_Travel_ as TRANS

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 7 01:37:02 UTC 2011


Your memory is good:

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<http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewpallmall41.jpeg>DanG

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> IIRC, from late-'40's(?) radio:
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> "Pall Mall! Finer cigarettes! And...! They are *mild*! Their greater
> length _*travels* the smoke_ farther, on the way to your throat!"
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> From today's internet:
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> "'Cloning' the drive will bring along the Restore partition, so it
> *may* be possible to _travel the clone_, with Restore partition, from
> Mac to Mac."
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> -Wilson
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> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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