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On Wednesday, February 13, 2013 12:56:17 PM UTC, Tim+ wrote:
Mark Bluemel wrote:

On Feb 11, 5:25 pm, "Geoff Pearson" wrote:


How can this be of any interest? A bloke who is 86 announces he is too


tired, nae wunder, to carry on work. He was too old when he started the


job. Shock? Very old bloke retires? Not much shock to me.




I'm currently assuming that he knows that a(nother) crisis is about to


break and he wants some other lucky person to have to deal with it.




Oo you cynic you. ;-). You could well be right though.


Maybe he wants to move on a do some thing like,
I'm a celibate get me out of here.







Tim