In message , badriya 
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>Sometimes thoughts do still flash by but mostly now they are slow.
>When Ihear a news item and I think about it by the time I've had a
>thought or two I've missed the next item.  Do anyotherolderrats find
>that OAIA?
>
YAdefinitelyNA. Mind you, it isn't just a recent phenomenon for me, _if_ 
someone connected with a news item makes a grammatical solecism (or, 
occasionally, just a wrong [or sometimes even unusual] pronunciation): I 
find myself thinking of an explanation of how and why what they said was 
wrong, and by the time I've thought of it I've certainly missed a 
sentence or two, if not as you say got onto the next item.
-- 
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simplest ideas often best. Thus why _Desert Island Discs_ (pick favourite music)
has been going 55 years, _Any Questions?_(discuss topical issue) 49, and _Letter
from America_ (short talk about golf) 51. [Roland White, Radio Times 10-16 May
1997 (edited).]