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WT Sharpe · 10-25-2011, 08:41 AM

.....A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
..........— John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist and short-story writer. "Confessions of a Wild Bore" from Assorted Prose of Updike (pub. by Knopf; April 12, 1965).

10-25-2011, 08:41 AM	#1792
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ..........— John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist and short-story writer. "Confessions of a Wild Bore" from *Assorted Prose of Updike* (pub. by Knopf; April 12, 1965).