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Lu wrote:
>Forget wallet cards and tattoos -- I'm going to have my pants
>modified so there's one (zipper-closed) pocket with the current
>Nautical Almanac in it, another pocket with a sextant in it (a
>full-fledged Astro might be a bit too heavy, though) and a third
>pocket with a solar-powered calculator and a solar-powered quartz watch.

Ha! That reminds me of a true story. Some anthropologists in the
jungles of central Africa heard of a tribe which had so far been
undiscovered and so spent some weeks slashing their way through the
dense forest to make 'first contact'. They arrived at the clearing
where the tribe lived and were taken to see the chief, who surprised
them by speaking excellent English. The chief was a young man, and
his father had sent him to England to be educated as he figured that
the next chief of his tribe should know about the outside world.

Most of the people of the tribe went about naked, but the chief wore
an alarm clock, which was suspended by a piece of vine around his
waist. The anthropologists were fascinated by this accoutrement and
finally got around to asking the chief why he wore an alarm clock
around his waist? The chief replied that a watch was too small to
cover his private parts!

Geoffrey

   

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