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   Message 670 of 1,925   
   JF to Nicholas Young   
   Re: Chronicles of Narnia   
   01 May 06 07:17:35   
   
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   From: jf@NOSPAMmarage.demon.co.uk   
      
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   In message <1146436963.637043.132880@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   Nicholas Young  writes   
      
   >> >(If by any chance your whole post was tongue-in-cheek - which is to be   
   >> >hoped - perhaps you could make it clearer with a smiley or two.  It   
   >> >comes across as quite straight.)   
   >>   
   >> Crap writers use such childish devices.   
   >   
   >How do you define crap writers?   
      
   Writers so incapable of expressing themselves using words that they have   
   to draw silly pictures using punctuation symbols.   
      
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   James Follett   
      
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