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Message no. 1
From: "Lucifer" <MFISHER@*****.vinu.edu>
Subject: Re: Question about Cybertorso Armor
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:14:48 -5
Robert Watkins wrote:

> >Just look at the pictures in the book, which show armored
cyberlimbs. They
> >look like they've just been removed from Robocop himself, so I
think the
> >main problem would be twofold: first, how do you conceal the
thing? and
> >second, how do you make your clothes fit over it? :)
>
> Good tailors?
>
Or it could be the same way you get clothes to fit trolls. Specially
made.
Lucifer
Prince of Darkness, Eater of Souls

"To the living one owes respect, to the Dead one owes
only Truth."-Voltaire
Message no. 2
From: Larry <lomion@********.net>
Subject: Re: Question about Cybertorso Armor
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:42:49 -0500
At 14:14 02/20/96 -5, Lucifer wrote:
>Robert Watkins wrote:
>
>> >Just look at the pictures in the book, which show armored
>cyberlimbs. They
>> >look like they've just been removed from Robocop himself, so I
>think the
>> >main problem would be twofold: first, how do you conceal the
>thing? and
>> >second, how do you make your clothes fit over it? :)
>>
>> Good tailors?
>>
>Or it could be the same way you get clothes to fit trolls. Specially
>made.

umm, isn't that what tailors do? :>
Larry
lomion@**.cybernex.net
http://www2.cybernex.net/~lomion
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of spectators then day of my execution and that
they greet me with cries of hate."
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Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: Question about Cybertorso Armor
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:11:53 +0100
Lucifer said on 20 Feb 96...

> > >the main problem would be twofold: first, how do you conceal the
> > > thing? and second, how do you make your clothes fit over it? :)
> >
> > Good tailors?
> >
> Or it could be the same way you get clothes to fit trolls. Specially
> made.

Not to nitpick, but isn't that the same in essence? :)

A third problem is that having a Robocop-style cyberlimb would be just
one notch below having one of those oversized limbs advertised in
CP2020's Chromebook 3 for your social relationships...

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Message no. 4
From: h_laws@**********.utas.edu.au
Subject: Re: Question about Cybertorso Armor
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:05:25 +1000
>>Just look at the pictures in the book, which show armored cyberlimbs. They
>>look like they've just been removed from Robocop himself, so I think the
>>main problem would be twofold: first, how do you conceal the thing? and
>>second, how do you make your clothes fit over it? :)
>
>Good tailors?

Elves in Troll's clothing.

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Hamish Laws
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