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getting old in mke

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7. Simon Scarrow

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sun Mar 2, 2014, 11:09 PM

Mar 2014

So I've read another couple of his (44 AD, with Vespasian in Britain), having fun.

But I think the quote of the year, so far, a far as making me burst out laughing:

"Life, [he] decided, had a funny way of taking an impossible situation and making it effortlessly worse."

That one is Douglas Adams-worthy.

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