Han:

They may simply be honoring Ray Bradbury's famous book, "Fahrenheit 451,"
which is a major classic. I even have a first edition of it. As it was
always a paperback, I suspect it isn't really as valuable as I would like.
Its original price was 35 cents, by the way.

Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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British American Tobacco has opened a shop in Amsterdam for people who are
addicted to their poisonous weed. They also practised an idea: call this
shop "451 graden Fahrenheit" (graden means degrees). They say that is the
temperature at which cigarette paper ignites; only, they use the wrong
scale.

Han




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