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Curmudgeon writes
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Andrew
Gabriel) saying something like:

But I still like
using CPC, and I just can't resist the weekly offer leaflets;
I suspect they are quite a marketing success.


Especially when there's something that you would use anyway.
A few months ago they were clearing out unpopular tie-wrap sizes and
offering bags of 1000 for a quid. Now everything is tie-wrapped wherever
I've been. I've probably got enough to see me out.


I bought 3000 the year before last

they're almost gone now



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geoff