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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A couple of weeks ago:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>>Anne
Willis
wrote:
I <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>></span><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>George
Dawson wrote: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Is this the shortest contribution ever to
Bell Historians??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>>Bickerton,
Roderic wrote: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The
question is 47 times the length of the original contribution, Is this a record?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To
be fair to Anne Willis, I assume that neither George nor Rod noticed that there
was a perfectly reasonable (but not record breaking I think) comment of about
200 characters towards the end of her message – the “I” was
clearly extraneous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Today:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>>Anne
Willis
wrote:
(I detected no text at all in the first of her two messages.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So
for George’s benefit, I reckon that today’s message from Anne must
be shorter than before. For Rod’s benefit, and before he gets his
calculator out, this contribution is now well past infinity times the length of
the original, which must stand as a new record...until someone goes further!
Hmmm...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chris
Frye.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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