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Well, we think-- and I'm willing to accept other theories, by the way, so if anybody's got better ideas than this, then please do let me know.
But we think it's because, well, first of all it made this sort of ticking noise, and when it got to the end of its runs it make a clonking noise.
So it tick, tick, tick, clonk, sounds like a bomb, doesn't it?
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