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   From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:41:19 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   wrote:   
      
   >kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:   
   >>Your Name   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>The main usage is to put over people's mouths, and around their wrists    
   >>>and ankles when they're being held hostage in a TV show / movie.  ;-)   
   >>   
   >>Don't do this!  Use proper gaffer's tape: it will hurt much less when it   
   >>is removed and it won't leave goo behind like athletic tape.    
   >   
   >Even gaffer's tape will leave a residue if it is attached   
   >to a surface for a sufficiently long duration.   
      
   I think it is possible you are not distinguishing between "what the   
   audience is supposed to think" from "what is actually going on".   
      
   Remember: the map is /not/ the terrain.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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