OK, you win the Chenhall. It will be sent to you as soon as I can flag down
Rasta Dredlocke, the Caribbean Mail Pelican. Rasta only accepts packages
with Turks and Caicos Islands 1/4 cent stamps, so there may be quite a few
stamps on the package, provided I can find enough stamps. Expect the book
in a few years. Ah, Caribbean-Time Air Mail!


> > From: H. Taves <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: speaking of light bulbs
> > Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 11:53 PM
> >
> > It takes two curators to change a light bulb:  one to deaccession the
> > old bulb and one to install the new one in an acid-free socket.
>
> no, no...that would be conservators.  It would take three curators.  One
to
> change the bulb, one to distract the conservator so he/she wouldn't see
> that the socket wasn't archivally stable, and one to secret away the old
> bulb so the registrar couldn't see that an object was being removed
without
> all of the requisite deaccessioning paperwork.