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David Quinton

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Jun 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/26/00
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Revelling in a night on my own, with loads of videotapes that I was
never allowed to watch, I wallowed in the dubious delights of Julian
Clary and Lily Savage.

Whatever happened to Bob Downe?

Did he have to return to Oz because of work permit stuff?

Or does no-one like him any more?
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St Mym

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Jun 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/26/00
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:43:22 BST, being the year 2753 AUC, David Quinton
<in...@bizorg.co.uk> wrote:

>Revelling in a night on my own, with loads of videotapes that I was
>never allowed to watch, I wallowed in the dubious delights of Julian
>Clary and Lily Savage.
>
>Whatever happened to Bob Downe?
>
>Did he have to return to Oz because of work permit stuff?
>
>Or does no-one like him any more?

tush - this is what the web is FOR you know...

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ambermb/index.htm

and

http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/4098/index.html

and his Girlfriend - Pastel Vespa

http://www.netspace.net.au/~lyla/

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David Quinton

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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:52:11 BST, St Mym <ne...@druidic.isles.net>
wrote:

>tush - this is what the web is FOR you know...

I know, I know....

>
>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ambermb/index.htm

WOW! At last someone's found an appropriate use for all those MSIE
proprietory tags - just perfect with cheese....

Yup - back in Oz...

Gregoire Kretz

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Jul 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/3/00
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David Quinton <in...@bizorg.co.uk> wrote:

> WOW! At last someone's found an appropriate use for all those MSIE
> proprietory tags - just perfect with cheese....

All right people, gather round - this is going to be the official moment
when I last do this:


<clears throat, ruffles hair, undoes two top shirt buttons>


<swoooshes in>

Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!
Keep your filthy hands out of that tender and delicate crust! I don't
even want your tainted nostrils to consider welcoming the exquisite
perfume raising from the golden flesh cut into by the cold steel of the
knife! How dare you even carress the salacious bread - it is mine for
the fondling, hear me? Mine! MINE! *MINE*!
Now go back to the cesspools of Dutch processed cheese whence you
unfortunately emerged from and never return unless crawling on your
hands and knees.

I banish thee, I negate thee from the furthest vicinity of the sacred
which is so righteously mine! I spurn you like I would a can of
cheese-wiz which was without the flimsiest shadow of a doubt the major
ingredient to your creation.

Now go! Go! GO! *GO* and be no more!

<drapes himself in cape. Curtain falls as fat, blond women in armour
start singing and victim whithers away>


<audience turns delirious>


<...>


I said: "delirious".


<looks right and left>


Hurumph. Bastards.


Greg

--

Yes it's true, look, it's happened to me and you.


Matthew Malthouse

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Jul 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/4/00
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In article <1ed7tg6.o2...@rouen-15-48.abo.wanadoo.fr>,
gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:

} Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!

I thought you'd vowed not to do this any more? ;-)

Matthew

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It is shaped, sir, like itself; and is as broad as it hath breadth. It
is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that
which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
http://www.calmeilles.fsnet.co.uk/pride2000/index.html


Laurence Jupp

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Jul 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/4/00
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:40:33 BST, Gregoire Kretz wrote:
> David Quinton <in...@bizorg.co.uk> wrote:

>> WOW! At last someone's found an appropriate use for all those MSIE
>> proprietory tags - just perfect with cheese....

> All right people, gather round - this is going to be the official moment
> when I last do this:

It was that piece of cheese that attacked you at the picnic that has
led you to give up...

--
Laurence


Gavin Wheeler

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Jul 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/4/00
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[...]
>
> <swoooshes in>

>
> Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!
[... yada yada ...]

> Now go! Go! GO! *GO* and be no more!
>
> <drapes himself in cape. Curtain falls as fat, blond women in armour
> start singing and victim whithers away>
>
>
> <audience turns delirious>
>
>
>
>
> <...>
>
>
> I said: "delirious".
>
>
> <looks right and left>
>
>
> Hurumph. Bastards.

<looks up from cheeseboard>
mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?

[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]

--
Gavin Wheeler


Rupert Thompson

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Jul 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/4/00
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Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in
<gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-67-100.btinternet.com>:


>mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?
>
>[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]

*real* cheese queens don't *touch* crackers, but insist on bread. And
Sauternes.

--
R.J.E. Thompson Queens' College, Cambridge
http://rjet1.quns.cam.ac.uk (when my computer's on)


Gavin Wheeler

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Jul 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/5/00
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In article <8jtq6l$9hh$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert
Thompson) wrote:

> Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in
> <gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-67-100.btinternet.com>:
>
>
> >mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?
> >
> >[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]
>
> *real* cheese queens don't *touch* crackers, but insist on bread. And
> Sauternes.

Real bread, in England? I've had some corking bread in Welsh restaurants,
even in top-range or organic english ones, but too many still produce
factory-made 'baguettes' with feeble crusts.

Anyway, you go insist on bread and wine, dear, I'll get back to the
remains of the cheese! Mmmph.... mmmmm...

--
Gavin Wheeler


Rupert Thompson

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Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in
<gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-120-142.btinternet.com>:

>In article <8jtq6l$9hh$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert
>Thompson) wrote:
>
>> Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in
>> <gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-67-100.btinternet.com>:
>>
>>
>> >mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?
>> >
>> >[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]
>>
>> *real* cheese queens don't *touch* crackers, but insist on bread. And
>> Sauternes.
>
>Real bread, in England?

One makes ones own, dear :)

Gregoire Kretz

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Matthew Malthouse <use...@calmeilles.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1ed7tg6.o2...@rouen-15-48.abo.wanadoo.fr>,
> gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:
>
> } Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!
>

> I thought you'd vowed not to do this any more? ;-)

Precisely, which is why I said it was the last time I did it.

Cheese and I have been in a fun relationship but both it and I don't
want it to end like a big, public joke which would do nothing but get
lamer and lamer with time.
We both decided we would no longer be so flamboyant together and will
keep our love affair to our private appartments. We are still very
committed to each other and hope to remain so for years to come.
There.

Greg

--

Au bar de l'Étoile Rouge, reste plus que moi...


Gregoire Kretz

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Jul 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/5/00
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Gavin Wheeler <gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com> wrote:

> In article <1ed7tg6.o2...@rouen-15-48.abo.wanadoo.fr>,
> gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:

> [...]
> >
> > <swoooshes in>


> >
> > Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!

> [... yada yada ...]

Oh go ahead and mock, I don't care.
You do queen and camp much better than me, and I've decided to stop in
any case. :o)

> <looks up from cheeseboard>


> mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?

Well-mannered people don't speak with their mouth full, dear boy.


> [Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]

Crack...? What are they? Or do you mean those little bits of brownish
polystyrene?

Gregoire Kretz

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Jul 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/5/00
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Laurence Jupp <al...@bits.bris.ac.uk> wrote:

Oh yes, I never expected some cheese to turn against me...

Gavin Wheeler

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Jul 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/5/00
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In article <8jut2l$sji$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert
Thompson) wrote:

> Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in

> <gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-120-142.btinternet.com>:
[...]


> >Real bread, in England?
>
> One makes ones own, dear :)

Well, at home one can (or just find a talented baker), but in a restaurant
or someone else's home?

--
Gavin Wheeler


Rupert Thompson

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Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in
<gavin.wheelerSP-...@host213-1-173-207.btinternet.com>:

Can one get *either* decent cheese *or* decent Sauternes in your common-or-
garden restaurant? I (vauguely) remember a very confused evening at which
some of the uk.g-l-b'ers were present, asking a waiter if there was any
dessert wine, and being told "We have chardonnay." -- "But chardonnay isn't
a dessert wine." -- "Some of our punters drink it with dessert."

(I'm sure Martin remembers).

At the Old Fire Engine House in Ely, of course, one can get all three. Plus
they historically say to me "Are you ginger?" while bringing the stem
ginger and whipped cream dessert.

Neil Matthews

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 23:50:34 BST, rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert Thompson)
wrote:


>At the Old Fire Engine House in Ely, of course, one can get all three.

And seconds. And not necessarily of what you had for firsts.
It's very civilised, and they do have quite a good wine list.

>Plus they historically say to me "Are you ginger?" while bringing the stem
>ginger and whipped cream dessert.

And I'm sure you have a suitably witty retort for them. ;-)
--
Neil Matthews in Cambridge
ne...@chaos.org.uk
http://www.chaos.org.uk/~neilm


Matthew Malthouse

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00
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In article <8k0e3i$f4f$2...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert Thompson) wrote:

} Can one get *either* decent cheese *or* decent Sauternes in your
common-or-
} garden restaurant? I (vauguely) remember a very confused evening at which

} some of the uk.g-l-b'ers were present, asking a waiter if there was any
} dessert wine, and being told "We have chardonnay." -- "But chardonnay
isn't
} a dessert wine." -- "Some of our punters drink it with dessert."

RJET (Very Drunk): Do you have a desert wine?

Waiter: No sir. Howver some of our customers drink chardonnay
with desert.

RJET (with Intense disdain): Just because your customers drink
chardonnay with desert doesn't make it a desert wine.


I've heard it reainled often enough for it to be engraved upon my
conciousnss.

Martin

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Jul 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/6/00
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use...@calmeilles.demon.co.uk (Matthew Malthouse) wrote:

> RJET (Very Drunk): Do you have a desert wine?
>
> Waiter: No sir. Howver some of our customers drink chardonnay
> with desert.
>
> RJET (with Intense disdain): Just because your customers drink
> chardonnay with desert doesn't make it a desert wine.
>
> I've heard it reainled often enough for it to be engraved upon my
> conciousnss.

Almost: replace the last with:

RJET (Very drunk and somewhat pompous): Just because some of your
customers drink Chardonnay with *pudding* doesn't make it a
dessert wine, *my good man*.

'twas a good night. That bit was nearly as fun as the boys' end
of the table discussing at reasonable volume the merits of
various brands of lube as the surrounding punters edged away...

--
Martin ICQ 48819192
Dream like you'll live forever; live like you'll die tomorrow


Rupert Thompson

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Haec scripsit mar...@speedsix.demon.co.uk (Martin) in <LMs0Omt287po-pn2-
Qc9GjYHwBEre@localhost>:

>use...@calmeilles.demon.co.uk (Matthew Malthouse) wrote:
>
>> RJET (Very Drunk): Do you have a desert wine?
>>
>> Waiter: No sir. Howver some of our customers drink chardonnay
>> with desert.
>>
>> RJET (with Intense disdain): Just because your customers drink
>> chardonnay with desert doesn't make it a desert wine.
>>
>> I've heard it reainled often enough for it to be engraved upon my
>> conciousnss.
>
>Almost: replace the last with:
>
>RJET (Very drunk and somewhat pompous): Just because some of your
>customers drink Chardonnay with *pudding* doesn't make it a
>dessert wine, *my good man*.

*Pompous*?! *Moi*?! :)

>'twas a good night. That bit was nearly as fun as the boys' end
>of the table discussing at reasonable volume the merits of
>various brands of lube as the surrounding punters edged away...

And Mr Charlton picking up that random bloke from another table...

pete-d

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rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert Thompson) appears to suggest in
<8k0e3i$f4f$2...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>:

>Can one get *either* decent cheese *or* decent Sauternes in your
>common-or- garden restaurant? I (vauguely) remember a very confused
>evening at which some of the uk.g-l-b'ers were present, asking a
>waiter if there was any dessert wine, and being told "We have
>chardonnay." -- "But chardonnay isn't a dessert wine." -- "Some of
>our punters drink it with dessert."

That is priceless!

>At the Old Fire Engine House in Ely, of course, one can get all

>three. Plus they historically say to me "Are you ginger?" while


>bringing the stem ginger and whipped cream dessert.

Ooh - not been to Ely since 1991 (or was it '92 or perhaps even 89?).
I keep saying I must go again sometime!

Pete
--
Pete Denton

Currently listening to Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem - I'd forgotten
how good it is.


Martin

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Jul 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/7/00
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rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert Thompson) wrote:

>
> And Mr Charlton picking up that random bloke from another table...

While I had carefully hung back to next-to-last with Mr C in the
hope of chatting him up on the walk from restaurant to club, the
random character who'd been making puppy-eyes at him all night
over my shoulder moved in for the kill while he was getting his
coat. :(

St Mym

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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:40:33 BST, being the year 2753 AUC,
gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:

><clears throat, ruffles hair, undoes two top shirt buttons>
>
>

><swoooshes in>
>
>Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!

I have just returned from Siena with two very large Pecorino cheeses - one
nice hard semi-stagionato and one really smelly, runny, fresco....

John Rayment

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St Mym wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:40:33 BST, being the year 2753 AUC,
> gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:
>
> ><clears throat, ruffles hair, undoes two top shirt buttons>
> >
> >
> ><swoooshes in>
> >
> >Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!
>
> I have just returned from Siena with two very large Pecorino cheeses - one
> nice hard semi-stagionato and one really smelly, runny, fresco....

Sudden vision of man sneaking through customs with a half-dry plastered wall
under his coat.

BaldJohn


Dennis

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Jul 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/15/00
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On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:46:22 BST, gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com
(Gavin Wheeler) wrote:

>
>[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]
>

As long as they're oatcakes, yes.

D. (works 'round the corner from Neal's Yard Dairy)
--
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"..behind the hatred there lies a murderous desire for love..."


Gregoire Kretz

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Jul 17, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/17/00
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St Mym <ne...@druidic.isles.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:40:33 BST, being the year 2753 AUC,
> gregoir...@wanadoo.fr (Gregoire Kretz) wrote:
>
> ><clears throat, ruffles hair, undoes two top shirt buttons>
> >
> >
> ><swoooshes in>
> >
> >Who said that? Cheese! Where is it?! Give it to me, and I mean *NOW*!
>
> I have just returned from Siena with two very large Pecorino cheeses - one
> nice hard semi-stagionato and one really smelly, runny, fresco....

Don't do this to me, please, Mark... It's tough enough already!
:o)


Greg

--
Rowe's Rule: The odds are five to six that the light at the end of
the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
- Paul Dickson


Lyn David Thomas

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:21:42 BST, gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com
(Gavin Wheeler) wrote:

>In article <8jtq6l$9hh$1...@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, rj...@cam.ac.uk (Rupert


>Thompson) wrote:
>
>> Haec scripsit gavin.w...@Mbtinternet.com (Gavin Wheeler) in

>> <gavin.wheelerSP-...@host62-7-67-100.btinternet.com>:


>>
>>
>> >mmph.. thowwy, did you thay thomething?
>> >

>> >[Real cheese queens don't pontificate, they grab the crackers]
>>

>> *real* cheese queens don't *touch* crackers, but insist on bread. And
>> Sauternes.
>
>Real bread, in England?

There is some....
I recommend Lucas in Moseley - Woodbridge Road. Excellent.

> I've had some corking bread in Welsh restaurants,

Which reminds me I'll have to get into doing bread again, though with
an electric cooker *spit* it could prove expensive.

>even in top-range or organic english ones, but too many still produce
>factory-made 'baguettes' with feeble crusts.

CAMRB? Campaign for real bread?

>Anyway, you go insist on bread and wine, dear, I'll get back to the
>remains of the cheese! Mmmph.... mmmmm...
>

Don't tempt me, cheese is my biggest downfall.
--
__
*Lyn David Thomas* \/
Web pages start at
http://www.cibwr.freeserve.co.uk


Pete Baggett

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Jul 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/20/00
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Remember the well stocked fridge in our Claro Villa days?
--
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My Web Page:-
www.g4orx.btinternet.co.uk
(Trolleybus page www.g4orx.btinternet.co.uk/trolleybus.htm)


Lyn David Thomas

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Jul 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/21/00
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:00:56 BST, Pete Baggett <g4...@btinternet.com>
wrote:

Yes :-) and the wicked landbastard's food parcels

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