Random thoughts about TN:

1. What would happen if Colonel Next (the legit one) was put on assignment to capture his former non-legit self?
2. What other Hades does Thursday defeat?
3. Does Thursday's attempt(s) to stop Friday from joining the ChronoGuard actually inspire him to?
4. IS THIS THE LAST TN BOOK (SR) NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
5. There should be a US JaperCon....I know it defeats the point if it's not in Swindon, but.....
6. I am a devoted Garrison Keillor fan and have read "Lake Wobegon Days" many times, yet am unable to find an "incident with the socks." Any theories? Perhaps its just in the back story.....Or perhaps I'm not reading as closely as I thought.
7. Anyone have any theories on Mycroft's "incident with the prawns"? (I know this technically should go in TEA....but whatever)

I seem to have a debilitating effect on posts (whenever I post at one, no one responds....and this is one of my few visits to the Fforum anyway... :) ) so, I decided to start a new "topic" which is in actuality just a few rantings.

I must also add that I visited the Reader Fiction section of the site and heartily enjoyed Jacques Merde's letter to SARF!!! :)

Best Wishes,
~Antonio Salieri~

Hello!
All good questions, and none of them really answerable as yet, which won't stop me trying:

1) Everyone's heads explode as they try to understand the strange time loop.
2) Apparently Phlegthon may be due the chop, but that's just a rumour. Aornis is still dangerously shopping for dresses, so that's still to come, unless...
3) You mean will they, or did they, or had they had done so in the future...?
4) Mr Fforde has intentions on further TN books, so we can but hope. Apparently TN pi is the one after next. (doing nursery crimes at current)
5) If not, there sodding well should be!
6) Someone may do
7) "Mad Inventor in Crustacean Incident Horror!!!!"

I feel I must sincerely apologise if any questions were answered in that burbling. It would just be coincidence.



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Turn the silliness to eleven!

Mycroft's incident with the prawns, eh? So you're not satisfied with the (boring but safe) possibility that he tried to eat a king prawn in a restaurant and pulled the shell apart a bit too vigorously?

Nope, never happened to me either.

My theory, for what it's worth, is that he accidentally came up with the recipe for prawn cocktail whilst absent mindedly working on an invention for ripening home grown tomatoes thus confusing a lot of 1970s diners (who spent ages trying to drink their cocktails) but creating a boom in dry cleaning.

random answers about TN

1. he wouldn't be able to use the excuse 'but i didn't recognise him sir!'

2. erm, what andy said......

its not much of a response, but i did my best!

heya! welcome.



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blame it on the e-numbers

HEY! Hey, hey, hey! Put a spoiler warning on that thar subject line podner! Some of us have not yet finished TN 4. Remember that it was released much later over here in America.

(Sorry if any of this sounded rude. I didn't mean it like that. I'm probably also the only one on the board that hasn't quite finished the book yet. If that's the case, then completely disregard this post. Please don't eat me.)

No, Amy. You;re right. It should have a spoiler warning attached to it. Not only for the US readers, but those in other countries who don;t get the books until much later. And don;t worry about being eaten. I think we prefer cake to human.

Welcome, Salieri!



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"I think we prefer cake to human"

I don't. Cake's ever so boring to talk to.

Hiya, Salieri. I hope you don't mind going among mad people...we're all quite mad here.

Welcome, Salieri!!

Oh, by the way - did you kill Mozart??

In response to SingingHels....I hope not...that would make things a bit awkward.
Sorry about not posting a spoiler warning..... :) (And no, it doesn't sound rude. I live in the US, and was SOOOO upset when the forum for TWOLP started...and the book wasn't released for 5 months!!!!!!)
I don't mind going among mad people, as my friends would say I'm a bit mad myself.
Best Regards,
Antonio Salieri

I apologize wholeheartedly to AmyK...and the other fforumites from my dreadful ettiquette!
Best Regards

Heh. All I can think of on this thread is Mozart(forever personified by Tom Hulce)

this is completely beside the point, but anyway...what IS that line from The Walrus and The Carpenter? i've got it into my head as them talking of shoes and ships and ceiling wax and sausages and kings, but i know that's wrong - i just can't get those sausages out of my head! can anyone offer any enlightenment?

Cabbages.

CABBAGES! but of course! thank you so much, that's been bugging me for days

I was thinking "wabbage" which incidentally, I have none of.

ha! i think i said it was sausages to you yesterday and that was what got me thinking about it, then i come on here and see this and it's like fate. you can just imagine the walrus wanting to talk about wabbage can't you? dirty bugger

Ceiling wax eh? Gosh, that carpenter was keen.

Probably used to be a car mechanic.



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

No, I used to be a car mechanic, and cars don't have ceilings; NO ceilings, NO wax. And no cabbage, wabbage, cribbage, Babbage, or, hopefully, collateral damage.
" The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Of battered tripe, and plastic pipe, and sausages, and stings."
I hope that makes things clear?

" The time has come ,the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes and ships and ceiling wax, of cabbages and Kings. And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings."

I love that poem. And the You are Old father William poem.