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Old 10-23-2006, 03:01 PM   #26
Gordon Bennett
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Squinky, vey cute. Much appreciated. I've often said that I could happily spend the rest of my life without ever revisiting Monty Python again, but you've proved me wrong.

I'm not certain that I can believe that prediction for the future. It reads too much like 1940's pulp sci-fi for me to take it seriously. There's no proper way to predict the future, all you can do is distort the present by taking it to an extreme. Predictions rarely seem to be at all accurate. If they were, we'd all be communicating by a global radio network by now, having huge personal movie screens in our homes, listening to music on miniature records read by laser beams, eating food cooked in atomic ovens, wearing clothes made of man-made cloth, and riding around the world in jet planes.
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