On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:32:03 +0000, Owain
wrote:

Phil Addison wrote:
Can you still buy good ol' rubber bands?

/Buy/?

I pick up from the pavement the ones dropped by the postpeople.

They've changed recently from 'natural' colour to pinky-purple.

There were loads of complaints from the public a while ago about
posties dropping rubber bands all over the place - Royal Mail claim
that they are now bio-degradable.
(Which of course doesn't mean that they aren't unsightly and dangerous
to pets.)

Thirty or forty years ago rubber bands seemed to last for ever -
nowadays it would appear that they're only intended for very
short-term use.

--
Frank Erskine
Sunderland