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their entertainment value and become tiresome. Christmas, where the novelty tends to wear off around about the third morning egg nog, is a prime example of the sort of thing I’m talking about. A particularly troublesome bowel movement is another. A third, sad to say, is surely the recently finalised CME takeover of CBoT, about which I am about to say my absolutely, definitely, definitively final words. Until something amusing happens. You might be surprised to...