Re: World Snake Day

On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote
(in article <[email protected]>):

> On 7/16/2021 8:11 PM, David Dalton wrote:
> > On Jul 16, 2021, ansaman wrote
> > (in article <[email protected]>):
> >
> > > On 7/16/2021 4:49 PM, David Dalton wrote:
> > > > And note that when people refer to St. Patrick driving
> > > > snakes out of Ireland that really means he drove
> > > > paganism out of Ireland, so World Snake Day
> > > > I think can mean World Pagan Day.:-)
> > >
> > > There really ARE no snakes in Ireland unless
> > > they are in cages.
> >
> > Yes, but there never were any.
> >
> > The same is true for Newfoundland.
>
> NEVER? I checked. You are right.
> Not even in the fossil record.

Ha, I wasn’t thinking that far back, and allowing
for continental drift, which I should have since
I am a geophysicist by training.

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