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   From: strider@usit.net   
      
   On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 19:18:06 -0700 (PDT), Marc Lermin   
    wrote:   
      
   >You see, it tangles in with other fibers and breaks off   
   >into the air gradually! It even stays intertwined with your   
   >body hair. Think of that next time you lean on a plaster wall.   
   >Yes, that quaint "plaster and lathe" you thought was superior   
   >to sheetrock is 30% asbestos if it was made or patched   
   >between 1920 and 1980! Ah, the glories of the affectation of   
   >being urban vermin! And you like playing with the bottom of   
   >your shoes while you talk on the phone at work? Just after you   
   >walked all over that white construction debris on the sidwalk?   
   >You got it, dude! 30% asbestos! All over your belongings so   
   >you can pass it on to your grandchildren as well!   
   >Hey, isn't historic preservation just grand! Let's preserve   
   >all the toxic stuff to pas son to our grandchildren so we can   
   >say we so nobly resisted urban "sprawl"! Don't tear those toxic   
   >antiquities down! We want to keep on breathing them!   
   >Isn't urban affectation, grand! But then again, if you're   
   >reading this, you don't know, because urban luddites   
   >hate the internet because it keeps them from experiencing   
   >the stimulation of urban cockaroach life!   
   >And speaking of cockaroaches and pidgeons and rodents,   
   >your smaller fellow urban vermin (that you inevitably eat),   
   >they make nesting material from asbestos and spread it all over.   
   >Yes, you do eat them - they are everywhere in your   
   >beloved sprawl-less city! And when your office moved, did you see   
   >the debris-strwen sidewalk they parked your files on?   
   >   
   ***snip of about 20 lines of wasted space****   
   >   
   >They used to put asbestos in: bakelite, plaster of Paris,   
   >sheetrock joints, ceiling "sand" paint, foot-callous pumice,   
   >wall shingles, floor tiles, pipe insulation, skyscraper ceiling   
   >insulation, floortile (black-tar-like) "mastic" (even under   
   >ceramic bath tiles), and roofing shingles. They spread it with   
   >"don't ask, don't tell" electricians and dust-covered   
   >workers on your busses and dumpster leftovers on your sidewalk.   
      
   ***snip of YAHOO spam***   
      
   There are far worse concerns in life than residual asbestos in the   
   environment.  I suggest that you find more pertinent things to lose   
   sleep over.   
      
   Strider   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)