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Letter: Letter

Published 7 August 2004

From David Cumming

I can only conclude that Feedback is “directionally challenged”. The meaning of the inscription on the face of Peter Groves’s son’s watch is perfectly clear; if you stand 100 metres from the watch and splash water at it, normal timekeeping will continue.

Cumbernauld, Glasgow, Scotland

Issue no. 2459 published 7 August 2004

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