Hi Sam

I'm probably the next newbiest to you, I think. It's a great place - and as well as duck and fish there are puns on pretty much everything that's punnable, seems to me...



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

Sarah and Ptolemy - how I type in the privacy of my own home with my curtains tightly drawn I'm not about to disclose on here. However if you wish me to email you the details,....................................................................
...........................then you're very sad!!!

and Ptoles, (Pothole?!) I can only assume you weren't meaning left or right cheek, damn cheek if you ask me. and even if you don't ask me.

Email me the details, Holly? I want a photo at least! Hee!

Oh dear that must make me really sad then...

You're forgiven for stumbling over my name, everyone does Holly (though I have to say, "Porthole" is a new one!). For future reference, it's a silent P.

Easy to remember: when you're addressing Ptolemy, just take the P out of him :(

A Ptolemy popped up in a book I was reading the other day, called The Love Of Books. He was quoted as having said something like "You have not died, if you have given life to science".



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Do something pretty while you can...

Dante - Was this a pop-up book for adults? I only ask because one of the course books for my degree in Biology was "The Human Evolution Colouring Book" Homework was things like - Colour in pages 21-24.

Ack! No, he didn't *actually* pop up, that would have been alarming.

But I do like the sound of your coursework. Colouring in good.



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Do something pretty while you can...

Not sure I like the sound of me popping up either come to think of it dante, although I suppose it's preferable to popping off.

The nearest thing I got to a degree was a temperature, though then again I never was very good at staying inside the lines when I did colouring in :(

Wasn't/isn't there a tortoise called Ptolemy in a Beatrix Potter book? I'd imagine the one quoted was the ancient Greek astronomer & scientist though, I'm not sure tortoises are too hot on science. Mine aren't anyway. Although they do make a science of eating cabbage. Sorry... waffling again. I'll get me coat....

Ptolemy - could draw it I suppose but it might need the use of a mirror - hey would this be a commission?

Hi to the newbie from another newbie - don't worry about your thread degenerating in this rapid fashion, that's quite normal for fforum standards.
I've been here for a week and I feel rather nicely integrated, I must say... :-)



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Never put a sock in a toaster!
E. Izzard

...actually this is the newbie-friendliest forum i've ever come across.

Hi from me as well :)



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Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

(N. Chomsky 1957)

I just remember that Ptolemy is the family name of Cleopatra....easy peasy! And GSD knows I've watched enough historical documentary footage with my husband to know how to pronounce it!

The tortoise is 'the Alderman Prolemy', who keeps the company of 'Sir Isaac Newton' (ukh) and 'Mr Jeremy Fisher' (frog - but not French or dried).

Bea - I met you in December, and I've only been posting here for about 10 months...



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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.

Well I think this fforum does strange things to your sense of time, if not indeed your sense of humour. When I was just a lurker and not a poster I had a mental picture of PSD looking like one of those archaeology buffs from 'time team' (well i did say it was mental)

Terminology for 'The Well of Lost Threads' please? Or verminology?

We now have 'lurker', and 'poster', and maybe 'statutory appointee to insult Ben'. Any others? 'Panjandrums' are known, what about 'game flamer' ?

Slightly worried that I might have looked a bit like any of the people off Time Team (apart from that attractive paeleopathologist with the attractive red hair and the penchant for skinny tops, although obviously there are certain differences once you get beyond the hair colour)...



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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.

NOOOOO! Mental picture not wanted! Out, out, damn thought! Will none of the perfumes of Arabia sweeten this lily mind?