[rescue] Re: Way OT: Never trust Best Buy.

[George Adkins]

On Sunday 03 February 2002 09:53 pm, you wrote:
> On February 3, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > >   I've taken a pic and put it up at
> > > http://ti.neurotica.com/atomichron.jpg. It's a little difficult to get
> > > to at the moment, kinda tucked in by some other stuff so it's difficult
> > > to see...but I think you can get the general idea from the pic.
> >
> > Ah, I think I saw it when I was in MD?
>
>   Yup.  It was between the fireplace and the door to the computer room.
>
> > gunmetal steel gray kicks ass.  I *so badly want* an old-style 50s
> > "tanker desk".  Saw a couple of them at the local office surplus place
> > yesterday, but demand from Martha Stewart wannabees has the price up
> > around $175 each (most of the "normal" steelcase desks and such are
> > around $35-55).
>
>   Those Martha Stewart wannabees just need to get bent over one of those
> steel desks and banged HARD up the ass.  REALLY hard.  Then the prices
> will start tumbling down, as all the Martha Stewart wannabees discover
> that they can't live without it, and the next time you walk into a
> surplus place, every damn one of the desks will have at least one or
> two crazy Martha Stewart-style women draped over it.  Yearning.
>
>   Sheesh.
>
Something about office equipment firmly nailed on a desk ... ??