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Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>
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Pre-patinated plastic gumby block w/ coin slot <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:30:34 -0500
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>     Now I think the mortuaries have cold storage for bodies.  Ruth
>
> Not only do the mortuaries have them, but Sweet's Catalogue has the
> ads for them.  You could look it up.
>
> Sweet's, Ruth, is a huge set of books (huger before they were all put
> onto CD's) that contain literature from manufacturers of all sorts of
> building components-- including autopsy room equipment, concrete
> blocks, brass handrails, doors, etc.  The favorite in Architecture
> School was to look at the sauna brochures-- ornamental young ladies in
> small (or no) towels showing one how saunas (or shower stalls,
> bathtubs, etc) related to the human form.

So, tell me Ralph, do architects rather than tearing pages out of the
Sears catalog, or the Tibetan Book of the Dead, tear them out of old Sweets?
You should let jc know if they do.

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