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"Pamela S. Follett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Pre-patinated plastic gumby block w/ coin slot <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 31 Dec 2004 07:27:56 -0500
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(S)He probably just gets the cold shoulder.

- Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Barton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 19:48
Subject: Re: [BP] Dying in Vermont


> So what does the catalog say about them?  "Our cold storage will keep
> Grandma colder than the competition?" I suppose if there are such things
> somebody has to sell them, I don't think Westinghouse or Fridgidaire has
> them in the local showroom.  Now there's a job for some enterprising soul,
> human cold storage unit salesman.  Wonder what the party is like for
> salesman of the year?  Ruth
>
>
>
>
> At 11:29 PM -0500 12/29/04, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 12/29/2004 10:39:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> 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.
>
> Ralph
>
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> Ruth Barton
> [log in to unmask]
> Dummerston, VT
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