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Letter: Letters : . . .

Published 23 November 1996

From Phil Garner

via Internet

It reminds me of the joke: “What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk.” It
has to be said that calling them “non-flies” or “flightless houseflies” is
particularly uninspired.

Issue no. 2057 published 23 November 1996

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