2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
3:24 p.m.
On Thursday 02 February 2006 06:20 pm, Philip Pemberton wrote:
It's the beauty of the thing that's appealing
though. You'll never find a
clock in a shop that looks anywhere near as nice - everything you see these
days is plastic, plastic and more plastic.
Yeah, and some of those plastics degrade over time, too. Get brittle, and
fall apart...
I knew a guy who used to collect and refurbish old radios, but he didn't
bother with anything that had plastic cases.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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