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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: leather
- Message-ID: <sf1r95g@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:18:09 GMT
- Sender: news@zola.esd.sgi.com (Net News)
- Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
- Organization: SGI TechPubs
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- Lance bought me Doc Martens for my birthday, the tall lace-up
- kind. He got them in black. Today I am wearing a white mock
- turtle shirt, a mostly-black Guatemalan vest, faded jeans, and
- black Doc Martens. Add the motorcycle jacket, and you have a
- fine outfit for walking around downtown Los Altos, which I did
- at lunch today. Los Altos, for you non-SF-Bay-Area people, is
- full of boutiques & hairdressers marketed at women who married
- lawyers in the 50s and think that their Jag-u-ars should take
- the right-of-way at all intersections.
-
- I stopped at the Peet's there. I bought a pound of beans, the
- Viennese Blend and a huge black mug.
-
- The problem with the Doc Martens-- to get back to the topic of
- boots and leather, and off the topic of Los Altos-- is laces.
- It takes me five minutes to put them on. They look great, of
- course. They look babe-acious, though Lance doesn't think so,
- even though he gave them to me. The other problem is the seam
- where that long tongue meets the upper. The seam has a ridge
- on the inside of the boot, a ridge that leaves a nice red welt
- across the top of my foot. The soles are bouncey, though. And
- they are great for motorcycling, though the leather is thinner
- than totally optimal.
-
- Please notice how nicely the above paragraphs are adjusted.
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- c j silverio
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