Well... we had all our doors and widows taped for the Big Smoke which descended on Canberra for the New Year. I would not swap it for TP. Anyway, you can't eat gold either. You can't even build a half-decent clock from it! Yet people kill for it. Humans are weird.

On 2/04/2020 10:38, Bill van Dijk wrote:

On that thought, duct tape is always proposed as the solution to everything, but believe me, it is no substitute for toilet paper either!

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Ha! :)

You can't eat Nixie tubes, nor can you use them as toilet paper!

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:22 PM Marcin Adamski <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Maybe they are better than gold in the time of uncertainty?

    On 2/04/2020 05:34, Nicholas Stock wrote:

        
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1970s-Nixie-Tube/274286861824?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D86ee928b90b644d19404f60a62df1f46%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D15%26mehot%3Dnone%26sd%3D303524459868%26itm%3D274286861824%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A422655be-7447-11ea-a73c-74dbd180dcd2%7Cparentrq%3A3704e12c1710aa669621f34afffe1816%7Ciid%3A1

        This made me chuckle a bit then shake my head in dismay....

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