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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: Musk is having a bad week
Date: 10 Aug 2024 01:52:23 -0300
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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:

> In <eli$2408092036@qaz.wtf> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
>> Thoreau bought a house (but not the underlying property), borrowed some
>> tools, disassembled the house and then used the materials to build his
>> cabin on Waldin Pond. He was reusing *nails* even. Musk has no fucking
>> clue how to be that resourceful.
> 
> Nails were _high value_ back then, so reusing them was quite common.

I've heard it said that some "forty-niners" in rural New England
burned their houses to retrieve the nails before leaving for
California and the promised gold.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada