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- Steve Jones� wrote:

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

Yes - my parents constrained me to a chameleon in a box from the circus (think it was at the Coliseum back
then) - he lived to a ripe old (pre-Bud) age of 3 years. Meal worms were, however, not always easy to find.

And the sea horses lasted almost a year - who knows why?

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> Chris <me@my.net> wrote in article <36D4C939.968CA074@my.net>...
> >
> >
> > Bill wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> >