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Re: Bulk Purchases: 100 lb too small
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Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:57:58 GMT
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> writes:
The "funny" column of the WSJ today (9/10/02) tells how Adult Fans of Silly
Putty organized bulk purchases and annoyed Dow Chemical with small 100lb
orders. "Ten pounds is bigger than your head" says Jeff Kivert. But fans
express frustration with the 1/2oz quantity sold at retail and some mix
their own colors.

We did that about 10 years ago when I was working at Apple.  Our whole
department went in on a bulk purchase of Silly Putty.

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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(...) That's cool. I should include that Silly Putty is what it is after Binney-Smith packages it. Dow calls it 3179 Dilatant Compound. (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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The "funny" column of the WSJ today (9/10/02) tells how Adult Fans of Silly Putty organized bulk purchases and annoyed Dow Chemical with small 100lb orders. "Ten pounds is bigger than your head" says Jeff Kivert. But fans express frustration with (...) (22 years ago, 10-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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