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Joe Fogey - 29 Aug 2004 22:11 GMT

I work for a voluntary sector mental health project. One of the large
voluntary organisations, formerly the National Schizophrenia Fellowship,
recently changed its name to "Rethink", a name I feel to be a little
pretentious.

I was startled to see a woman in the street wearing a T-shirt with the
slogan "RETHINK RUBBISH" printed on it. I thought for a moment that she
might be a disgruntled client of the local branch but when I asked her
ablout it she said she was a member of a local junk band. (Junk bands play
percussion instruments made out of recycled materials.)

Fogey
joe@joefogey.fsnet.co.uk

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David - 30 Aug 2004 00:15 GMT

> I work for a voluntary sector mental health project. One of the large
> voluntary organisations, formerly the National Schizophrenia
> Fellowship, recently changed its name to "Rethink", a name I feel to
> be a little pretentious.

> I was startled to see a woman in the street wearing a T-shirt with
> the slogan "RETHINK RUBBISH" printed on it. I thought for a moment
> that she might be a disgruntled client of the local branch but when I
> asked her ablout it she said she was a member of a local junk band.
> (Junk bands play percussion instruments made out of recycled
> materials.)

Well, there you are. The late, grate[1], John Lennon did an L.P.
entitlified "Mind Games" and I don't suppose he was advertising
Scrabble championships in aid of the National Association of Mental
Health.

[1] Sound quality on said L.P. something to be desired.

David (one of me is schizophrenic; the other is autistic)

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