In article , Bill Hayles 
 writes
>On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:56:10 +0100, Arthur Figgis
><afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote:
>
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>>You realise you will now have triggered a huge "I travelled to Timbuktu
>>by bus three years before I was born and it never did me any harm" thread?
>
>I believe I travelled considerable distances by bus (and train) in the
>nine months before I was born, and it never did me any hard.
>
>(You did ask!)
>
My mother told me that I went to the cinema frequently in the months 
before I was born.

(It was the winter of 1946/7, one of the worst winters of the century 
and fuel in desperately short supply.  Mum and Dad used to go to the 
cinema several times a week just to keep warm!)
-- 
Sue
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