Re: [at-l] laces and knots

In a message dated 11/19/2000 11:13:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lwbooher@halifax.com writes:


> As disillusioning as this sounds, it's the square
> knot, the most over-hyped, under-strength knot in creation.  Clifford
> Ashley, the author of the definitive encyclopedia on the subject of
> knotting, states that the square knot'...has probably been responsible for
> more deaths and injuries than all other knots combined.'
> 


We're talking shoelaces here - I don't think GMC is planning on hanging from 
a ledge by the square knot on her running shoes.

POG
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If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance. 

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