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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: Amusing ad
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 13:44:10 EST
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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

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