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#120712 - 01/18/08 07:52 PM Re: Things we take for granted [Re: ]
wildman800 Offline
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Murphy's Law #3(Paraphrased): With any expensive & complex machine, it will be the 25 cent part that fails and brings everything to a screeching halt!!!

With society being as complicated as it is, it really doesn't/wouldn't take much to start that 72 hour clock to commenced the countdown to the stone age (for the 4th or 5th time around).
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#120721 - 01/18/08 09:05 PM Re: Things we take for granted [Re: ]
benjammin Offline
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That was at the top of my list as well.
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