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To those of us who are too young to remember them, it kinda feels like the 70s didn’t actually happen, like they were something that Rick Wakeman invented while he was in the pub nursing a pint of John Smith’s and absent-mindedly writing rude words in the Sun’s two-speed crossword.  But, apparently, top scientists have proved that they did in fact happen, probably by carbon dating Damo Suzuki or something, and, after the verdict in ELP v mapsadaisical (2005 SLT 499 per Lord Clarke: “I am bound…to find that the absence of the particulars in question from the very detailed Note, 6/9 of process, rendered it ineffective as preventing the adjudicator’s decision becoming final and binding in terms of Clause 66”.  Ouch, that stung) I’m not allowed to question that fact in print any more. Read the rest of this entry »