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Over two million pets in the UK have an idENTICHIP RF tag in the scruff of their neck that works as a kind of electronic ID tag. So what are the chances that two new devices based on the same technology -- which has had a good track record up until now -- would fail in three different dogs (including Barney, shown here with his pal Georgia, who coincidentally lives next door to one of the other dogs). And then to have those same devices weirdly and spontaneously rectify themselves after "xray"' investigations?
The odds must be, well, big enough to be almost impossible.
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In a twist of real irony, here's the latest fortune my husband pulled out of a cookie. Rather than a full size stirp of paper with an actual fortune printed on it, the cookie contained what appears to be the trim that would normally be thrown away as scrap. Granted, he's kind of a luckless guy, but after getting this fortune containing a lecture on the evils of poor quality. one can only wonder just how well the cookie factory is following its own advice these days.
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