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From: falk@sun.uucp (Ed Falk)
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Subject: Foreign grad student
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 01:49:30 EST
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True story:

My girlfriend, who was a materials engineering student told me about
a Korean grad student she knew who was doing his thesis on a material
known as "filled latex", which is a kind of polymer that has nodules
of another kind of polymer imbedded in its matrix (whatever that means).

The problem was, that this grad student couldn't find any of this
material to do his experiments with.  Finally, someone told him that
certain brands of condoms were made out of this material, but he
didn't remember which brands.

Well, this grad student went to the nearest drug store, and in the
best English he could muster, asked for "filled rubbers".

The druggist responded, "I can sell you the rubbers, but you'll have
to fill them yourself".