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From:     Brad Jackson <gaijin99@???-????????.com>
Date:     Sat, 14 Jul 2001 09:06:50 -0500
Subject:  Re: I'm still back and now a question about music
>        Most insects are also clean critters.  They too like to constantly
>groom themselves, especially the legs & annetenna (that's why bug spray
>works; they walk through it, then digest it when they go to clean their
>legs).

        True, and doubtless the various insectoid races would clean themselves
similarly, but I still think that they'd like the occasional sponge down,
and the idea of a Rastipede getting his exoskeleton waxed so he looks good
just seems right to me somehow.

>Spiders, oddly enough, never clean themselves (which is why you
>can't spray for them before hand).

        And this is why, according to all the sages who study Neogi, the Neogi are
smelly and nasty.  Their ancestors never engaged in any grooming behavior,
so when they became intelligent and "civilized" they never invented any
more technologically advanced grooming :)

>        I'd say dracons have grooming habits similiar to elephants.  Thus,
they
>use a good layer of dust to keep flies at bay.  In space, they probably
>have to force themselves to be cleaner to keep the dust down (and thus
>not foul the atmosphere).

        That's a thought I hadn't considered.  They do have vaguely elephant-like
behavior...
        Do Dracons sweat?  For that matter, how do the insectoids keep cool, or
are they cold blooded?  And, what about the hairy ones, sweat or pant, or
what?

>Hadozee & grommams probably use drums &
>flutes, though I can't get the image of the ewoks out of my head
>concerning them:P  With their big lungs, I'll bet tubas are popular with
>giff:)

        Tubas and suzaphones both...  The Giff are almost certainly into marches,
which means I can see a band in a Giff bar playing the Monty Python march.
        The ewok image is a bad one, but still, I can definately see their
traditional music being ewok-like.


                        Brad


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I'm still back and now a question about music    Brad Jackson    12 Jul 2001 23:38:08
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    Adam Miller    13 Jul 2001 01:00:12
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    HeyJim    13 Jul 2001 01:31:41
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    George LaValle    13 Jul 2001 14:47:20
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    Ben Wafer    13 Jul 2001 15:58:59
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    Brad Jackson    14 Jul 2001 14:06:50
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    Brad Jackson    14 Jul 2001 14:10:25
Re: I'm still back and now a question about music    Brad Jackson    14 Jul 2001 14:22:53

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