To: CYPHERPUNKS@toad.com S.> Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> writes: S.>Then there's the time in the early '80s when the Consumer Products S.>Safety S.>Commission banned the "Button Book." S.> S.>Query: S.> What pray is the "Button Book". S.> Readers may recall that many years ago, their parents gave them this book that had, attached to its pages, all sorts of fastening devices. The Button Book had cardboard pages with shoelaces, zippers, buttons, buckles and all sorts of great stuff. Good training for fastening things. The CPSC felt that the buttons were too easy to remove. The old "oh no your book is dangerous it may kill my (stupid) kid." The publisher didn't try a 1st Amendment defense. I don't know if they've ever reissued. DCF Who survived to adulthood before the CPSC (as difficult as that may be to believe). --- WinQwk 2.0b#1165