[Vision2020] Did you know?

[Carl Westberg]

And the first footballs, prior to around 1870, were really inflated pig 
bladders.  Hence the term "pigskin".  How the pig bladders were inflated, I 
don't know.  I don't want to know.                                           
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
       Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: "Bruce and Jean Livingston" <jeanlivingston at turbonet.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Did you know?
>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:06:37 -0700
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>Catgut tennis strings at one time were from entrails, as I understand it. 
>Not that I analyzed the stuff, so I am relying on hearsay from several 
>sources. Typically, players use synthetic gut, now.
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>Bruce Livingston
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "keely emerinemix" <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 1:18 PM
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Did you know?
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>>And, of course, all horses are cold-climate horses, as there is no -- 
>>repeat, no -- global warming crisis.
>>Every horse a potential bow donor, I always say . . .
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>>On another note, are catgut tennis racquet strings made from . . . you 
>>know . . . feline entrails?  I'm beginning to think my old tennis coach 
>>might have been pulling my leg.  Anyone???
>>
>>keely
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>>From: "Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com>
>>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Subject: [Vision2020] Did you know?
>>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:30:19 -0700
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>>I was just listening to NPR (an act which by itself confirms that I'm a 
>>liberal socialist, but I yam what I yam), and I just learned 2 cool facts 
>>about violin bows.  Did you know that the finest violin bows are made from 
>>perambuco, a wood found only in the mountains of northeast Brazil?  And 
>>that truly discerning violinists only play with bows that use hair from 
>>the tails of cold-climate horses?  Is that neat to know or what? Carl 
>>Westberg Jr.
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