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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:20:54 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Questions
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>    does he do corneas?  retinas?   the guy who did me (well, my eye, not
> ALL of me, graham....) has a practice "limited to diseases and surgery
> of the vitreous, retina, and macula"

I have one of those guys, too, which is one reason I am following Dan's
recovery with such interest.  Two weeks ago the doctor asked me if I
wanted to take part in a "blind" study of patients with macular holes (I
told him I didn't consider this term pc in the circumstances).  Since I
have what is called a full macular hole in my right eye, caused by a cyst
four years ago, and since a similar cyst has been lurking on the left eye
for the last two years, he thought I would be a good candidate for the
study.  I am supposed to let him know after the holidays if I want to take
part...I think the answer is going to be yes.  Those who agree to
participate will draw to see whether they are in the group which has
surgery within the next year or the group which is merely observed on a
regular basis for the same time period.  Current success rate on the
surgery, which sounds similar to Dan's seond go-round, is quoted as 70
percent.  In my case, the surgery would be considered successful if it
restored reading vision in the right eye to "halfway down the eye chart."
(Currently the eye chart, viewed with that eye, looks sorta like a
crunched-up butterfly.  The big E floats in and out sometimes, a little
the way answers used to float to the top of the fluid in my Magic 8-Ball.)

Anyway, I agree with Dan...this *is* scary stuff.
ndh
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:53:11 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:16:24 +0100 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:
>  Natalie just made it up. She's pulling our collective leg.

NOT!!!

I heard of it many years ago in AZ, and first started doing so regularly
when married to a Texan.....from deep east texas.....

cyclops
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:05:17 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Questions
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> Note US Milky Ways aren't the same as UK Milky Ways.

What are UK Milky Ways like?

> these are proper airguns and dangerous enough to do real injury.  Over here

They're not likely to do injury to anything but eyes.  I speak from the
experience of having been shot in the arm by a BB gun.  It stung but didn't
really injure.  I'm not, however, disputing what Graham said about "real
injury."  Blindness is pretty real.  I've noticed that in the enormous
collection of dangerous toys young Jeffrey (of the other night's e-mail
greetings) has had, BB guns have been notably absent.  My brother (Jeffrey's
father) is an ophthalmic surgeon.  I think there's a connection.

> you have to be > 16 to own one, and aren't allowed to discharge it in
> public: private property only or a licensed target range.

I don't think BB guns are very common in this country anymore.  They were
everywhere when I was a child, but I don't remember having noticed them in
recent years.  People may be catching on.

> Does 'Oil of Wintergreen' mean anything to you?  Ever do athletics.  Yuk.

Oil of Wintergreen rings no bells with me, although I do like the taste of
Wintergreen mints.  Do what kind of athletics?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 12:36:07 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Favor?
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1992, Karen Kay wrote:

> Here's to Anne for the first e-oops of the year!

Crikey. Oh, well, I still have *miles* to go before I equal yours. ;-)

-abh
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Subject: Re: Silence...
Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:45:12 GMT
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In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>> Hello?  Has the listserv suddenly died?
>>                         o/.\____/
>>          -- Bernard      \______|
>>                          / \  / \
>
>I don't think so, oh noble pup.  I got this just fine.
>
>Ken <watching the latest ice storm prepare to screw up Monday
>    drivetime>
>
Uhmmmm - it must have hit CT early then.  We got throroughly slicked up
by 17:00; the local TV stations [CT and western Massachussetts] were running
weather advisories across the football game.  I went to the supermarket, and
more or less skated home.  The ice trucks were around by 19:00, so it should
be OK in the morning. Should - but who knows, in New England?:-/  If it's
as bad tomorrow morning as it was here tonight, Ken, don't go in.  I'm
serious - I have  a car that basically glues itself to the road, and I was
sliding around a bit.  There were pileups all over the place a bit later on.
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:42:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Madagascar's Exports in Jeopardy

Brad, thanks for the vanilla story.  Of course, it's still
possible to design "What is Madagascar?" questions with "cloves"
as the answer.  I wonder if the Madagascarians realize that their
vanilla contributes so wonderfully to my milkshakes and the
occasional White Russian.

Steve Karlson

One more posting day until bye-bye.
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:58:01 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Prof's revisited.
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Tired of the sniping from up north and his refusal to give a straight
answer to a straight question, I put a request on alt.usage.english for
an explanation of 'professor' in Canada.  Here's the helpful answer
I got from an echte Canadian.

(Did none of you guys know the answer, or did you think
it was too obvious, or didn't you understand what I was getting at because
you didn't realise that Professor in Britain really means something...)

G
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: Subject: Re: 'Professor' in Canada - what does it mean?
: Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
: Organization: University of Waterloo
:
:
: It is closer, if not identical, to the US usage, viz. someone who gets a job
: in academia is a "professor", at least if her office has a window :-)
: People who insist on its usage are considered pretentious unless they attained
: the rank of FULL PROFESSOR, in which case they are considered PRETENTIOUS.
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:58:39 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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Posted on 22 Dec 1992 at 00:53:31 by BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU

>If you got one of the "math class is tough" models, now may be the time
>to sell.  Collectors are offering up to $150 for them, according to today's
>Wall Street Journal.  Estimates are there are about 15,000 of them out
>there.  Will the price go up or down?

  "Don't throw your Barbie Dolls in the Ocean"

Tony H.
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:02:55 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: not to blow my own horn
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           5   203     209.7  0.0%   ap290@cleveland.FREENET.EDU  (Ruth M. Hansc
hka)
                                      79% bit.listserv.words-l
                                      20% bit.listserv.xcult-l

           6   197     237.8  0.0%   rsr@soda.BERKELEY.EDU  (Roy S. Rapoport)
                                      79% soc.bi
                                      7% alt.sex.bondage
                                      5% talk.rape

        [rest deleted to save bandwidth]  Should this have come as a surprise?:-
)

Yes, I though Roy Crap-rapport spouted off *much* more than you.

Fancy Ruth being <in bed> with Roy.  Who'd have believed it.

G
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 30 Dec 1992 04:27:58 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  I notice nobody has any ideas about "debit insurance".
>
Wild guess: check bouncing insurance?  You can't overdraw a debit card,
at least I don't *think* you can overdraw a debit card.  Coubbe....
Overdraft insurance does exist; this might be another name for it.
[bounced = rubber checks  - insufficient funds in the back account to cover
the draft...]  This could be the same idea for an ATM, aka debit, card.
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:46:23 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: attractiveness and personality
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> words we have NOT been attractive people....we also lack traditionnally
> 'attractive' features,e tc.....anyhow....the point is that attractive doesn't

Huh??  I'm glad that many WORDS-Lers have met you and Gail so they'll know
that this description is very much misleading!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:31:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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> > From: Graham Toal <gtoal@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
> >         --ggs (the one with the silver Miata.....)
> > If you mention that fucking Miata one more time I'm
> > going to ram it up your exhaust pipe.
> >
> > I hope you read the 672 pending messages.  631 of them were saying
> > nasty things about you...
> >
> We also remember that Graham doesn't like this time of year very much and
> he is in favor of public transportation.
> doris

We also remember that Graham is in a bitchy mood today.  Hohoho.
--ggs
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Copacetic
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:25:53 GMT

I don't know if the term was ever in wide use, but I've certainly used
it up here in the frozen Yankee North.  And all of my grand-relatives
came from foriegn countries before settling in Boston, so our line
isn't tainted by Southern blood.


-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:13:47 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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> I think, and the miata agrees, that the Honda Sol is just the car
> for you, natalie.... though it is only a half-convertible, like

It's gonna be beautiful when Miata meets Sol...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:03:49 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Say Something To Jeffrey
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>         I think Jeffy should be pretty honored that the list beagle
> hisself said hi to him.

The list beagle has honored Jeffrey with more than just a hi.  Bernardykins
has always lusted after little boys.  The lust is beginning to wane a bit
now, though, since Jeffrey is looking more like a teenager and less like a
little boy.  Bernard likes them young.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:00:54 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Khat Scam
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> Fleas refrain from fur-ther puns, or I bell collar you and take your sorry
> tail out to the shed.  Ever play cat-and-mouse?:-) <*krunch*>

Ya, mit ein shtar von ein Feliney movie. She vas der Khat's meow until
zum rat sqvealled on her. Sins then her noives half been zo bat
she ain't been nach wurst un dog's breakfast. <*uuurp*>

Zo vat's der cure vor logolepsy anyvays???
Pm
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:30:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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> > Is there a list for Deeply Held Beliefs?  I certainly hope so.
> > I know some people who would like to subscribe.
> > --ggs
>
> What *I* want is a list dedicated to <<DEEP THOUGHTS>>, as seen on Sat
> Night Live!
>
> Where does the NEWLIST list live, BTW?
> Agnes
> Nethead squared (or is that cubed..would you blieve n-ed?)

NEWLIST is great, because it sends you notices of new lists when they
get started.  It lives here:
.              NEW-LIST@NDSUVM1.BITNET
.
And here is the notice, just so you all know I am not <making this up>:
.
>    GAY-LIBN is an electronic forum for discussions of interest to gay,
>    lesbian, and bisexual librarians (and friends).  Discussions on the
>    list will often be directly related to libraries or library
>    associations.  Since the list is devoted to the general concerns of
>    LesBiGay librarians, however, some of the exchanges on the list will
>    be of a more general nature.
>
>    To join the list and receive mailings from GAY-LIBN:
>
>      At Bitnet nodes (IBM machines), type the following at your system
>      "ready-prompt":  TELL LISTSERV AT USCVM SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname
>
>      At Bitnet nodes (VAX machines), type the following at your system
>      "ready-prompt":  SEND LISTSERV@USCVM SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname
>
>      At other nodes, send mail to LISTSERV@USCVM.BITNET or to
>      LISTSERV@VM.USC.EDU as follows:
>      SUB GAY-LIBN Firstname Lastname
>      [Note:  Leave the "Subject:" line blank.  Do not include any other text,
>      such as a signature file, in your mail to LISTSERV@VM.USC.EDU.]
>

--ggs
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:14:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv

Natalie's description of academic dress styles ....

: And professors can usually be distinguished from other staff by clothes.
: The men in coats and ties and the women in hose and heels are usually non-
: faculty (or rather non-teaching/non-researching -- the term "faculty" here
: is pretty confusing since it includes lots of non-teaching/non-researching
: positions).  Middle-aged people in jeans are usually faculty in the College
: of Arts & Sciences.

Usually, but not always.  I enjoy being told I look like a banker,
and I'll almost always wear a tie for teaching.  What's confusing
about the term "faculty" including non-teaching, non-researching
positions?  Isn't that what the term "tenured deadwood" refers to?

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:25:00 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Young pen-pal sought
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On Mon, 28 Dec 1992, Dan Lester wrote:

> ms. harwelll.....i'm confooosed.....what happened to bandwidth pig?

Still oinkin', just like the Energizer Pig.

> or at least to bandw.panam.edu????

It was running when I checked on it 2 hours ago...

> whats this tenet crap?

It's UNIX, ok? Don't tease me! It has a Pine mailer, which shames VMS
mail.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:47:21 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Gif!
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> but I failed to note therein the very important fact that in this dialect
> "sexy" means "discernibly male".

Look at peter.gif.  The person in that picture is more than just discernibly
male -- he's a discernibly sexy male.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 03:01:38 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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              25 Dec 92 17:44:41 -0800. <9212260145.AA26558@sics.se>

 >I think you mean my inability to satisfy your misinterpretation.

  No, I was just referring to your present emphasis on how deep
beliefs are found among the good guys, and how nasty fanatics don't
really have deep beliefs. As to whether we mean the same thing by
depth (or, as you prefer to put it, DEPTH) this is not a matter we
need to pursue. For again, the point is only that the bad guys also have
deep beliefs. Of course, if you now wish to deny that paradigmatic bad
guys like Hitler can have deep beliefs, that is a different matter.

  >Nonsense. I allowed a meaning for the word mockery that involved a
  >playful, inoffensive teasing.

  Yes indeed, but our notions of inoffensive teasing and of disrespect are,
I suspect, too much at variance for your question to be very meaningful.
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 19:37:11 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: This ere t-shirt
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              Harwell" at Jan 2, 93 12:17 pm

From the screen of 'Anne Burton Harwell'...
> > > 'high-profile'?  Is that a coment about my stomach, eh fizzy?  Grrrr!
> > Only when you are lying down Graham.
> I never in all my life. Standing up = ??

(Any sexual innuendo implied by the first message was totally accidental
 and not intended.)

But the term "beached whale" came to mind...

Fiz.
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:21:52 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Electronic Literacy
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> For the historically disadvantaged, what is the Prep H. project?

A joint effort by people at various places around the world to do a
sociological study of lists.  When a couple of WORDS-Lers expressed wild
paranoia about having their words read, WORDS-L was dropped from the tentative
list of interesting lists to look at.  I'm not sure what has happened with
the project since then.  The idea for the project was conceived last May or
June on the CMC list.  Another list, PROJECT-H, was created for the people
actively interested in the project.

> McLuhan's global village analogy. I suspect formality in a list
> doesn't work, because electronic interchange is more verbal than
> written.

I think it depends upon the list.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:34:00 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: new year's eve
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> So, am i the only one without a date on this
> most fethive of eves?
>
> jenna shakin' and bakin' in the kitchen tonite

Nope.  I'm here.  We old folks went out to eat, but are back home again.
What are you baking?  Shake 'N Bake Chicken?
doris
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:55:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Let the sniping begin!

> I thought he was specifically criticized for not pointing enough women
> to cabinet posts?  (I don't blame him for being p.o.'d at this criticism,
> btw.  It does seem awfully early to be giving up hope!)

Yeh, not enough women, you're right.  Did you notice he used the q-
word?!?  Too bad you have hope to give up ... he's from Hot Springs,
remember?

Oh, the new _American Spectator_ arrived today.  The publisher claims
a bigger paid circulation than _New Republic_.  _Spectator_ has a
sense of humor, too.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 13:42:07 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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> think.  Yesterday's was the Arizona/Baylor game, which was a great one.  This

I'm wearing a blue sweatshirt that says "Baylor Mom."  Just knew you'd
want to know that bit of information. :-)
doris
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:05:50 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Christmas wrapping
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>Although the tree is still up and probably will remain so until this
>weekend, the wrapping and bows have all been cleared away.  Am I the only
>one who religiously saves the bows for reuse?  I usually buy at least one

Not by a long shot! Not only do I save the bows, I also save any of the
wrapping paper that hasn't been totally destroyed and reuse it for birthday
presents during the year. I have some sheets that have been recycled five
times. This year  I lashed out and bought some of the more expensive foil
wrapping that doesn't crease or rip and the sticky-tape is easily removed
without marking the foil..... I'm hoping that will have a much longer life -
it all survived it's first Christmas in any case. :-)

>ndh (who found out that Christmas with a grandchild is much more fun than
>Christmas was without one)

That's part of the reason I want to get my sons married off (or at least
paired up) before Helen outgrows her child's view of Christmas.

Carolyn
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