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from Stephen Howard contains these words:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:46:31 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:
"Stephen Howard" wrote in message
.. .

[snip]

You might have to spend a week doing this, but it will decimate the
population to such an extent that a weekly patrol will probably be
adequate.

There is only one extent to which a population can be decimated,
namely to kill off one in every ten.
That leaves 90% fighting fit.
{:-((

There's always one...

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/decimate.html

Well, you seem to be it.

Franz is quite (in the proper meaning of the word) correct. Indeed, I
should say that his reply was nice...

I suppose you give *EVERYTHING* you read on the WWW total credence?

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