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<font size=3>At 05:45 AM 6/13/03 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>CURLY KATE--Someone on the tour
mentioned this, a kitchen product. A quick web search shows a
sponge by this name. Any good "Curly Kate" mentions in
the usual sources?</blockquote><br>
I don't know if this counts as 'the usual sources', but "Curly
Kate" was the name used in Toronto in the sixties for a
scrubbing pad made of curled-up copper strands (a non-soapy competitor to
SOS pads). It may well have been a brand name, but alas I don't
remember. The things are still available, incidentally, but not
under that name, at least in Detroit.<br>
Apologies if I have violated the netiquette of this group--I've only just
joined it.<br><br>
Geoff Nathan</font><br>
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