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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Join the NASA design challenge: win 15,000 dollars
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:04:41 +1000
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On 25/09/2024 12:46 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:54:41 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
>> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>> divert an
>>> asteroid before it makes us extinct, it will have paid off, big-time.
>>>
>>> The dinosaurs didn't bother
>>
>> At school we heard what happened to the Bronco-sore-arse*, they were all
>> wiped out by asteroids.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [*In the UK years ago, 'Bronco' was a brand of hard toilet paper.]
> 
> Saddle sores. Makes sense.

It doesn't. BRONCO was the trade mark of the British Patent Perforated 
Paper Company Ltd., London, E9 England. Nothing to do with horses.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney