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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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...
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> I think it's interesting and, I hope, amusing.
> 
>  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:
> 
>  DRINK
> 
>  Shepton Mallet, England, July 2, Reuter -- A magistrate's court here  today 
> was told of the local destitutes' top drink -- boiled phonograph  records.
> 
>  Scotsman Thomas Duncan, 50, said the hit beverage was made by  breaking up 
> and boiling old 78 r.p.m. records.
> 
>  Duncan was jailed for 30 days for stealing two brass vases from a  house 
> where he went for water to dilute his favorite drink.
> 
>  The police analyst in this town about 20 miles (32 kilometers) south  of 
> Bristol is to study Duncan's claims.
> 
>  REUTERS 1935
> 
>  Another idea about what do with those 78s nobody wants normally,  perhaps?
> 
>  Don Tait
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