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Re: FS : Mars promo sets
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Date: 
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:22 GMT
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Due to ingorance of the metric system, these candies will melt in your hands
and not in your mouth...

http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561451642-ba3

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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message
news:slrn7vhi1s.s9g.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu...
To my vast disappointment, these are Mars-the-candy promo items, not
Mars-the-planet. *sigh*

You're not alone.



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  Re: FS : Mars promo sets
 
(...) *INCHING* toward acceptance of the metric system..." [emphasis mine] I saw it noted somewhere that the 2-liter soda bottle is a 2-liter bottle and not a 2.11-quart bottle *only* because the imperial measurement is not given as an alternative. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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To my vast disappointment, these are Mars-the-candy promo items, not Mars-the-planet. *sigh* (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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