[rescue] obtainium or unobtainium

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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.

Burning Man participants are very creative scroungers.

Paxton