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- From: linda@linda.intel.com (Linda Harbin)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Mail order company packaging (was Re: Brio Compatible Thomas trains)
- Message-ID: <2402@gandalf.intel.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:02:29 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.182849.7445@cgrg.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov21.141127.3652@astrals.portal.com>
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- Reply-To: linda@linda.intel.com (Linda Harbin)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
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- In article <1992Nov21.141127.3652@astrals.portal.com>, shams@astrals.portal.com (Sharon Zakhour) writes:
- |> I just received a package from a company in Vermont that used a new kind
- |> of packing peanut made from cornstarch. If you hold one of the peanuts
- |> under water it instantly dissolves.
- |>
- |> Very cool!
- |>
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- Aren't they great! Whenever I get them in the mail, I will usually throw them
- out in the garden or the flower beds and let them dissolve in the rain. Sure
- beats those plastic bubbles and the styrofoam 'peanuts'.
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