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Does anyone remember being able to purchase
"Your own pet Rhesus Monkey for $29.95" in the 
back of Popular Science/Mechanics etc ...?

Chris <me@my.net> wrote in article <36D4C939.968CA074@my.net>...
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> Bill wrote:
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> > On 25 Feb 1999 03:14:23 +0200, ftjiysdy@ASXserver.net wrote:
> > >
> > >Skin Reveal 0.9 beta is HERE !
> >
> > Sounds like it works about as well as the X-Ray glasses I bought from the back
> > of a Comic book.
> 
> Lol- must be the same ones I got as a kid too - they had ostrich feathers in the lenses that diffused
> the vision, creating an *apparent* double.
> 
> > >The image will not always be clear and will work only 85% of the times, but hey... it's worth it.
> >
> > Only if you're selling the software for the same price as the glasses- $2.95,
> > I believe.
> 
> Isn't  that how Gates did it?
> 
> > Got any Hot Gum or sneeze powder?
> 
> Or the redoubtable wind up hand buzzer - my favorite.
> 
> > -BK
> > Berthoud
> 
> But it wasn't until I got truly curious and took a hammer to my Magic 8 Ball only to find it consisted
> of a small bottle of ink with an octahedron(maybe it was a dodecahedron, can't recall) inside -
> another myth laid to rest - ah well...some years later puberty would arrive and the real rigors of
> scientific method  would be tested.
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