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absw"at"absw.org.uk
These pages were designed, well, cobbled
together, by Michael Kenward on behalf of the ABSW.
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Every publication has to have a back page for fun stuff. Why not the
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This is a random selection culled from recent issues of
The Science Reporter, the ABSW's newsletter, the
EUSJA-L mailing list and general gossip.
All ideas welcome. Payment at our usual rates.
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You
might like to know of a poster in the corridor of Guy's Hospital. It says:
"Be careful. Thieves are operating in this area". Someone has
added: "So are surgeons." Fabian
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Plenty of time
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Nina Hall was kind enough to post this on the
internet "PLN, Indonesia's national electricity board, was recently asked by an Indonesian newspaper about its Y2K preparedness. The reply is as follows:
"We can observe what happens at midnight in Western Samoa, New Zealand and Australia and still have six hours to make plans."
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