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   Christopher J. Henrich to gossg@gossg.org   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   14 Jan 14 22:48:44   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: chenrich@monmouth.com   
      
   In article , Greg Goss   
    wrote:   
      
   > Your Name  wrote:   
   >   
   > >Just pretend you're a parcel, stick a label on your forehead, and book   
   > >yourself on a courier delivery service ... just make sure it's not a   
   > >holiday weekend, otherwise you might get left in the van until the next   
   > >working day.  ;-)   
   >   
   > A recent Daily Dish post featured pictures of kids in mailbags from an   
   > era when you COULD stick stamps to the kid's sweater and hand him to   
   > the mailman.   
   I guess if your kid weighed no more than one ounce (28 grams) a 2-cent   
   stamp would have sufficed.   
      
   Daily Dish ... I'm not familiar with it ... does it contain Onions?   
      
   >   
   > But the Dish puts out so many posts each day that I can't find the   
   > article.   
      
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   Chris Henrich    
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