Age

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Nico de Jong wrote:
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>>Nico de Jong wrote:
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>>>Yes, as far as possible. Some didnt give their birthday or expressed it
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> in
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>>>fortnights or just presented a year. Some might therefore be 1 year off.
>>>Please forgive me :-)
>>>
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>>I think I expressed mine as "26 + VAT and Carriage" - which should of
>>course work out to 31 (decimal).
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> 
> No, you said :
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> --I'm 31, born in 1973, and I've been into electronics since I was about 6
> --or 7, and computers not long after.  First computer was a ZX81, then a
> --48k Spectrum, then a string of relatively unusual kit bought by my Dad's
> --boss for various datalogging projects and subsequently discarded.
> --AIM65, Epson HX-20, stuff like that.

Did I?  Oh.  Pre-senile dementia, then.  Comes from reading all the tiny 
writing on those DEC printset PDFs.  Or is that eyesight problems?

> You would want to live in Denmark then. Even of you only took the VAT into
> consideration, you would be 32½ !
> One could of course catch all attrractive women, and deport them to a
> VAT-less country. That would make them considerably younger :-)
>  Nico

See, one of my mates has done the opposite, exporting an attractive 
woman from Denmark.  Apart from the odd firmware bug, like lapsing into 
Danish occasionally, things are working out well.

Gordon.