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 TR>> Do you remember when you were in Vietnam seeing a typical
 TR>> `hooch' in a Vietnamese village made of bamboo framing and
 TR>> flattened beer or soda cans for the walls?

 BA> AAMOF I do - although I was only IN Vietnam for two months
 BA> in 1965 (TDY from Okinawa).  Note that people today may
 BA> wonder how they did that; back then cans were made of metal
 BA> cylinders with separate ends, remove the ends and unsolder
 BA> the joint and it can be flattened.  Today's cans have only
 BA> one separate end and no solder joint, they can't be
 BA> flattened as those were.

 If they could you wouldn't much want to. You wouldn't believe
 how thin they are. How flimsy. And they keep making them
 thinner. Cutting off half a thousandth of an inch at a time. Or
 less.

 I bought a canned coffee drink a couple years back, in a three
 piece can. I was amazed how heavy it was. And how strong. I had
 forgotten. I figued you could drink a couple of those, then jack
 up your car and put those under it instead of blocks.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... A man after my own flashback.
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