Well, Ken,
projecting slob-like behaviour onto Robin is no problem, I do it all the time. However I believe
the real explanation is that, as I suspected all along, he removed the modem before travelling
to Salisbury and then completely forgot he had done it to prevent his offspring from using the
Internet while he was away. Of course he put it somewhere so safe that he cannot remember where
it is. Typical!!
There is of course a trail of bemused and slightly amused waiters, waitresses, hoteliers and
cathedral guides left behind us. Also a guy on the station platform got into a discussion as to
whether the train we were waiting for really existed and that led to discussions on
existentialism and various related beliefs (this on Salisbury railway station as we left for
home). There are now a lot of people whose lives we have enriched as they can now discuss
whether we were real or not, rather than the latest TV soap.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Revenge?
> Roger Collett wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is to explain the disappearance of Robin Hamilton from the list. Temporarily I hope.
>> On returning to Loughborough from a few days in Salisbury with myself, Joanna Boulter and
>> Judy Prince, it would appear that Robin's ADSL modem has disappeared from under his desk so
>> he cannot connect to the net.
>>
>> Suspicion is inevitably going to fall on Vile Boris, who has probably stolen the modem in
>> revenge for an earlier theft of pmcm's bus pass (see list archives).
>
> That's right, blighter, blame the damn cat. Odds are Robin buried the thing under a pile of
> papers or tripped over the wires so it won't function. I am of course projecting my own
> slob-side behavior onto Robin, which is patently unfair, but since no one will patent it, I
> must do so on my own.
>
> Steal a modem? Absurd.
>
>> Anyway, he will return when a new modem is installed or the mystery is sorted out.
>
> Actually I can believe Boris might have eaten the modem, but since cats do not have opposable
> thumbs, the only way the can express their opposition is to break or eat the object of their
> displeasure.
>
> I am more intrigued that the UK is surviving Boulter, Prince, Hamilton, and Collett (sounds
> like a solicitors' firm), rambling about the countryside and getting into trouble. Wondrous,
> wondrous.
>
> ken
>
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