Name: Jo Foster
Age: 22 (with a June birthday I was the youngest in the class until I went to my second secondary school...)
Country: England
Random Fact: In 5 days time I will be a Civil Servant



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

Name: Andrea
Age: 39 (not sure I'm too keen on that
Country: UK
Random fact: I'm typing (and correcting mistakes) while being licked and nudged and pawed by a large blur doberman



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




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

Name: Dell
Age: 18
Country: England or Wales, depends on the day
Random fact about yourself: My mom was the first fforumite to meet Jasper. (I met him then too!)
OOh and I wanna post another
Random fact 2: It's Jasper's fault me & Rhys are together. :)



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Dell - How? (About you and Rhys, I mean)

Ooh, hello, you two. I was wondering where you were. Have you been on holiday or something?



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Do something pretty while you can...

Name: Alison
Age: 40 (eep)
Country: Scotland (with forays into London to work)
Random fact about yourself: Hate being forty. Need Aunty Sassy to tell me what's good about it!



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

Better late than never!

Name: Helen
Age: Soon to be 28
Country: UK, but would prefer it to be Canada.
Random Fact: I can touch my nose with my tongue.

MagicMeerkat _
I don't know much Latin: Does your current sig say something about "the best dormice"?

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

Yes - It's about the only useful phrase I ever learned in Latin class. Useful for sigs, anyway! It means "He sells choice dormice".

Simon

It means "He sells the best dormice."

Who 'he' may be I've no idea . . .



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

As I recall, "he" was the local shopkeeper in the textbook "Ecce Romani". I'm a bit hazy on this, but the books followed the lives of two Roman children called Claudia and Cornelius.

Clearly the dormice phrase was the only thing that made any impact on me!

Name: Beatriz
Age: 33
Country: Portugal
Random fact: My favourite subject at school was maths (and english)

Re Dormice _
I remember watching a television documentary about the 'edible' species, some years ago, which ( as I recall it now) was mainly concerned with their feral [in England] population's dual role as a pest & a protected species but also included some discussion about eating them... One of the people interviewed was a butcher who sold them in his shop, who said that

"a Dormouse is basically an up-market Guinea Pig..."

Has anybody in this fforum ever eaten Dormouse? or Guinea Pig?

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

My Form 1 teacher went to Peru this year, and sent us back an email detailing how she and her partner ate guinea pigs that tasted like - wait for it - chicken. Why is it that anything ppl think is remotely gross (frogs legs, escargot etc.) tastes like chicken?



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

I, personally, think that chicken is gross. Escargot, on the other hand, yummy! (Never ate a guinea pig.)

Name: Stella
Age: 23 for many years now, and many years to come
Country: UK
Random fact: I found out today that my birthday is shared by three actors who played major roles in Dr Who: Anthony Ainley (The second Master), Sophie Aldred (Ace) and Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor). Sad, brilliant or inconsequential? You be the judge.

Be patient with me, for I only heard about the books about three weeks ago and I'm still reading Lost... so I probably won't be posting much until I've finished Well. I also have to read the entire fforum before I make any new comments so I don't repeat any previous points.

Bonus random fact: My name is shared by the woman once described as "The World's Most Beautiful Midget Lady", who appeared in "The Wizard of Oz".

Ah, glory by association.

Glamhag, you plan to read the entire fforum? Have you even seen the entire fforum? And keep in mind that it is expanding faster than the universe. Good luck, sweetie. And welcome.

If I were you Glamhag I'd stick to the threads on the first few pages. If you have something specific to ask that you don't want to be repeating people, use the handy 'search' function to see if people have said it before.

Other than that, welcome!



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Ah, yes... point taken. Thanks for the handy hint!

Kaz:

Last year, my mom, Rhys & I went to the abergavenny signing. Rhys & I hadn't seen each other in 5 months. We were considering getting together & cos he lived in Caerphilly & I live in Sheffield, we used the signing as an excuse to meet up in neutral territory. I'm not sure what would have happened if we had not met up there, so I say it's Jasper's fault :)

We started seeing each other two days later - one year 2 weeks ago :)