Article: 32776 of alt.folklore.computers
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:35:15 +0100
From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@eircom.net>
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Subject: Re: Cost of computing in 1958?
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On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:08:14 -0500
Eric Sosman <Eric.Sosman@sun.com> wrote:

ES> you've lost me.  What manner of English culinary delicacy
ES> is a "loo roll?"

	It is softened cellulose fibre wrapped in sheets many times around
a tube of stiffened cellulose fibre. It is used to remove the clingy
aftermath of consuming the other delicacies from the non ingesting end of
the alimentary canal.

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