Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!mit-eddie!barmar From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: clothes hanger metamorphosis Message-ID: <2199@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 01:04:08 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2199 Posted: Wed Jun 20 01:04:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:36:18 EDT References: <1942@sdccsu3.UUCP> <862@houxz.UUCP> Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 12 In article <862@houxz.UUCP> halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE) writes: >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. The way I heard it (I believe in the Journal of Irreproduceable Results) is that hangers are born as paper clips, and they grow into bicycle frames. Maybe socks are the eggs, and washers are hatcheries? -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar