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Letter: Letter

Published 9 May 1998

From Mark Roberts

You can move heavy furniture over floors without scratching them by placing
CDs between the legs and the floor, and using them as sliders; you can make
lampshades with them; you can use them as unbreakable camping mirrors; you can
make trendy sunglasses out of them; you can stick loads of them together to make
a huge Smarties tube; you can use them at the Olympics if you forget your
discus; and you can throw them in the air and take photos of “flying
saucers”.

the_bored@geocities.com

Issue no. 2133 published 9 May 1998

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