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by Mike McNamee Published 01/10/2009
Computer repair shops have joined the ranks of cowboy plumbers and mechanics. We still have a specially inventive breed of scally round our way, though. Their best trick was to convince an old lady that her chimney stack needed pointing 'because it was a danger to passers by'. After they had finished (and the old dear had raided her piggy bank to pay the exorbitant 'builder's' fee) the son-in-law became suspicious and got on the roof to take a look at the pristine new brickwork. No wonder it looked good, they had papered the stack with a brick pattern vinyl!
If you need cheering up after all this gloom, read David Creedon's piece in the magazine, it will uplift even the most depressed spirit.
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