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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 19:12:11 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:
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- >I've been <cleaning>. This pisses GT off, I'm afraid.
-
- Good! Maybe he'll get it out of his system.:-) Is it because he likes
- to live in a pigsty <*oink*> or just that he's too hung over to handle
- a vacuum cleaner's noise?
-
- >Brought over a new handy-dandy voltage converter, plugged in hair dryer,
- >and got precisely 30 secs of warm air out of it before the converter
- >exploded in a ball of flame and a loud pop. Bad smell followed.
- >
- That's what you get for trying to use USer appliances in Europe. Good old
- step-downs.:-) I've blown a few transformers, so I know the smell you're
- referring to.
-
- >England is confounding..GT owns a sparcstation yet carries a skeleton key
- >on his chain, and it is not an ornament. There's this constant butting up
- >against the past with the future. I haven't yet had a good sense of what
- >present is here.
-
- That's a hard one to figure when anything "Old" has to be at least from the
- time of Charles II before it earns that label.:-) I just hope there's a
- deadbolt key on that keyring too, with a Sparc in the hovel.
-
- >I can't believe ow many Indians live here. They even run the Chinese
- >restaurants.
- >
- That sounds about normal.:-) Up this way, the best Italian restuarants
- seem to be run by Greek immigrants.... Btw - this post is definitely
- from "Lunnon"; you dropped an 'h' above.;-) They'll turn you into a
- Cockney yet if you don't watch out...or maybe just an IBM user....?
-
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