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LOL.
Perhaps you both ought to stop now. The statements are becoming increasingly preposterous.

From Horace Odes, a Roman poet, Punishment is personified as one of the Furies.
I’m more interested in Alan’s ‘calculations’ regarding two years hence. I have no idea where he gets that from. It sounds as if he is some sort of soothsayer. Either that or an assassin who is busy for the next 24 months.
Either way, I’m not planning to fret about it.