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Re: My Least Favorite Game

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From: Xocyll
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 23:27
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Mr Rob <noemail...@jsjsaiiowppw.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:01:16 +0000, Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I was once working on my PC with the side off, the PC was on. I think
>>I was investigating fan noise. At the same time I was eating cherry
>>tomatoes and one exploded as I bit it. Somehow I was covered in tomato
>>juice but the PC survived.
>
>Haha!
>
>
>I don't think anybody can beat Mrs Rob for crazy things connected to
>electricity (not in a PC)
>
>Two that immediately spring to mind are:
>
>Plugging an extension lead into the wall - not to use it, but to 'cut
>it to length' for where she wanted it to reach. She tried to cut it
>with a serrated carving knife - whilst the lead was plugged in - and
>switched on at the wall. The bang was huge and her hair was actually
>smoldering and standing on end like a scene from a cartoon. She's very
>lucky to have escaped with just a single small but very deep and nasty
>burn in the crook of her elbow and a badly scorched scalp. The knife
>blade had a lump melted out of it and looked like it had been in a
>fire.
>
>
>Many years ago when we were first married, we bought an electric
>strimmer. Mrs Rob 'wired it up' but somehow managed to have two male
>pins exposed - which I picked up ready to plug into the female
>connector - and promptly got literally blasted off my feet. I was
>wearing rubber gardening wellingtons at the time which I'm told
>probably saved my life. My ears were ringing with tinnitus for weeks
>after that and I still have a long jagged scar on my right index
>finger where it literally split open like a banana skin.
>
>I don't trust Mrs Rob around electricity anymore.

I have to ask;   Did you have the taste for games of deplorable quality
_before_ she electrocuted you, or did that come after?

You're lucky the pair of you are still alive.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, 
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr 
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