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On 17/06/2018 14:16, Huge wrote:
On 2018-06-17, John Rumm wrote:
On 16/06/2018 19:09, Jim K wrote:
Johnny B Good Wrote in message:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:30:14 +0100, ARW wrote:

Just emailed the MD of a company a photo of me knobbing the gf instead
of a photo of the fault on the lights in his office that I just fixed.

Ah, the delights and dangers of modern digital photography, all neatly
illustrated in a single sentence. :-)


And unusually for you responded to in a single sentence! The
therapy must be working ;-)
or you're busting for a crap
:-)



I would like to jump to the defence of the more thoughtful response,


Hmmm.

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le
loisir de la faire plus courte."

-- Blaise Pascal.

(I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.)

Similar idea to one of the US 20th century presidents who had a
"formula" if he was asked to do a speech. I forget the numbers but in
essence, if it was a 10 minute speech he needed three months notice. For
a 1 hour speech, he needed a month. For a 3 hour speech, he could do it
next week.

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