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   Robert Bannister to Your Name   
   Re: cases where SF has predicted scienti   
   17 Jan 14 09:19:50   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 16/01/2014 1:56 pm, Your Name wrote:   
      
   > It is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past ... until you   
   > realise you don't have some annoying kid kicking the back of your seat   
   > all the way, a teenager with his iPod turned up full volume, a drunken   
   > smelly guy sitting opposite you who looks like he'll be sick at any   
   > minute, a gossipy old woman sitting next to you who won't shut up, the   
   > inability to properly open a window in the middle of summer, ...   
      
   Some people just don't like people. At my age, I wouldn't travel on the   
   train at night, but it would be fine by day if only it went somewhere I   
   want to go.   
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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