Re: Whacko Russian Declines Field Medal


Pete Dashwood wrote:

Yet, the chances of it happeneing are exactly the same whether I believe in
God or not.

Or, indeed, whichever of the many 'gods', goddesses, fairies or santas,
one imagines.

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