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Find yourself a scratching post. It helps if you're big enough to impersonate a bear while using it. After a while the people at work will get used to seeing you "scratching" against corners, door frames, cubicles, etc and quit commenting on it. Where I work the condition is common enough (our office has an example of almost every spinal problem known to modern medicine) that the best spots are getting popular. All it takes to start a trend is one guy cantankerous enough not to care if he looks weird trying to get a deep massage on his back.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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