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dennis@home wrote:


"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Sure. in homeopathic doses..:-)


That's a really good way of putting it. Isn't homoeopathy that thing
where really minute amounts, not enough to make any real difference,
make the credulous feel better?


Not quite true.. its magic water, they are so diluted that there are
*no* active molecules left.


exactly so there are so few green electrons whizzing round the grid that
any improvement must be magic.

But you pay a huge price and feel like you are doing the right thing,
which is all that counts with sheep.

(aside: The last ever magnox fuel rods are being loaded into Wylfa for
the last ever refuel of the last ever magnox station in the world.
Sniffle sob!)