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From: chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is Bits)
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Subject: Re: no wut i hayt?
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 21:54:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 23 21:54:13 1985
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I strongly suggest that no one, whether pencil-necked or geek or pin-head or
jock or any combination or anything else, repeat, no one write anything to
offend any knitting circles: they're armed.  From _Knitting_Without_Tears_ by
Elizabeth Zimmerman: "To sharpen ... [a] needle, try the pencil sharpener and
sandpaper."  From the backcover: "Mrs. Zimmermann's main objective is to help
you become the master ..." {Sunset Magazine}.  This book has many practical
suggestions: "A #6 aluminum needle has been known to furnish an excellent
emergency shearpin for an outboard motor."  But you should not miss the last
sentence in that paragraph: "Then I had to spend hours re-pointing the needle
on the rocks, having nobly, but foolishly offered the *business end* [italics 
mine --lsc] instead of the knob end for sacrifice."

You see what I mean?

By the way, this is a highly useful book for any survivalists: after all, who's
going to knit your socks and sweaters in The Coming Dark Age when we no longer
can import from Korea?  (Not to mention what will you do when you run out of
shearpins for your outboard.) 

L S Chabot
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