Re: Musk is having a bad week

danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> writes:

In <eli$2408092036@qaz.wtf> Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
 
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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.

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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada