On Sun, 13 May 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> At 16:56 11-5-01 -0400, Gary Nunn wrote:
>
> >I have seen some stupid things offered for auction on ebay, but this one is
> >in the top 3...
> >
> >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1236094816
> >
> >Some entrepreneur is selling 13 AOL CDs - you know, the free ones that we
> >all get in the mail - and some sucker has actually bid on them.
>
> Damn! Only a few weeks ago, I threw away a bunch of free CompuServe CD's.
> So much for Junior's college fund...
Forget the college fund -- those freebies can be used to make great
Christmas decorations. One of our neighbors saved all his AOL CDs and
used them to enhance his yard decorations. He had lights strung in a
couple of trees. (Probably liveoaks.) He'd take 2 CDs, put them together
data side out (so it was all nice and shiny), ran string through them
together, and then tied them dangling from branches. They'd slowly spin
around and reflect the tree lights. It was very pretty.
Julia
