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--- "Carnall, Jane" <Jane -dot- Carnall -at- compaq -dot- com> wrote:
> >The atmosphere in a docs department sure could be a witch's brew back then
> >with all that developer, fixer, etc., hot wax, rubber cement, Bestine
> >(hexane), perchlorethylene in Sno-Pake, who knows what in old-style Liquid
> >Paper, and the smelly stuff inside electrostatic plotters.
>
> Yeah... makes you wonder why "mad as a hatter" (from the mercury vapours)
> didn't become "mad as an editor"... <g>
You know, this explains why some of us are as crazy as we are! Especially the
"more experienced" among us. <g>
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