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		Wishing you well Brian,
It’s been 31 years since we met last in Birmingham ‘nepcon 
		
All the best; as an observation on your email, if you call that “slowing down” what hope for the rest of us?
Will miss your pithy sense of humor.
Kind regards,
John
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On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 7:07 AM -0700, "Brian Ellis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:










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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