but you don't pay council tax

thankfully



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I could still refuse to pay, as a solidarity thing. :)

:) Dell

Hello Dell. Looks like Sheffield is rapidly becoming the centre of the Nextian Universe Have you tried contacting the orgainizers of the Off the Shelf fesitval yet ?

Nah, I'd just get my mom to write it for me, so not much point as I think she already has :)

Is there an accepted collective noun for people from Sheffield? Sheffielders, Sheffieldians, Sheffieldites?

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

well there's Unitedites and Wednesdayites and us lot

but Sheffielders will do fine :-)



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Freedom for the People's Republic of South Yorkshire !

Hic! (That was Wilfred drinking to the above.)



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Sarah

I'm not from Sheffield! I'm from Cardiff.

How about "Steelers"?

I don't think Cardiff County Council will be too happy if i refused to pay council tax unless Jasper was booked in a Sheffield book festival. Otherwise i would... :)

Are you joking?? You can't call Sheffielders "Steelers"!

I'm not the biggest ice hockey fan (having met most of the Steelers a few years back, they don't deserve it)

Who was it who said 'The Fforum - fun for all the family'?



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I think that might have been you, PSD. ;-)



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Sarah

just got this back:

Dear Dave

We have contacted Jasper Fforde unfortunately he is unable to come this year
we will try again next year.

Best wishes

Su Walker

phooey!



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

Did it say it with that amount of grammar??

This person is organising a book festival? Pah, I dunno...



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That was the email I received, copied and pasted.

Bah... *goes away and eats chocolate about it*



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Sarah

Ooh, that seems a good way to deal with it. Wish I'd thought of it yesterday, when I saw a semi-official sign on a shop door that said "Smile! Your on CCTV!"

Annoyed me for most of the afternoon, that.



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Semi-literate as well as semi-official, obviously. Still, it could have been worse. You could have seen the sign I once saw in a greengrocer's shop:

"ALL NUTS, IS PRICED INDIVIDUALY"



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why semi-literate? couple of full stops and it would have read fine, imho.