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[moxie at kfib.org]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Tim Ressel wrote:

> True story: a famous mime, whose name I cannot spell,
> would coat the stage with Coke to make it sticky and
> give him traction. No other product had the right
> tack; it had to be Coke.

Yup. At big ballroom dancing competitions (yes, there are such things in 
the world) they prepare the dance floor beforehand by wet-mopping it with 
a 1:10 mixture of Coke in water. 
/Moxie (Reads strange things in his newspapers)