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Old 09-28-2003, 05:27 AM   #5
Rick Mundane
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Erica, now that God has bleesed you, maybe he will bless you.

I could not understand how I missed woodlouse in my research of this question. I trawled through the 'L's & 'W's in my dictionarys looking for inspiration. The problem was that in the Ws I found "Wheatstone bridge" this intrigued me, and I pumped that into a search engine and spent some time reading about this piece of apparatus. When I returned to my research a few days later I hit "Wimshurst machine" once again intrigued I turned to the search engine and spent some time reading about this piece of kit.

When I returned to the problem I must have thought I had cleared the Ws. Yesterday I looked up woodlouse to find "any small terrestial isopod crustacean of the genus Oniscus etc.

I looked up isopod to find "any crustcean of the order [i]Isopoda[/], including woodlice and slaters, often parasitic and having a flattened body with seven pairs of legs.

It is all there at my fingertips, I just failed find it.

In a previous existence I was a research assistant. I hang my head in shame.

Thanks again.
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