... dragged back to the mundane after a most fantastic weekend. We had a great time, by dint of following all Susan's recommendations to the letter ... they all came up trumps, so thanks for that. Claire and I have eaten so much good food, and drunk so much good drink, we have both grown little curly tails, and occasionally say 'oink'. Dieting starts here.

The weekend started on a very high note, because waiting for us in our room was a card and a little cake, inscribed 'from the Fforumites' (the card, not the cake). I was most touched at this very kind thought .. thank you very much, Susan, it really made us happy. We saw everything we wanted to see; Claire liked Jane Austen's house best, but I liked King Arthur's Round Table ... OK, it's not the real one, but it's still jolly old, and very impressive. I now have my coffee cup on a coaster of it.

And gosh haven't you all been busy little posters! And I see Twila has been hard at work on the site, and damned impressive it looks, too. Oh, and welcome to all newbies and returnees. I shall be planning some kind of fforum meet to coincide with one of Mr. Ff's signings - he's keen on the idea himself, so stay tuned to this channel for more news.

Yes, I'm back. Cry pillock, and unleash the puns of woe.



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Glad you had such a good time! :-)



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
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Sarah

Any time you're back this way, we'll meet up for an Indian!

Glad you had a good time - and the recommendations didn't fall flat.

Welcome back Jon, glad you had a good time...



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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.

He is looking rather porky now.

Isn't that just what little brothers are for? What an unkind thing to say! Do all little brothers get taken away one night to attend a special little brothers college and get taught all the horrible things to say and do that they say and do?

You know, like the old people college that teaches old people how to stand stand stock still in the doorway after exiting the shop or how to drag their shopper trollies around behind them with the handle fully extended or how to walk very very very slowly in groups of 6 down a busy high street and how to tut very loudly at anyone who is having good time and minding their own business........my friend is due to get her enrolment papers at this college any time now; I'm going with her to burn it down!!

I'm not allowed to tell you what they teach us at Little Brothers College (it's classified) or where it is (in case big brothers turn up and beat us soundly). Rest assured that the horrible things we say and do are not part of the curriculum, those things just come naturally to little brothers (or not so little in certain cases *cough*).

Is that the same college where the old folks learn to drive the same speed no mater what the speed limit is, and to leave their left turn signal blinking at all times?



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--Ross Smith

Yes - that's why I'm going to burn it down!!

Jon...back in the real world? you're calling this the REALWORLD?? I'm sure dodos everywhere are offended, as is Thursday, etc. Probably Jasper as well. And me, of course.

- Currer Bell



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By the way, while browsing drunkenly through Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable at the weekend, I discovered an entry for Panjandrum, and cackled loudly for a while. I didn't know it was real....

I've forgotten what it meant now. My brain is leaking out.



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Panjandrum - A mock title for a person, real or imaginary, who has or,
claims to have, great influence or authority

Panjadrum will be explained in WOLP
:-)

what was the entry you saw?

[www.wordreference.com]

panjandrum [pæn'dʒændrəm]
noun a pompous self-important official or person of rank
[ETYMOLOGY: 18th Century: after a character, the Grand Panjandrum, in a nonsense work (1755) by Samuel Foote, English playwright and actor]


I prefer the one in WOLP...

Yeah, it was the nonsense work I saw quoted. The full thing is

So she went into the garden
to cut a cabbage-leaf
to make an apple-pie;
and at the same time
a great she-bear, coming down the street,
pops its head into the shop.
What! no soap?
So he died,
and she very imprudently married the Barber:
and there were present
the Picinnies,
and the Joblillies,
and the Garyulies,
and the great Panjandrum himself,
with the little round button at top;
and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,
till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

and IIRC it was made up to test somebody who said they could memorise any lines, no matter how nonsensical.



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