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-Do you remember, as a seven year old, writing a letter to your grandma and addressing it like this:
+{{a|plainenglish|}}“[[At any time]]”, and its fussier elaboration, “[[at any time and from time to time]]” is the [[legal eagle]]’s equivalent of the seven year old’s yen for infinite particularity manifested when writing a letter to his<ref>Yes, this was one seven-year-old in particular.</ref> grandma and addressing it like this:
+{{quote|{{grandma's address}}}}
-Grandma Contrarian <br>
-Argumentative Road <br>
-Whingeing  <br>
-Essex EX4 5FU <br>
-United Kingdom <br>
-The World  <br>
-The Solar System <br>
-The Western Arm <br>
-The Milky Way <br>
-The Universe <br>
-<u>'''THE MULTIVERSE'''</u><ref>Ok I am making this up clearly the (preposterous) cosmological hypothetical on which this relies was not widely known in the 1970s and certainly wouldn't have been known to a seven year old, </ref>
-Well, [[at any time]] is the [[mediocre lawyer]]’s equivalent.
-{{plainenglish}}
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