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The usefulness of a wet sponge holiday detector

1 July 2009

FEEDBACK is delighted to discover a product that we never knew we needed: the “holiday detector”. You may well ask, as we initially did, why anyone would need such a device. The symptoms of a holiday were, we naively thought, fairly readily observed: the computer is turned off, the shovels are in the shed, the eternal flame on the lab bench has gone out – and there may well be unaccustomed sand and/or scenery nearby.

Unless you are an engineer, pipeline or power grid worker, that is. If you are, you will know how valuable a holiday detector can be.

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