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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Ties, meaning of
Message-ID: <330@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 14:38:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 14:38:41 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The CAT Factory
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Summary: 

In article <667@umn-cs.UUCP> woolsey@umn-cs.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey) writes:
>While we're on the subject of decoding sartorial messages, I'd like to receive 
>a consensus from the net sagacity on whatever meanings may be attributed to 
>the manner and locations in which jewelry, specifically rings, are worn.

I don't wear any rings these days.  The message (if it can be called  that)
is that my skin chemically attacks almost any metal brought in contact with
it.  Silver turns black in under 30 minutes, bronze simply melts away  over
time,  I've  even  been  known to tarnish gold, depending on its alloys.  A
former SO once made me a beautiful sterling silver ring.  After seeing what
my  skin  did to it, she borrowed it back and had it plated with rhodium to
prevent tarnishing.  My skin ate the rhodium off it and even took  out  the
epoxy she used to hold the stone in place.

Thus, I've given up on jewelry for the most part.  If anyone wants to  know
things about me that can be signalled by jewelry, they'll just have to ask.
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