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   Greg Goss to David DeLaney   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   14 Jan 14 23:44:37   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   David DeLaney  wrote:   
      
      
   >>      I remember a story where someone is driving and has a big   
   >> accident.  It turns out that it was a simulation of some sort.  That   
   >> he still wants to apply his licence (instead of waiting, I think it   
   >> was, six months) means that he does not get it.   
   >   
   >It might be enlightening to check James Nicoll's blog for his intermittent but   
   >ongoing reactions to the Canada's Worst Driver tele-vision show.   
      
   They just had the all-time worst show this year.  A guy my wife dated   
   for a while in the early nineties was brought back.  He came   
   third-worst in the all-time-worst contest.   
   --   
   We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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