suspended in guffaw

[gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert)]

hmm, can't believe we're still wrapped up in this topic -- i guess
we're kinda stuck...

just BTW, but a "gaffer" is a person who rigs lights for movies, 
etc. -- they're the people who drop wrenches on the lighting designer
when s/he decides that all those red gels need to be replaced with
blue ones...  real "gaffer's tape" is usually cloth-based, designed 
to withstand the intense heat of professional lamps, tends to
be black, and doesn't leave a goopy residue all over your equipment
and self.  the silvery, plastic, gooey, prone-to-melting-and-wadding-
up stuff you find in the average hardware store gets it's name, 
duck tape, from its use in wild fowl hunting -- in the wilds of
Minnesota you can vast webs of the stuff, with the hapless birds
firmly ensnared...

Craig offers:
> (Oh, and Chris, I'll trade you my :-) for one of yours!) 
ah, shoot!  and i need just one more :-) to complete the set.
don't suppose you'll take a  ;-}  instead?

well, i gotta go clean all the gooey stuff of my mic cables --
i can't afford to be suspended in gaffa:  i use the cheap stuff
from the hardware store...

footah!
-greg -- gb10@gte.com --
	"a woman drew her long black hair out tight
	 and fiddled whisper music on those strings
	 and bats with baby faces in the violet light
	 whistled, and beat their wings" -- T.S. Eliot