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Message no. 1
From: Matti Aistrich <aistrich@********.hkkk.fi>
Subject: Body armor (was: Shooting the Barrett)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:43:21 +0200 (EET)
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Gurth wrote:

> mostly in your hands. I own a U.S. Army M69 body armor (4.5 kilos of
> nylon) and it seems to weigh a ton when you pick it up, but it's actually
> not all that heavy once you put it on. Not that you don't feel a lot less
> weight on your shoulders once you take it off, though :)

Just out of personal curiosity, knowing you're not in the service: why
exactly do you wear it? Just for fun? Or are you a collector for some
loan shark?

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Message no. 2
From: neon@******.backbone.olemiss.edu (Mike Broadwater)
Subject: Re: Body armor (was: Shooting the Barrett)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:37:14 -0600
>On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Gurth wrote:
>
>> mostly in your hands. I own a U.S. Army M69 body armor (4.5 kilos of
>> nylon) and it seems to weigh a ton when you pick it up, but it's actually
>> not all that heavy once you put it on. Not that you don't feel a lot less
>> weight on your shoulders once you take it off, though :)
>
>Just out of personal curiosity, knowing you're not in the service: why
>exactly do you wear it? Just for fun? Or are you a collector for some
>loan shark?
>
>Matti M. Aistrich

No, Gurth just lives in a _really_ tough neighborhood :)

Mike Broadwater
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
"You only need two things in this world. WD40 to make things go, and
duct tape to make them stop."
Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Body armor (was: Shooting the Barrett)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 11:12:40 +0100
Matti Aistrich said on 12 Mar 96...

> Just out of personal curiosity, knowing you're not in the service: why
> exactly do you wear it? Just for fun? Or are you a collector for some
> loan shark?

I don't normally wear it, it's just lying around here in a chair (can't
hang it on a coathanger cause it'd fall down :) I kind of collect this
sort of stuff, when I run into something that interests me.

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