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Skriven 2007-07-29 21:14:05 av Iva (2678.babylon5)
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Ärende: Re: 2 Days Til Comic-con and 1 week until TLT! (Rant/Blog-typethinking 
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"Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message 
news:0001HW.C2D28B1200950E37F0182648@news.verizon.net...
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:59:06 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote
> (in article <1185742746.919238.35230@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> On Jul 28, 6:35 pm, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
>>> Ya know...I think you could learn everything you needed to know 
>>> about a
>>> person, back in the day, by the double album* they chose as a 
>>> surface for
>>> cleaning their pot.  :-)
>>
>> Usually Led Zepplin, "Houses of the Holy".  It seemed appropriate.
>>
>>> (You use a _double_ album so that when someone comes in who isn't 
>>> supposed
>>> to
>>> see you with pot, you could immediately flip it closed.)
>>
>> Now I always assumed people used double albums because they made 
>> the
>> cleaning process itself easier (with one flap as the "working" 
>> area,
>> one to keep your table/lap clean and the crease to catch the stems,
>> seeds and dirt.)  As I recall, given the quantities we cleaned in
>> college, flipping the album cover closed quickly would just result 
>> in
>> two puffs of green and brown plant matter shooting out of either 
>> end
>> of the jacket and off the table, while doing nothing to conceal the
>> associated plastic sandwich bags, pipes, and rolling papers, not to
>> mention the bong in the corner.  (That we camouflaged by sticking 
>> fake
>> flowers in it and hoping it passed as a vase. <g>)
>>
>> We know WAY too much about this stuff.  <g>  Of course, that could
>> explain much about our personalities today. <vbg> <<
>
> Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. II.  And, yes, it does explain much. 
> <g>

I was always partial to Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick, the newspaper 
version. <g>

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