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>>>The same happened to me after dusk on the road from Durness to Inverness
>>>in Scotland. The old Ford Cortina just stopped, no more electric. Looked
>>>around, opened fuse box, the big one was gone. "Oh s..t!" ... no other
>>>cars traveling that road at this late hour. I did meet one horse though,
>>>alone, just wandering about (you see those a lot there). I seriously
>>>doubt it would have agreed to carry me to Inverness. So I slowly walked
>>>back and lucked out, found the fuse in the dirt. It had simply fallen out.
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>>Lucas, Prince of Darkness?
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>Sno-o-o-o-ort! Damn! Chardonnay up the nose :-(
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> ...Jim Thompson
And you couldn't manage 4 drops down the esophagus. Damn.