Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:30:21 +0100, real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

[Alan Turing:]

but from being forced to take overdoses of sex hormomnes

ISTR recall that they didn't *quite* force him - he had the choice of
the drugs or prison...


And didn't they only decide to do something about him and his
'problem' *after* he had finished helping them? ;-(

All the best ..

T i m


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