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Happy Xmas and a merry New Year.
I knew it ... black holes are full of ferrets.
All the best for the coming year, William. I look forward to more challenging and enlightening articles in 2014 and some of your more light-hearted digs at the world around us.
Merry Christmas, William :)
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2001 might have been even more cryptic if Bowman's last transmission had been, "My God - it's full of stoats!"
[I'll keep that in reserve. I've already used "My God, its full of sculls": https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151348200087350&set=a.1015081… -W]