Re: Do Eskimos count like New Guineans?

Pat Durkin wrote, in <8Fjrj.4454$uE.515@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:29:09 -0600:


"Nick Spalding" <spalding@xxxxxx> wrote in message

I've just looked at an unopened roll of garbage bags and a packet of
ziploc bags in my kitchen and they just have the length and width on
the
label, no mention of thickness. They are in fact 1 mil and 2.5 mil
respectively.

How can you tell, if thickness isn't mentioned. Do you have calipers
handy that are that precise?

Yes. Digital calipers good to .001 inch or .01 mm.

I can't say I find tony's experience to be mine. I just looked at the
"sandwich bags" in my kitchen. Unless the mil strength was mentioned
on the tear-away opening strip, it isn't mentioned. Actually, the "made
in" place isn't named, either, on these Wal-Mart bags. These have the
"press to close" strip, which I might find myself calling a zip-lock
strip.

I don't think ziploc (Zip Loc, Zip Lock) has become generic in the US,
but I don't talk or read about these items very often. *Ping* Fontana.

Oh, and I just resurrected some bin liners, dimensions 15X9X32. Made
for VFW (a fundraising item that I have had, unopened, for 10+ years.
It appears to have a date, 6/24/89 printed on the box) by Mobil
Chemical. $34/95 for 100. No mention of thickness.
--
Nick Spalding
BrE/IrE
.

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