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From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: clothes hanger metamorphosis
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 15:11:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 15:11:54 1984
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> But that is all wrong.  Everybody knows that washing machines eat socks
> (but only one out of a pair), which are then spontaneously reincarnated
> in your closet as hangers.

Evolution in action!  When I was in college, beer can openers were the larval
stage of coat hangers.  The rise of the pop-top can and twist-off top have
forced coat hangers to develop another means of reproduction, and now the
can opener species is almost extinct.

Maybe I should have posted this to net.origins  :-)
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	Bill Jefferys  8-%
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