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Re: Reality Checkpoint

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From: Ben Newsam
Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 00:00
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clive@stdc.demon.co.uk "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:

> In article <800887349snz@microser.demon.co.uk>,
> Ben Newsam  <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > BUT: Reality Checkpoint is NOT in the centre of Parker's Piece, it's a small,
> > insignificant lamp post (fairly) near the edge of the vast Universe of grass.
> 
> Huh ?
> 
> The one in the middle is labelled Reality Checkpoint, and everyone I
> know thinks it is.

I used to live on Parker's Piece in the 70s, and it wasn't in the middle then
(it may have moved? since then). Mind you, Cambridge types think *they* are
the centre of the Universe, so there's no telling what they might believe.

Just go there and measure for yourself! Nowhere near the middle!

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From: Ben Newsam <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Reality Checkpoint
Date: 1995/05/29
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