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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: John WrightJohn Wright Date: Jul 29, 2008 11:33
Steve Firth wrote:
> John Wright pegasus.f2s.com> wrote:
> >>> On Jul 28, 4:00 pm, %%ste...@ malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: >>>> Half of the Peking's cars have been banned. So how in the name of holy
>>>> crap do you think those people are now moving around? Duhng's preferred
>>> Beijing has a metro and overground rail services you pillock. And in
>>> case you've forgotten they all used to use bicycles up until pretty
>>> recently.
>> Even Katie Melua knows that.
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> She could bear correction:
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> "We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable
> universe,
> that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars,
> Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined,
> and with the available information, I predict that I will always be
> with you " -- Simon Singh
>
Wasn't that the corrected version of the lyrics he suggested? Probably
more accurate but doesn't scan as well as the original...
--
John Wright
"What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool?
You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and
socialising and not getting anything done!" - Professor Temple Grandin
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