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Default Changing a lamp safely

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:26:46 -0000, geoff wrote:

In message , Tim
Streater writes
In article op.wnqg26nsytk5n5@i7-940, "Lieutenant Scott"
wrote:

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:35:47 -0000, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article op.wnqgt6qsytk5n5@i7-940, "Lieutenant Scott"

wrote:

We need to ban the word "issue". People are overusing it. It's now a
generic term that could mean almost anything. When I were a lad, ...

Were you a midshipman back then? Or a powder monkey?
It wasn't that long ago we didn't have health and safety madness.
I'm 37.


Hmmm, 37, that doesn't get us back to Nelson. So no lash, press gang,
or weevils in the biscuit then.

He was talking about his IQ, not his age


That would be 135.

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