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Olives - things that make you go, "hmmmm"
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Tue, 24 Mar 1998 20:50:51 -0500
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The modern version must be the infamous "O"-ring that caused the Shuttle
spaceship disaster.

Suzanne Quigley


>An Olive is:
>a metal ring that creates a seal.
>A metal ring or fitting which is tightened under threaded nut to form a
>seal as in a compression joint
>[Oxford English Reference Dictionary]

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