In a message dated 10/12/00 8:13:10 AM Central Daylight Time,
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>  But what confuses me is that
>  there doesn't seem to be a for-sale solution for these two problems.

Sharpshooter,

It is a consipiracy... a seditious capitalist plot. There is money in keeping
the manufacturer/consumer pipeline filled w/ sandpaper and new chisels. The
more sandpaper curls and chisels dull the more consumers consume and
manufacturers facture. The sandpaper lobby has probably convinced Congress to
rule against promotion of decurler devices. How often have you heard of a
sandpaper recall due to untimely curling or delamination of aggregate causing
skinned knuckles?

Change in subject: last night my mother mentioned to me that during WW2 my
astigmatic grandmother was employed calibrating crosshairs on periscopes.

Shaman