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Greg Goss  
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 More options May 17, 4:56 pm
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
From: Greg Goss <go...@gossg.org>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 14:56:06 -0600
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 4:56 pm
Subject: Re: Thermosats

"ZBicyclist" <ZBicycl...@excite.com> wrote:
>Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> ZBicyclist wrote:

>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>> Here's some tech I didn't know about.

>>>> Big rig reefers temp-monitored by satellite.

>>>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/thermosat.jpg

>>> Is that a refrigerated truck? That would make a lot of sense.

>> That was my assumption and the underlying reason for my use of
>> "reefers".

>I'd never heard "reefers" used in THAT context before. That's
>today's new word for me.

Back in the seventies, everyone in Rez had calendars from "Clark
Reefer Lines" a trucking company.  Strange that college kids had a
thing for pictures of trucks, eh?
http://www.clarkfreightways.com/web/OurHistory.aspx
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27

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