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Overloading the Machine
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It's Overloading the Machine as in, the washing machine, primarily. The name comes from the laundromat next door. They have very large signs on each machine which say, in all-caps, "DO NOT OVERLOAD THE MACHINE". All in all, there are at least twenty of these signs posted.
Both at the laundromat and at home, I regularly overload the machine, leading to unpredictable results.
A hundred years from now it is very likely that [of Twain's works] "The
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-- Harry Thurston Peck (Editor of "The Bookman"), January 1901.
This page was last modified on 2011 December 20.