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From: "Cary Ginell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] I can't resist posting this
> Hmm. A shellac smoothie. Might cause a stir...
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> Cary Ginell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Tait <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30 pm
> Subject: [ARSCLIST] I can't resist posting this
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> I think it's interesting and, I hope, amusing.
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> Until I retired last autumn I was an announcer at WFMT in Chicago. Part of
> the job was preparing regular newscasts. We had three sources: Associated
> Press; City News Bureau for local news; and Reuters. Reuters not only had the
> most thorough stores; they also sent stories that verged upon the whimsical
> and weird. Including the next, which I keep framed on the wall of one of the
> rooms here that is filled with 78s.
>
> There is no year given. Probably the late '70s or early '80s. The rest is:
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> DRINK
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> Shepton Mallet, England, July 2, Reuter -- A magistrate's court here today
> was told of the local destitutes' top drink -- boiled phonograph records.
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> Scotsman Thomas Duncan, 50, said the hit beverage was made by breaking up
> and boiling old 78 r.p.m. records.
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> Duncan was jailed for 30 days for stealing two brass vases from a house
> where he went for water to dilute his favorite drink.
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> The police analyst in this town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of
> Bristol is to study Duncan's claims.
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> REUTERS 1935
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> Another idea about what do with those 78s nobody wants normally, perhaps?
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> Don Tait
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