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‘CRYPTO-CURRENCY adds a kind of unwelcome mysticism to the already baffling material and philosophical aspects of money. Some regard the blockchain with almost religious awe, as if it were a mythical ”Greek Gods’ high upon mount Laptopus’ – P, J, O’Rourke 

IN 1987 THE six largest US corporations by Market capitalisation were: 

General Motors, Exxon, Ford, IBM, Mobil, General Electric. All were producing products, most them involved in the motor industry. By comparison the six largest US corporations by market capitalisation 2018 were: Apple, Google, Microsoft,  Amazon, Facebook, Berkshire Hathaway. None were producing goods and one was simply moving money around. 

YOUR CAT, like many carnivores, gets no joy at all from sugar. In cats the genes responsible for making the sweet taste receptors are riddled with mutations and no longer function. 

AN OPTOMIST is a fellow who believes that a house fly is looking for a way to get out. 

IF YOU HAVE something or know of anything which may be of local interest please let us know, we can follow it up. Phone: 3089 978 or email: beckett36@gmail.com  TWO COMPLAINTS were made to the police, one about a naked swimmer in the Clutha river near Albert Town, the other related to a naked cyclist on the Cromwell to Tarras road. “We want to get to the bottom of this” acting sub-are supervisor Detective Sergeant Derek Shaw said. Otago Daily Times 

‘BY WORKING faithfully for eight hours a day you may get to be the boss and work twelve hours a day’ Robert Frost

‘GIVING MONEY and power to government is like giving whisky and car keys to. Teenager’. – P.J. O’Rourke 

THE  EUROPEAN satellite, using advanced geometry, has pinned down the distance from earth of 100,000 Stars. Some as far as 100 light years away.  

‘JUST AS there are no atheists on a sinking ship there are no free marketers in a pandemic’ Jonathon Freedland

‘PEOPLE ASK ME how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there’ Dolly Parton

THE FIRST Solar Flare to be recorded was on recorded on 1st September 1859. It was also the strongest ever record knocking out electric and telegraph systems and electrocuting some telegraph operators. 

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