree of educability in the brain.( Chickens are said to lack it, though I wonder about that! )
>AM

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