On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:01:21 -0800, Winston
wrote:

Joseph Gwinn wrote:
In ,
wrote:

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Krups has the photo and the screaming and knashing
of teeth from hundreds of other customers. One more
unit is not going to change any minds.

O ye of little faith...

A most precise and accurate description.


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It would. I figure you would enjoy telling me how
you disassembled it in 40 seconds using only a
nail file, recast the housing using the 'lost wax'
process and reassembled it with machine screws
before lunchtime.

That would be *worth* the price of admission.

The boasting privilege is tempting, especially if fiction is allowed...

USENET: Where the truth is tolerated.

I like it!


(Psst. Larry! Teeshirt!)

Buy the rest of my "Clinton Never Exhaled" and/or "The Hindenberg, The
Titanic, The Clintons" tees and I'll get right on it. I need capital
for that process, son.


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I have a modest suggestion. There is a dead simple fully mechanical
approach with only one slow-moving part, the mortar and pestle. I bet a
granite model would work well, and last forever.

That is a most elegant and quiet approach.

"Gee, your coffee has the most subtle, Earthy, stony taste to it,
Joe."

--
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
-- Epictetus