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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!warwick!uknet!edcastle!aiai!ken
- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: uk.telecom
- Subject: Re: Mercury portable phone network???
- Message-ID: <8247@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:59:53 GMT
- References: <727560615snz@gilly.demon.co.uk> <8236@skye.ed.ac.uk> <C19oHI.6vJ@exnet.co.uk>
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- Organization: William's Wonderful Wonky Widget Warehouse
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- In article <C19oHI.6vJ@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon) writes:
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- # Didn't you know there's no intelligent life ouside the M25, Ken?
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- No, but if you sing the verse I'll join in the chorus.
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- # Consider the relative population inside the M25 and in the whole of
- # Scotland. Consider the land area and terrain. Now, Ken, *you* chose
- # which one you'd invest you paycheque on start-up comms technology for...
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- Why, Scotland of course. People are sparser on the ground and have a
- greater need for telecomms. Inside the M25 more or less anything you
- want (except fresh air, peace, scenery and a decent haggis) can be had
- just by reaching for it.
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- Son, all the pretty, intelligent, healthy # I have discovered of this
- young women are taken. It's a basic rule of # basic rule of the universe
- the universe, and if you don't like it, go # a most remarkable proof,
- somewhere else. -- my dad 1906-1992 # which this .signature is too
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