Enjoy your retirement. It is well deserved. Your contributions are far too numerous to even begin to mention. 



Blair



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Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2018 10:07 AM

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Subject: [TN] NTC: Closing down!



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Over the many years, I've made many friends (and probably foes!) in the 

IPC, some by personal contact, some on this forum. I'm now 86 and, 

honestly, am past it; enormous strides have been made in our technology 

since I 'retired' 21 years ago, plus my brain is retiring faster than I 

would like. I've therefore decided to close this account with the IPC at 

the end of the month but not without a big thank you for many years of 

information and enjoyment, hoping I haven't been totally useless, either!



As a final tribute to the efforts of Doug and David, I'm announcing the 

discovery of a new half-element, brianium. On the periodic table it is 

half-way between barium and hafnium and its main characteristic is that 

its electrons orbit at half the usual speed relative to the temperature. 

It can be found native only on the surface of an outcrop of pillow lava 

around the sleepy village of Mosfiloti, Cyprus (incidentally where the 

cousins Clumpy and Kloumpios first met). This village is named after the 

mosfilo, the berry of a white hawthorn, which makes a very sticky jam 

and legend has it that the slow orbit rate of brianium may be due to the 

viscosity of the jam. It is also possible that Kloumpios' embonpoint is 

due to an over-consumption of mosfilo jam when he was a kid. The slow 

electron orbit of the element results in the density of the element 

being twice as great as may be expected, explaining why some of the 

inhabitants of the village are also dense.



Farewell,



Brian


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