--- In [email protected], Aaron Weintraub 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.htm
> 
> Claim:   During a photo opportunity at a 1988 grocers' convention, 
President 
> George Bush was "amazed" at encountering supermarket scanners for 
the first 
> time.
> 
> Status:   False. 
> 
> ....
> Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being 
shown 
> then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that 
could weigh 
> groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.
> ....

You're KIDDING me.  I remember seeing videotape of this event, and 
it sure looked like Bush I was awed by a regular scanner to me.  But 
Snopes is pretty damn reliable.

Aaron, you have just caused a major shift in my view of the world.






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