There was a very famous d.j. in New York in the forties and fifties named Al 
"Jazzbeaux" Collins. He played progressive jazz and was, in his day, 
extremely influential in jazz music circles. Jazz became passé on the radio 
and he drifted into pop music and wound up on a Pittsburgh AM station (WTAE) 
when I lived there. He had a lot of goofy little shticks, but one of them 
was what he always referred to as the world's biggest ball of string--he 
took it to personal appearances and was always having people add to it. I 
never actually saw it; nor do I know how long it may have become; but I do 
know that it was hauled around in a trailer by one of the station's news 
vans.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Mel's Hole


Walt,

Good point.  Maybe that is why signals coming over the north pole have that
artic flutter.  It is passing through the earth to this side through Mel's
hole.  I saw a ball of string in a Ripple's Believe It Or Not book when I
could still see more than 40 years ago.  the ball was reported, as I recall,
to be many miles long.   It was 10 feet high and weighed too much to be
picked up by a human.


Phil.
K0NX