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- From: geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM (Geoff Miller)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: False economy
- Keywords: we don' need no steenking compensators!
- Message-ID: <lg57l1INNrp3@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:12:49 GMT
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- In article <BxL5F8.ABD@vcd.hp.com> dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe) writes:
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- >Unfortunately, human behaviour being what it is, few people ever take a
- >half-used packet -- after all, our co-workers might have poisoned that
- >packet or they might have Republican cooties and shouldn't be trusted.
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- I see the same thing here with both products, and also with donuts on
- Wednesdays. (Nested peeve: we used to have better donuts, as well as
- croissants and bear claws, back in the halcyon days of `88 and `89, but
- entropy took its inevitable toll.)
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- Have you ever noticed that when people buy a newspaper at a vending machine,
- they never want to take the top copy? I don't understand this -- like you
- said, it's as though they fear it has cooties. Another weird fetish I've
- noticed is the way some people won't answer a phone in mid-ring. They'll
- place their hand on it, but they won't actually lift the handset until the
- pause between rings.
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- Geoff
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