Stranger than fiction?

[Susan Kline]

At 10:07 PM 10/04/1999 -0400, Jim wrote:
>Turns out he wanted to
>drill the edge of a quarter, affix the piano wire, then proceed to chump
>the phoneco for LD charges by repeatedly dropping and retrieving the
>quarter from pay phones. 

>At 08:11 PM 10/4/99 -0500, Nossaman wrote:
>>About twenty years ago, someone asked me for some music wire for this
>>purpose. I told him that the weed whacker used monofilament in the first
>>place to make it less likely that people would be able to hurt themselves
>>with the thing, and if he was going to bypass that safety feature, I didn't
>>intend to be a party to the amputation. I don't know if he abandoned the
>>idea or not, but at least I don't have any trophy toes on my wall.

Someone out here, building a new building for Hewlett Packard, wanted a 
whole roll of piano wire to true up the wall of the building! (Like snapping 
a chalk line, only MUCH longer, was my impression.) I sold him 
some cheap, which had a few rust spots on it. 

Susan