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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Finding Pipes
Message-ID: <17591@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 88 19:02:58 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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In article <12744@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>On a more serious note: people put pipes where it makes the most sense
>to put them.  Since you probably have at least a very similar idea about
>what makes sense, you probably have a good idea where the pipes were
>put in the first place.  You may not know that you know it, of course.

      And this is why dowsing sometimes works.  Tests have established that 
dowsers who can find utility pipes can't find pipes deliberately buried at 
random locations for test purposes.  See "Flim-Flam", by Randi Zwinge.

					John Nagle