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Re: Spring spacers

To: John Macartney <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Spring spacers
From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:44:33 -0800
John Macartney wrote:
> 
> He also suggested the original prototype heavy duty Herald had been tested
> in the French Revolution to take prisoners across Parisian cobblestones to the
> guillotine - hence Marie Antoinette.

Tradition has it that the, ah, bosom of Marie Antoinette was used as the
model for the shallow champagne glass, which of course makes it the
first...

(...oh no, he can't REALLY be about to say it...)

...drop-head coupe.

--Scott

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