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    COGITO ERGO SUM*
    One of the many joys of the 'Golden Years' is a chronic recurring backache, which sometimes even wakes me at night. Fortunately, however, my doctor has given me some medication which relieves the pain quite effectively.
    The other night, woken with the familkiar symptoms, I struggled out of bed and groped on the dressing table for the small pill, which I keep there in readiness, I swallowed it with a glass of water and crept back into bed, heaping blessings on the advances in medical procedure.
    When I woke in the morning, completely pain free, I was surprised to see the pill where I had left it the night before. What was missing, however, was a small shirt button which had come off when I was undressing.
    Once again, I blessed the miracles of medical science, referring this time, in particular, to the concept of psychosomatic cures!

    *COGITO ERGO SUM "I think, therefore I am" Descartes
    The collecting of facts is not the gaining of wisdom, or even knowledge; knowing that the earth is round does not prevent our falling off the edge of it.

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    Don't go wearing that shirt without the button though
    ... you will probably get back pain.

    Allan
    Life is short ... smile while you still have teeth.

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    All along, I've been storing surplus buttons and small nuts'n'bolts in salvaged pill bottles, preferably far from the bedroom. I don't want to contemplate the possibilities.

    Cheers,
    Joe
    Of course truth is stranger than fiction.
    Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain

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