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From: Tob Wood <tob@cwis.unomaha.edu>
Subject: IMPORTANT! (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 09:19:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tob Wood <tob@cwis.unomaha.edu>
To: New Subscribers <cdibble@acsu.buffalo.edu>, gt6877c@prism.gatech.edu
Subject: IMPORTANT! (fwd)


This is a recent blithering sent out to the locals.  I think I might include
these "thinking attacks" in my regular stuff.

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1993 15:12:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Tob Wood <tob@cwis.unomaha.edu>
To: Various Random Information -- Devoid Meaning <dmanning@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     hollie kathryn sackett <holliek@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     "Jonathan G. Warman" <jono@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     Kansas City Chung <echung@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     "Dave Rosser Jr." <monolith@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     "Dr. Monzay" <monzay@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     Kevin Ortman <ortman@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     Tom Ferony <party@cwis.unomaha.edu>, Verbman <tatood1@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     Scott Miller <sirat@cwis.unomaha.edu>,
     Suzi >From The Bar <grimm@cwis.unomaha.edu>
Subject: IMPORTANT!


    Actually, this isn't important at all.

    Traditionally, sumi-e brushes were made out of cat whiskers.  I was
thinking, "Hmm, that would be a lot of whiskers for, say, a number 010
size brush.  Probably 18 to 20 cats worth".
    So what I want to know is, did the craftsmen who made these brushes
for the sumi-e artists raise cats also?   Assuming a cat's whiskers grow
back in three months, you get four "harvests" a year per cat.  If you
had 40 cats, you could manufacture eight number 010 brushes a year.  Not 
an inviting prospect.   The way I figure it, to turn a profit you would
have to have about (give or take a dozen) 2260 cats considering a number
010 size brush probably cost about the equivalent of $.80 (adjusted for
inflation).    
     I don't think traditional sumi-e brush making is a field I want
to go into.

                                                                   
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