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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Seriously, it was the Internet of its age. There were pneumatic tube delivery systems in many major businesses. Up until a few years ago, Shreve Crump & Lowe's Boston store still had tubes from the registers to the stockroom, and when you ordered something, the saleswoman would fill out a slip and send it off.
Think Brazil with all the tubes over the place....
(Today, it was some sort of support thing that goes around your waist to relieve some of the strain of holding the baby? )
I've only seen this in a sort of (white person) flesh tone, but it doens normally go under everything else, I think.
My dream home has pneumatic tubes.
Think Brazil with all the tubes over the place....
I loved that part of Brazil. I would have loved to work in an office with pneumatic tube delivery of interoffice mail....
Our local hospital has pneumatic tubes even in the newer sections.
My dream home has pneumatic tubes.
I want cake and pie delivered from the fridge to the couch in my living room via pneumatic tubes.
Buffista diversity: some of us want a cabana boy; others, pneumatic tubes.
That article was awesome -- and really, so right in so many ways. I'm sad we don't eat GIGANTIC PRODUCE, though.
New York City began using pneumatic tubes in 1897.... By 1898 the system connected twenty-one local post offices in Manhattan to the main post office. As late as 1914, 30 percent of first-class letters sent through the city's main post office were transmitted by pneumatic tube.
I want cake and pie delivered from the fridge to the couch in my living room via pneumatic tubes.
No way, man -- DIRECTLY TO MY MOUTH!
Though the force with which the baked goods travel might knock some teeth out, but you gotta make sacrifices....