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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A rather know-it-ally (‘know it ollie’ ? :) customer of my IT business told me that he had “power circled” the dsl modem several times and it didnt work.
To this day, my adepts and I inscribe power circles around failed equipment, to entice it to work.
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