Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Amusing ad Message-ID: <9002@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 13:44:10 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.9002 Posted: Wed Mar 6 13:44:10 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:42:47 EST References: <473@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 20 Re eternal playing cards: I bought some of those plastic cards many years ago. (I think the brand was "KEM" or "KEN" or the like.) They do last forever, but cost a lot. Since you can buy new decks of cards for 50 cents or so on coupon sales at drugstores, or for 10 cents or so at yard and garage sales, though, the durability may not really be worth the high cost. Also, these have now lasted 20 years because I don't use them. They are so slick that when you deal, they slide off the cards already dealt, off the table, and across the floor to sneak under a bookcase or buffet and hide, snickering quietly at your attempts to retrieve them. (My world is anthropomorphic, isn't yours?) My card-playing friends, at the time I bought them, preferred that we use the old-fashioned regular cards. All in all, another solution for a non-existent problem... Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA "'Intermediate vector bosons!', he swore lustily..."