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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:24:23 EST
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- From: Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
- Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9301011801.AA10481@cbis.ECE.Drexel.EDU>; from "Anne Burton
- Harwell" at Jan 1, 93 11:48 am
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- > I've been <cleaning>. This pisses GT off, I'm afraid.
-
- But Graham said he'd been cleaning for hours just before you got there.
- Surely, you can't have messed it up that much.
-
- > 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.
-
- Was it a cheapo transformer? I've used mine for years without the tiniest
- spark.
-
- > 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
-
- What's a skeleton key?
-
- > I can't believe ow many Indians live here. They even run the Chinese
- > restaurants.
-
- Anyone know what came of the Ugandan Govt's invitation to all those who were
- kicked out during Amin's regime to return? Did many people accept the offer?
-
- > More later,
- Have you tried to drive there yet?
-
- -rashmi
-