msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (03/02/85)
While I was ripping out the cardboard advertising pages from my copy of the local edition of TV Guide, I accidentally read one of them. It was an advertisement for all-plastic playing cards. The text begins.... Play with cards that last a lifetime! These beautifully designed cards are made to last - they won't fray or warp! Use them again and again! And, yes, it ends.... 90-DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! Posted by Mark Brader. I'm going to send it to Consumer Reports's "Selling It", too.
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) (03/03/85)
i once had a set. actually, i still do. the cards last practically forever. the ink wears off in about 6 months (we used to play bridge with them every day at lunch). Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (03/06/85)
Re eternal playing cards: I bought some of those plastic cards many years ago. (I think the brand was "KEM" or "KEN" or the like.) They do last forever, but cost a lot. Since you can buy new decks of cards for 50 cents or so on coupon sales at drugstores, or for 10 cents or so at yard and garage sales, though, the durability may not really be worth the high cost. Also, these have now lasted 20 years because I don't use them. They are so slick that when you deal, they slide off the cards already dealt, off the table, and across the floor to sneak under a bookcase or buffet and hide, snickering quietly at your attempts to retrieve them. (My world is anthropomorphic, isn't yours?) My card-playing friends, at the time I bought them, preferred that we use the old-fashioned regular cards. All in all, another solution for a non-existent problem... Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA "'Intermediate vector bosons!', he swore lustily..."