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Luddite ASBO's stuck in the past

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From: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
Date: 20071208
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Asbodog should have lived in the days of Elizabeth Gaskell, whose rather dreary Cranford is being wondrously serialised on telly. He is definitely a pre-industrial revolution dog and would have been more than at home in the Cheshire village where the populace viewed the arrival of the industrial age with fear and loathing.

I have said before how, like nature, Billy abhors a vacuum. His hatred for the Hoover (yes, the machine really bears that hallowed name) knows no bounds. The growling has escalated into full-scale, all-out war.

The weekend cleaning chores are impossible if Bill is within 50 ...

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