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- From: dre@catnip.berkeley.ca.us (I would like to return this TOBACCONIST; it is scratched)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Self-serve gas stations
- Message-ID: <5645@catnip.berkeley.ca.us>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:44:53 GMT
- References: <8jkm2vp@lynx.unm.edu>
- Organization: The San Jose Home for Perverted Hackers
- Lines: 18
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- hillman@carina.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul24.192834.23276@spool.cs.wisc.edu> slv@camembert.cs.wisc.edu (Scott L. Vandenberg) writes:
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- >>In short, why the hell do we have to stand there and hold the damn
- >>handle? Why have they disabled the mechanism used to keep it pumping?
-
- >It's a method used to differentiate between BDIs and People-Who-Think-
- >Of-Using-Their-Gas-Cap-To-Hold-The-Handle-Up-While-They-Do-Something-
- >More-Meaningful-With-Their-Lives. Guess which one *you* are.
-
- Gee, Dan, if you're so smart, why don't you enlighten us about
- the pumps where the handles don't go up far enough in order to stuff
- the gas cap into them?
- --
- "If I had killed her when I had first thought about getting divorced,
- I would have been out of jail by now."
- -- A newly-divorced guy I met at a block party
-