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Technical Difficulties
I have been unable to post for several days, as a result of a computer crash. At this time, I can only offer the story of the disaster.
A friend of mine who believes he is a genius wanted to show me some new software he wrote. Some months ago, my friend took an interest in the Watergate scandal. He became especially interested in identifying the mysterious "Deep Throat" source upon whom Bob Woodward relied so heavily. My friend poured over countless books, magazine articles and internet resources to assemble Watergate facts into a single database. He then wrote a program which would statistically identify who "Deep Throat" was.
Anxious to demonstrate his new program, my friend came over and installed it on my computer. He started the program running, and after several minutes it showed a result. The program's conclusion was that Richard Nixon was Deep Throat. The program went on to delete 18-1/2 minutes of audio from my system, and then blamed the deletions on a Microsoft secretary. The program then displayed a pop-up message that said, "Shredding, Please Wait". I became rather nervous at this point, and asked my friend to stop the program. He did a control-alt-delete on the keyboard, after which the computer displayed a quote of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, and froze.
I was rather upset, and pointed out to my friend that Mark Felt, former #2 man at the FBI had recently come forward as "Deep Throat". I may have also commented on my friend's intelligence. My friend became angry and refused to fix my computer.
Another friend has helped me to re-load my computer, and get it back on the Internet. I expect to post a more uplifting story in the near future.
Thank you all for your patience.
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