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               Atomic clocks up the ying yang, but no folders.

Spring [1] wanted to buy a simple folder—the type that has both pockets and
tangs. Tangs, by the way, are the small flaps of metal that you slip three-
holed punched paper over and fold down to keep the papers together—something
that is fairly common.

So we head over to the local Wal★Mart Superstore [2] that is now down the
street to look for a simple pocket and tang folder.

Now, a Wal★Mart superstore is the size of a small Latin American country so
we knew we might spend some serious time in there looking for a folder.

We found an entire supermarket. We found analog clocks that can set
themselves. We found piano wire. We found Jimmy Hoffa (although he didn't
look all that good so we put him back). But we did not find a simple pocket
and tang folder. Over an hour we spent.

We then went to Office Depot [3] but they had closed by the time we got
there. But the Publix [4] was still open where we found, in a grocery story a
simple pocket and tang folder.

So much for the Wal★Mart Superstore.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/10/31.3
[3] http://www.officedepot.com/
[4] http://www.publix.com/

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