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Re: HEY, WHAT'S THE BEIGE IDEA??

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From: Jon Davis
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 00:00
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But even spray paint won't work on a perfectly square box.  I want something
shaped artistically, too... giving a square box a paint job isn't my idea of
beauty... I imagine it would just look like somebody took an ugly beige box
and spray-painted it.  Yuck.

Jon Davis

jmarch wrote in message <6iku5o$fjn$2@supernews.com>...
>Jon Davis wrote in message ...
>>A year and a half ago I came across a popular computer magazine (like PC
>>Magazine, but it seems *not* PC Magazine, although I could still be
>>mistaken) that had a short little product-article thingy on a company that
>>sells "designer cases", or computer cases that were "rebellious" to the
>>boring beige computer cases everyone has today.  They included dark teal,
>>dark maroon, and black, and were very beautifully rounded and shaped.  I
>>want this in my living room!
>-snip-
>
>You know, there's this wonderful invention out now called "spray paint"...
>
>Better yet: take your outer shell on, say, a minitower to a local airbrush
>artist and tell him to have a blast with it.
>
>Jim March
>
>
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From: "Jon Davis" <nbcomm@REMOVEME.bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: HEY, WHAT'S THE BEIGE IDEA??
Date: 1998/05/09
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