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Plastic bags and history's landfill...

Posted May 8, 2002 5:12 PM.

What happens when the Plastic Bag is finally consigned to history's landfill. Will the world's antipathy have been rained down on it so hard that the name itself will live through history in infamy? In which case - excellent - no problems there - I can keep the domain name cheerfully! But what if it becomes a name lost in history? What if in two years time no one has even heard of them. People forget so quickly. I know - after all the barbelith was a perfectly cromulent word for 'happy fun place' merely three weeks ago... But today, no one has the slightest idea what it means...

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