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|    Re: What Percent of Retirees - are as ig    |
|    04 Jan 26 13:40:24    |
      XPost: rec.aviation.military, or.politics, fl.politics       XPost: alt.law-enforcement       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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