Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!rew From: rew@hao.UUCP (Russell K. Rew) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: $2.00 diamond ring Message-ID: <861@hao.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 19:57:34 EST Article-I.D.: hao.861 Posted: Mon Feb 20 19:57:34 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 08:18:51 EST References: <980@minn-ua.UUCP> <475@abnjh.UUCP>, <560@ihuxk.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 11 [] Another similar letter I got recently seemed to be depending on the average consumer's inability to take cube roots, as one of the four prizes offered was a "frost-free refrigerator with a capacity of 721 cubic inches". This sounds too good to be true until you try taking the cube root of 721 to get a rough estimate of the size of this "refrigerator". -- Russ Rew {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70}!hao!rew