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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Curtain call
OK, I lied said 'probably' for a reason. One more poem, which I was still considering before the handover: Pseudoglyphs, by Francis Silva.
Decidedly OT, but I thought that you, Ken, and visitors to this site, might be interested to see this:
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Live long and prosper, comrades!
Grif
OOps - after a little research, it turns out to be a spoof:
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Ah, well...
Grif
Grif - yes, OT, but fascinating in its own right as an example of how easy it is to get away with this sort of thing, at least for a while.
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