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On Tue, Jul 29, 1997 at 11:49:31AM -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote: > At 04:16 PM 07/29/97 +0100, Peter Galbavy wrote: > >> "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" > >For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like) > >delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ? > > There is a picture of prominently displayed at: > http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm > > The backhoe portion is the rear-end attachment used to dig > trenches. :-) So, is anyone from cat.com on the list? I'm sure they'd be happy to know that three people independently referenced _the exact same page_ to illustrate this scourge of our existence... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "People propose, science studies, technology Tampa Bay, Florida conforms." -- Dr. Don Norman +1 813 790 7592
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