Re: Fully sick

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In message <442e0262$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Patricia Pasterham <gopuppygo1yourwig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Ok, to clarify: Wordsmith you are _most_ welcome. Just don't get put off
by some members of this group who may be rather rude and unkind to a newbie.
It nearly put _me_ off.

Fine words from a trilling tamponette who screeched outrage to the world about how she had killfiled me when I was unaware of her existence. It turned out that she had mistaken me for someone else but lacked the infinitesimal amount of moral fibre needed to apologise.

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James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk
The Silent Vulcan trilogy, starting with 'The Temple of the Winds', on BBC7
Sundays 1840.
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