tigerente

See `soroban' for more!

And see http://fenris.net/~lizyoung/abacus.html for a history and 
`manual' of the chinese abacus!

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  //\\ (o\  \o) \\//___(/)   //\\ (o\  \o) \\//___(/)
 (o\  \o) \\//___(/)   //\\ (o\  \o) \\//___(/)   //\\
\o) \\//___(/)   //\\ (o\  \o) \\//_...

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After seeing Austin Powers the other night I relised that I'd made
a mistake calling this pic 'Seventies catsuit woman'! She is
of course from the Sixties (she's based on the Austin Powers poster,
and...

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