-> ->  DW> I'm not afraid of being dead. I was dead for billions  
-> ->  DW> of years before my birth, and nothing awful happened  
-> ->  DW> to me during that time.  
->    
-> -> Nice one ... I apologise in advance for stealing it....  
->     
->  DW> I stole it from my friend Ken Tucker (who sometimes contributes to 
->  DW> the  science-based Usenet newsgroups). I have no idea where he got 
->  DW> it from.     
 
-> i just did a quick google for the first line, the first sentence and the las 
-> part of the first line and didn't find anything that was exactly the same... 
-> several that were very similar, though... 
 
-> it's been added to my random quotes on my webpage with attribution to you ;) 
 
-> )\/(ark 
  
I suppose the exact wording may be original to me. I remember Ken 
saying essentially the same thing several years ago, but I don't recall 
the exact words he used. I just generated the words from the concept. 
  
                           dow 
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