[jyl]

Ow, that is really a shame, a big shame.

In college, my best friend worked in the school's machine shop. One night we went to the deserted machine shop and carved something from billet aluminium. It was, let's say, something not unlike a water pipe. So I had the coolest one around. When I went to Europe, my cousin held it for me. A year later, I returned and she'd thrown it out. Well, I'd stopped having any need for it anyway.