silliness about eskimo snow the cartoon strip the duplex , which is normally a commentary on what used to be called ' the war between the sexes ' , and deals with two young singles and their dogs , today dealt with our favorite topic : snowy landscape her poodle : i read somewhere that the eskimos have 80 [ sic ] words for snow . she : that 's nothing . snowy landscape with him and his mutt shovelling snow he : * @ # ! his mutt : double * @ # ! she : if you ' ve ever listened to guys shovel their driveway you 'd know there were twice as many . happy january . ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ geoffrey s . nathan department of linguistics southern illinois university at carbondale carbondale , il , 62901-4517 phone : ( 618 ) 453-3421 ( office ) ( 618 ) 549-0106 ( home ) geoffn @ saluki-mail . siu . edu