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<HTML>They feck you up, the chronoguard,
They may not mean to but they do,
They give you histories they had,
And shaft the future, just for you.
And they were fecked up in their turn,
By operatives from Spec-Ops One,
Who half the time are vicious brutes,
And half the time are, er... more or less the same, now you come to mention it.
Man hands on misery to man,
It deepens like Goliath's wealth.
Get out as early as you can,
And find a good book for yourself.</HTML>
<HTML>neither did mine, really.... and the joke doesn't work if you day 'dad'....anyway still hankering after Thursday. Her brother's gay, why can't she be, too?</HTML>
<HTML>Er, probe through millions of postings for an explanation. Basically I come form a zoider making part of the country, where everyone sings songs about farmyard machinery and drinks fermented apple juice before marrying their close relations....</HTML>
<HTML>of course, if you drink too much fermented apple juice (especially the kind with bits in), you end up marrying the farmyard machinery and singing songs about hedgehogs (semi-obscure Terry Pratchett reference, for the uninitiated)</HTML>