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Old 12 December 2001, 06:03 PM   #6 (permalink)
Hugh_A._Halliday
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"The needle in the haystack that is hardest to find is the one that is NOT THERE." There is a real possibility that no contemporary source of the story may be found, which in turns means either (a) it did not happen or (b) it happened but nobody recorded it - in which case it cannot be proved - a variation on the questions, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is present to hear it, does it make a sound ?"