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From: djbrady@westfort.UUCP (Docile Jim_Brady)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Summary: by Kentuckey Fried Disk
Keywords: Battered disks
Message-ID: <138@westfort.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 88 05:48:00 GMT
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Reply-To: westfort!djbrady@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: Outside the Asylum at the Western Fortress
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Well, this is *NOT* an urban legend; I still have the disks to prove it! 
 
I have a bad habit of at times eating and modeming concurrently.  I happened 
to be eating some fried chicken and inadvertently picked up a disk at the 
reading ellipse.  I knew that I got grease on the front side, but was not 
aware that I had deposited a small piece of batter on the back side.  The 
drive made the darndest noise when that disk was being read.  I eventually 
found and removed the piece of batter.  Oddly, I was able to reformatt the 
"battred" disk, but was not able to make the original format on the disk that 
had only the grease. 

BTW, I was put on Teletrial locally for that faux pas.