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Joe Hunt writes:
It always amazes me how they say that no two snowflakes are exactly the
same. They obviously have verified this by checking every one that has
fallen from the sky, that would be ludicrous,

I thought that it was no two snow _crystals_ that were alike? Of course,
since each snowflake is an agglomeration of many crystals, it would be
even more certain that no two of those would be alike.
--
John Hall
"One half of the world cannot understand
the pleasures of the other."
From "Emma" by Jane Austen (1775-1817)