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Re: Now THIS is a vending machine
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:51:31 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/national/28AUTO.html
> http://www.shop2000online.com/home.htm
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> Shop Till Eggs, Diapers, Toothpaste Drop
> By JOHN TIERNEY
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> WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — It looks like a 7-Eleven in a box.
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> Early this morning, as the restaurants and clubs were shutting down in the
> Adams Morgan neighborhood here, a young waiter named Rick Roman joined a
> crowd gawking at the new attraction on the sidewalk: an 18-foot-wide vending
> machine.
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That is just so awesome. It's too bad it's so ugly. I wish companies would
realize that no, you do not have to make things look like a building. No,
you do not need frilly edges. Lace went out in the late 1800's. MAKE IT
LOOK LIKE A HUGE MONOLITHIC CUBE THAT GIVES OUT MILKS AND A YOGURT AND THAT
IS OKAY! IT IS OKAY TO HAVE FUTURE!!
Iain
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