Ah, the happy Luddite…
Doug
> On Dec 30, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> cheers all bit rushed this :-)
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> PURE HELL
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>
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> misery and pain
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> a nasty outbreak
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> of user unfriendly
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> mind soul happiness
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> destroying machines
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> being attacked by a
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> new digital computer
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> new digital camera
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> new digital mobile
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> and
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> all the horror
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> those entail
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> conspiring together
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> to drive him mad
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> complete with
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> instruction manuals
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> incomprehensible
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> indecipherable
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> unintelligible
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> thousands of pages
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> in mini print
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>
>
> he simpering
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> he shattered
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> retreated safely
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> back into
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> the welcoming
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> loving arms of
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> his trusty landline
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> and good old
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> brownie box camera
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> and slowly
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> and softly sang
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> ‘you are my sunshine'
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>
>
> pmcmanus
>
> r895
Douglas Barbour
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