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The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

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Gene Spafford
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 1
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Eugene H. Spafford
Eugene Howard Spafford
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