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From: Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pushing on a piece of string
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:49:02 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 25, 12:32=A0am, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 24, 12:25=A0am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> > Actually the boundless optimism that seems part of being Sepponian is
> > also somewhat endearing. Unless of course what you mean by "if the
> > government had left things alone it all would have worked out", you
> > were implying that if a more extended base of underlying regulation
> > had been retained, things wouldn't be as dire.
>
> That's what I meant. It's sad that you've gotten to know me well
> enough to decipher my particular brand of gibberish.

A sad state of affairs indeed :-) and we've only met once. I'm still
curious as to how you can remember that chick fom Himeji station.