Cyhist Jul 14 1996 C

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 23:34:04 -0700
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Hi...here's a note from FringeWare that might be appropirate for CM....
--A.J. Wright//meds002@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu

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Sent from: boris@well.com (Boris Groendahl)

Hi,

I hope this query will find its way into the FringeWare mailing list.

I luckily purchased one of the famous Cap'n Crunch whistles for an
exhibition about hacker culture in the museum I am working for. Now I
have to write an object description for this whistle.

The description of its alternative functionality is quite well
documented. But there is still a blank field on my card: the field where
producer, location of the producer, year of production of the described
item have to be filled in.

Quaker Oats, the producer of Cap'n Crunch cereals, proved extremely
uncooperative on this issue. Their PR manager told me he didn't want to
stir this thing up, given the criticism they received back in the
seventies. I don't buy they received any criticism for that reason, but
anyway.

Who produced this whistle?

Any ideas?

TIA,

Boris.

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