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MC: I am surprised that a lady of your literary quality would even envisage such a possibility. You may well have read over the weekend of the detection by the Alpha magnetic spectrometer (AMS) of dark matter, more specifically the particle neutralino which barely ever interacts with ordinary matter. I have friends like that. Analysis has shown part of the dark matter to be fragments of Kookaburra (the cricket ball, not the kingfisher). The Big Bang may well have been created by the ball hitting the Great Creator's coal bunker in his back garden with such force as to cause an enormous explosion. GC, as we humans know him, had a pretty lethal forward drive when practicing.

'''Do teenagers today have as much fun as we did?'''

Mind you most of the young girls I see on the streets must catch pneumonia fairly frequently. Initially all we could ever hope for was a glimpse of stocking, although at least the miniskirt then opened up the main highway. This is also a generation which relies on technology - mobiles, apps, blackberries, notepads, satnavs. If the Chinese hackers ever do launch a war and everything goes black, then we oldies at least will be able to find our way home. In addition some of the innocence has gone and of course no one has to wait for anything. Just use your credit card. Part of the problem, of course, and why there is a debt problem and not just with teenagers.

* '''BB: And if you wait, you might find that you don't want it - and how much fun would that be?'''