Re: [MR] Optical Character Recognition

[Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>]

Poster: Dick Eney <dickeney@access.digex.net>


On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Ed Hopkins wrote: 
> Poster: "Ed Hopkins" <Ed.Hopkins@MCI.Com>
> 
> >...(For an example of 
> > how this works, remember the scene in ... was it Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? 
> > . when a boy dressed as a girl was "caught out" by how he moved when 
> > something was dropped in his lap.  

What always amused me was that every single test the woman used to reveal
Huck was a boy - was wrong.  Any girl I know would "catch" with her knees,
because if you spread out a skirt to catch something, it flips the object
across the room.  Any hillside I ever saw cows on always had at least one
ornery cow facing in a different direction from the rest. etc. :)

> > But note also that cross-dressing was rare enough at that
> > point that the initial assumption was that a person dressed as
> > a girl had to =be= a girl.  On that logic, a person-in-persona 
> > =should= automatically assume that someone dressed as a man is a man,
> > unless other indicators of gender are so obvious as to be unmistakable
> > =to someone not used to looking for them=)
> 
> Which brings us to the question of Little Red Ridinghood (hereinafter
> referred to as PCR).  The wolf's cross-species disguise does not
> cover such things as big wolf ears and big wolf teeth, yet it
> only slowly dawns on PCR that it's not her grandmother.
> * Has PCR ever met her grandma?
> * Does she have some sort of brain damage, like
>   The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat?
> 
> -- Alfredo

In _Witches Abroad_, Terry Pratchett brings up the point that PCR's mother
=knew= there was a wolf in the woods, and =nevertheless= sent PCR off
alone with a basket of goodies.  We assume she had a reason for this, not
to say a motive.

=Tamar the Gypsy (sharing account dickeney@access.digex.net)

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