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Gentlemen wear hats. Not many in East Dulwich.

I thought it was the Lambeth Beds.

> There were two bridges just a few metres apart, one of these was a branch line that continued to behind the Hospital to bring soldiers here direct. Are you sure about this, shorty? I've never seen this on a map, nor seen any remains of a branch line on the ground, nor seen a second bridge except the one that leads from the JAGs main site to the playing fields. One of the few published references to North Dulwich Station with old photos and OS maps is in Vic Mitchell's "Mitcham Junction Lines" published in 1992.

Ouch, Sean, that was complicated. It reminded me of C.J.Date discussing the impact of null values on truth tables. Essentially I think you were getting down to what constitutes a proof. Not an easy question (don't ask me). It is worth pointing out that both science and logic are based on mathematics, and that the whole of mathematics rests on the fragility of a few asserted axioms that cannot be proved.

A pay-and-display machine that gives change?

It's an interesting emotion to be happy when someone has lost ?100. Is there a clinical name for this?

I have a copy of Pakman [sic] that I still run from time to time. Many years ago I copied it from a mid-1980s IBM PC (an advanced model with a colour monitor and a 10MB HD). The game is one COM file that is just short of 64K. This game must have some of the tightest machine code ever written. Each time I run it I am filled with admiration of the programmer's skills.

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Who is going to give more flac?

One of these might help.

Shorty, It's the location of water tanks, street shelters, and designated basements I hope you're working on. I didn't think you'd forgotten. MacRoban

Thanks shorty, I was only making the point that despite family connections with The River and the PLA I have never once heard this slang being used in real life. MacRoban

Interesting syntax for a 79-year-old.

Interesting (for me) that I've read about it, heard spoken snippets on Radio 4, but never once heard a real person speak thus. And we had Thames stevedores in the family.

> I'm not sure the terms of the initial question were set out effectively. I think this is actually a specific class of question. (Someone help me out here with the technical term.) If I ask "Is there a Nam Aromram?" it's a question of the same class. If the "thing" in the question is unknown, or cannot be known, then there is no valid answer to the question.

> It's better to give than receive Or share an IP address?

Apologies. I was writing from memory. That should read "Xenu".

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Why, thank you, Mr mockney piers. Pascal's Wager is a little more subtle than you suggest when it comes to the non-Abrahamic gods.

> You are a Scientologist I don't think the fictional Zenu is regarded as a "god".

Pascal's Wager is the only one on offer at the bookies. Take it or leave it. Jermey, You asserted a couple of axioms in you last post: (1) God is omniprescient, (2) God is interested in the lives and outcomes of us worms.

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I'm with Pascal.

Thank you for the narrative, Shorty. You may need to expand "A.F.S.". I think the instructions for building an Anderson Shelter said to construct a trench in front of the shelter door and build an earth "blast wall" in front of that strengthened by the one straight sheet of corrugated iron included in the kit. I could be wrong on this. I'm interested in the water tanks you mentioned. Do you remember where the water tanks in East Dulwich were located? I'd also like to know if there were concrete and brick street shelters (not the semi-underground communal shelters), and which buildings were designated as public shelters for those caught out in an air-raid. MacRoban

A quick and painless murder by the younger generation would be far better than the morphine driver breaking down, or the dosage of diamorphine not being increased to match increase in pain.