1994-04-21 - Re: BEST Inc.

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 94 03:02:19 PDT
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> > Then someone decided to make cheap eel-skin billfolds.  They used
> > a different species.  One which erases the magnetic strips.
> 
> Is this a troll?
> 
>    Eli   ebrandt@hmc.edu
> 

Nope,  for the life of me, I couldn't figure what was going on.
Then it was covered on one of those pseudo-news shows.  The
non-erasing wallets used to be very expensive.  These are the
real cheapos.  If my failing memory recalls correctly, the eels
are from the Philippines.

Strange but true. :-)





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