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The story of a chaste but forbidden romance.
The Eye Affair.
New research uncovers the location of a vast horde of stolen saucepans.
The Well of Lost Pots
Rocky Balboa talks about Rocky XIII, Rocky XIV and Rocky XV
Fist Among Sequels
A new study of hermaphrodism in chickens.
The Bi Over Easy
Further study into varying degrees of same-sex attraction.
Shades of Gay
Archaeological research discovers information on the last man known to converse with dragons.
The Last Dragonsayer
Autopsy discovers that not only did Davy Crockett have a left ear, a right ear and a wild frontier, at age 4 he had a small deformed ear surgically removed from his neck.
The Fourth Ear
One man becomes enthralled in reading "A History of Paste and Glue."
Lost in a Goo Book.
* If that "the saur us" be a MistyCat original, then I prostrate myself in homage this time. To quote a friend of mine on a cricket forum "I am so stealing that." *
Founder of the "Loud Appreciation Society" encourages other members to take photographs of loudness. The best ones are published and the founder is always hoping for a previously unknown form of noisy noise.
Asimov's other story: The small set of caverns: The Cave of Steel, or perhaps the greetings to the cave: The Aves of Steel.
Shakespeare's drinking play: A Midsummer Night's Dram [Have we already had this one? If so, I apologise most humbly and exit screen left for magic memory pills.]
and a rare one: A B Austin's tale of a partial delivery: Birth of an Arm **
**Birth of an Army; A B Austin; Victor Gallanz; 1943, London.
The contempoary fiction story of the Tunisian Campaign by the 8th Army as far as I have read.
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Birth of an arm....brilliant Bun bun ; but what on earth are you doing with a gollancz book published in the forties? I'd give my unborn right arm to know.
I am trying to put together all my father's military stuff. He was Manpowered out of the Australian Army back to Veterinary School at Sydney univeersity and as such was not demobbed properly. And so I have all this stuff, including 'Top Secret' 8th Army documents and camouflage items that the National War memorial would like. All i have to do is finissh packing it and wwrite the story and they will collect it. Apparently some of it is unique.
there is HG Wells' story of future dieting: The Shape of Thins To Come
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Since it's my thread do I get to invoke the rules? In which case can I point out that Sons and Overs sounds far duller than Sons and Lovers and the rules clearly state that it has to make the book sound more interesting.
We were playing this game to pass the time when I was doing jury service, unfortuantely it got unbelievably unpleasant when one of the other jurours insisted that Portrait of a Lad sounded much more interesting than Portrait of a Lady and demanded that he got given a point.