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Subject: Re: OT don't get joke.RE: [OM] ....personalising your OM...
From: John Hudson <jahudson@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:32:20 -0700
At 11:21 AM 15-09-99 -0500,  Dirk and Carla Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>At 6:21 PM -0700 9/14/99, Acer Victoria wrote:
>
>>:> Dear John....
>>:> Errrrrrr....... sorry , but what's Corinthian leather ?
>>:> TMLee
>>
>>Err, will someone try to explain this to moi? Offlist, if you feel
>>everyone else gets it....
>>
>
>There is a real island called Corinth, but I don't know the actual
>association of the island with a particular leather tanning process. Mr.
>Altavista didn't know anything about it. It may have been just another
>marketing gimick of Chrysler, who knows? There are other leathers, like
>Connolly leather, used in Rolls Royce cars.

Rolls Royce cars keeps [or at least kept until the not too distant past]
its own herd of cows to produce the leather upholstery.

I once flew on a Braniff Airways 727 and it had solid leather seating ......! 

jh

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