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- From: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
- Subject: Re: TELEBRAS
- Reply-To: thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com (Thomas Rush)
- Organization: Compaq Computer Corporation
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:30:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173028.11846@cpqhou.compaq.com>
- References: <1992Nov18.131916.14468@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.131916.14468@cbnews.cb.att.com> lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.204531.7705@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> keith@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Keith Hawkins) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov10.180221.13784@oracle.us.oracle.com>,
- >>kbalasub@sparcle.oracle.com (Kris Balasubramanian) writes:
- >>|>
- >>|> Hi,
- >>|> This is a telephone company in Brazil.
- >>
- >>Whew!! Good thing you said what the TELEBRAS company does. For a
- >>second
- >>there I thought they manufactured distributed undergarments! :-)
- >
- >Which puts me in mind of Memory Metals. They held several patents on metal
- >alloys which if deformed and then heated would return to their original
- >shape. Well, you know how when you wash your undies the bras always come
- >out looking like dishrags instead of bras? Memory metals started selling
- >their alloys to companies that made underwire bras and then when you ran
- >your bras through the dryer they came out looking like bras again. Neat.
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- So maybe they could be called, "Mammary Metals?"
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