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   Jim Wilkins to Jim Wilkins   
   Re: What Percent of Retirees - are as ig   
   04 Jan 26 13:40:24   
   
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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Person Familiar With the Matter"  wrote in message   
   news:10je7bh$264s6$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 1/4/2026 8:11 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
      
   > 39. "The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse   
   > than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same   
   > turd."   
   >   
      
   That's laugh out loud funny.   
      
   ----------------------   
   Sci-fi author (with Larry Niven) and aerospace engineer Jerry Pournelle   
   whose blog I followed and occasionally corresponded with was a strong   
   contrast, a very sociable fellow with a large circle of writer and scientist   
   friends and admirers.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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