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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Steve Walker
saying something like:

I have a clearout of the garage every few years and it is absolutely
guaranteed that a week later I will be doing something and think "I just
need a ... I've got one somewhere ... Oh **** I threw it out 'cos I
haven't needed it for the past fifteen years!" It happens every time

Silly boy; never throw anything that's even vaguely tool-shaped away.

It happens with papers too, take my word for it.

Nick
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