At 09:55 13-5-01 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
>On Sun, 13 May 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> > 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, I just had an idea for starting a college fund for your
*grandchildren*: save your kid's first set of teeth. Then, once your Junior
has become a rich and famous Nobel Prize winner, you can sell them as "The
Original Prof.Dr. Thompson's Baby Teeth". :)
Jeroen
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