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"Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub."

It's good to know the fire station is not too far away.
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At least they haven't changed their name. Something I do remember, I had a holiday in New York City about 15 years ago, and as the tour bus went past Verizon's HQ, the courier commented about, what's the phone company called this week...LOL. I think that when it was first called Verizon, previously it had probably been "Bell something or other", and went through multiple names and branding in a relatively short time. Because that's what many telcos did in the 1990s,
 
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I am crying. Over two brothers with still undiscovered talents and an open future. Galip (5) and his little brother Aylan Kurdi (3) were sitting in a small boat with their parents when, during the thirteen kilometer boat fare to freedom and a (better) life, the boat capsized. The boat, too full with eighteen of them in it, would fare them from the war in Syria to the Greek island Kos. The boat was so full, that no reasonable person would have stepped in it. But despair is not reasonable. They obviously did not have life jackets for their little bodies. Little bodies in a red shirt and dark pants, dark hair, both. They were almost there. Almost. They looked up to their parents hopefully. They might have prayed for help.
I don't care about politics. Nor did they. They weren't even old enough to read the newspaper to know about politics. And why should I care by what name their God is called? Mine does not really have a name. My belief is a less of a particular church, and more of humanity, hope and love for each other. But their God and mine, must be related. And what does it matter to me what the exact reason was that they got into the boat, where they came from and where they wanted to go. There, at sea, in that overcrowded boat, they sure weren't supposed to be there. Nor were they supposed to be found on their bellies, face down, in the waves beating on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey. Drowned. Dead. Together. Next to each other. Goddamn.
Defeated little lives. Lost hope, lost future. Maybe they were coming to 'my' Netherlands, if everything went well that day. Maybe, in twenty years, they would be studying medicine, to cure you and me. If they would become a county clerk, they could wed your children. Or they might become mechanics, who would repare your car quickly. Or we would all sit on the edge of the sofa watching TV, when he would win Olympic gold for their country. Our country. Yours and mine. Or they might teach your children in school. How to count. And they would teach them about humanity. About love for each other.
(Don't start about politics now please)
 
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mikedt said:
At least they haven't changed their name. Something I do remember, I had a holiday in New York City about 15 years ago, and as the tour bus went past Verizon's HQ, the courier commented about, what's the phone company called this week...LOL. I think that when it was first called Verizon, previously it had probably been "Bell something or other", and went through multiple names and branding in a relatively short time. Because that's what many telcos did in the 1990s,
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Hummmm....

If my memory is correct...the Telcom companies in NYC in the '90's were as follows...

NYEX>>>Bell Atlantic>>>Verizon

NYEX stood for New York Exchange, which was bought out by Bell Atlantic, then Bell Atlantic was bought out by Verizon.
 
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