[rescue] obtainium or unobtainium

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 Innfomail at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 8/5/02 9:25:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dave at cca.org
>writes:
>
>
>> >"fringe" people acknowledge and talk about it.  In the Burning Man
>> >community (www.burningman.com), folks refer to useful stuff obtained
>> >for free as "unobtainium".
>>
>> That's a horrible misuse of the term "unobtanium". Are you
>> sure they use it that way?
>>
>
>I am on the National and local Burning Man lists and I believe they use the
>term "obtainium" for found objects. At least they do locally. They drop the
>"un". It was quite a shock to me to see the cross use.

*doh* mis-remembered, mis-typed, something like that, anyway...maybe
it's too many Diet Cokes.

>Burning Man participants are very creative scroungers.

Yes they are.  Some of the stuff I've seen...it's amazing.

=Nadine=