From: ctbishop@earthlink.net   
      
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    Thomas Prufer  wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:54:11 -0000 (UTC), Moe Trin   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >>Oh, and I thought red dice meant "will race", black dice "won't race".   
   > >>But I probably read that here...   
   > >   
   > >But what about the pink dice with black dots?  The "Encyclopedia Of Bad   
   > >Taste" (ISBN 0-06-092121-8) from 1990 says J. C. Whitney sold a ton of   
   > >those, before paring back their offered choices to just white with black   
   > >dots.   
   >   
   > J.C. Whitney! The catalog of my youth! Everything in it, printed on cheapest   
   > newsprint, and the whole thing like the back mail-order pages of a comic   
   book,   
   > only with more motor oil: skull-shaped door lock buttons, Beetle camshafts   
   for   
   > increased performance, gas-mileage-increasing carb magnets, drill-driven oil   
   > pumps to change the oil via the dipstick tube, all kinds of neat-o stuff.   
   >   
   > I ordered, so they probably still send three catalogs simultaneously to that   
   > address...   
   >   
   > And Edmund Scientific, back when they still sold fun and cheap things...   
   >   
   > Dunno about pink dice, black dice, or red dice: I had an AMC Pacer, and in no   
   > way was that in any way, shape or form a "racer".   
   >   
   > It did have no aircon, in Warshington DC, which made for interesting summer   
   > experiments in solar energy uptake.   
      
   Wasn't there, back in the day, someone who took thermometers to a car   
   lot and got permission to test the temps in a black and white car? That   
   is, in two cars, one black exterior and the other, white exterior.   
      
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