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  1. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!eff!rita
  3. From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
  4. Subject: Re: Christmas wrapping
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec29.171131.19539@eff.org>
  6. Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
  8. Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
  9. References: <Pine.3.03.9212290751.C396-b100000@abernathy.tenet.edu>
  10. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:11:31 GMT
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  13. In article <Pine.3.03.9212290751.C396-b100000@abernathy.tenet.edu> harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood) writes:
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  15. >long time ago when I forgot to buy any one year...I just assigned each
  16. >person in the family one kind of wrapping paper and wrapped all gifts in
  17. >that pattern...it worked great! (Well, except for the year that I forgot
  18. >which pattern belonged to which person...)  It was also useful in keeping
  19. >small people from knowing which packages were theirs, because I didn't
  20. >reveal the code until Christmas.
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  23.     Nico was horrified at this custom.  He couldn't understand why
  24. I didn't label any of the gifts. 
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  30. Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
  31. rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
  32. CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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