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   RS Wood to Stephen Thomas Cole   
   Re: Darwin award...   
   10 Aug 15 19:13:57   
   
   From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2015-08-10, Stephen Thomas Cole  wrote:   
   > RS Wood  wrote:   
   >> Hils  Wrote in message:   
   >>> ...subcategory 'inappropriate use of technology'.   
   >>>   
   >>> "A Spanish man died Sunday after being gored in the neck while filming a   
   >>> bull run through the streets of a town in central Spain with his mobile   
   >>> phone."   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Hey, them's the breaks.  Sometimes you get the bull, sometimes the   
   >>  bull gets you.  Personally,  I root for the bill more often than   
   >>  not.   
   >>   
   >> Knowing modern society though,  if he managed to capture the   
   >>  footage of the bill as it approached,  it will be a huge hit on   
   >>  YouTube and almost certainly go vital immediately.   Hell, I'd   
   >>  watch it.   
   >   
   > It's difficult to feel much sympathy for this chap. Instant karma, as John   
   > Lennon might say.   
   >   
   Stupid Android autocorrect made a hash of my post.  Tempted to turn it   
   off permanently. I know how to spell my own words, thankyaverymuch   
   Android.   
      
   %s/bill/bull/g   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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