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  2. Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
  3. Subject: Re: Too heavy for scales (was: Re: Fatman returns (hee-hee-hee)
  4. Message-ID: <17525@pitt.UUCP>
  5. From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 17:40:17 GMT
  7. Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
  8. Sender: news@cs.pitt.edu
  9. References: <1992Oct29.111740.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <63620078@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
  10. Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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  12.  
  13. In article <63620078@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks) writes:
  14. >The local diet program uses an electronic freight scale with > 400
  15. >pounds capacity.  Don't know how high it goes; didn't *want* to know.
  16. >
  17.  
  18. 25 years ago, I pinned the scale at the induction center during my
  19. draft physical.  (It only went up to 300 lbs.)  I was pleased that
  20. I wouldn't be going to Viet Nam, but horrified that I was over
  21. 300 lbs.  (I hadn't weighed in years.)  Denial no longer being
  22. an option, I found a freight scale that showed I was 335lbs.  
  23. Most shipping departments have them.
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  26. Gordon Banks  N3JXP      | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
  27. geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu   |  to supply you with an understanding." -S.Johnson
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