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    Red face Old buffer's observation

    They say that a 'watched pot never boils'. Well, I can tell you from personal experience that it takes even longer if you don't turn the rotten thing on

    Richard

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    Old Timer's disease eh?

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    In the old house, my favourite trick was to put a pot on the stove and turn on the wrong element, then walk away and wonder why it never boiled. We've got a gas stove in the new house
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles
    They say that a 'watched pot never boils'. Well, I can tell you from personal experience that it takes even longer if you don't turn the rotten thing on

    Richard
    Thats because you werent whaching it.

    Al

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