are you going for the Amazon option then?

Well, I'm still open to other options if I can get it faster but not drastically more expensively.

I wonder how much it would cost to send a small homemade soft dodo to the UK from here? (Contemplating barter possibilities....)

Going back to avoiding spoliers, I suspect (and this didn't require a huge leap of logic) that there will be a seperate ffoum for WOLP, thus allowing us to discuss stuff.

Although to be honest, I can't remember anyone saying 'ooh, I loved that bit where Thursday..."



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A good point. If we keep all the spoilers in one forum, those that don't want to see them yet will know where not to look.

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Barter for soft dodos sounds good to me .... how many copies did you say you need? Any other colonials got goods to trade?



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I'd trade for a bulk lot of cinnamon tictacs. Just can't get them over here. As Rob will testify, anyone who knows me who even remotely contemplates a trip to the states gets badgered to bring me some back...

I pre-ordered my copy of WOLP from Post Mortem books over a month ago. I bought my LIAGB signed copy from there as well. The owner, Ralph Spurrier, seems to be a delightful chap. For my LIAGB purchase, I didn't want to just email my credit card number and asked him to call me....and he did...transatlantic! Cool. I think my copy of WOLP is also to be signed...and for the same cost as a non-signed version from Amazon... So you might want to check that route, Magda. And I imagine he'll ship them out as quickly as he gets them and they're "allowed" to be sold.

And Jon & Dave, that's a good point about bartering. I've been dying for some good black tea - Lady Londonderry blended by Jackson's of Picadilly (really hard to get here!) ...and some Arthur Wood & Sons teapots....maybe we can work a trade. And as I have a membership to a warehouse club, I can probably get tic-tacs for you. Sorry, Jon, I don't have any special connections for stuffed dodos, but I have been contemplating making some custom entroposcopes! (set in permanent coincidence mode, of course!)

I shall keep my eyes peeled for that tea...

I'm starting to feel like Klinger and Radar O'Riley talking to the other units trying to get contraband brought into camp!

AAC: found this site, is this the stuff?

[www.teaandtrading.com]

(I know it scuppers my tictac options...)

Hmm, having tried Google I see the problem with Tic-Tacs. One search I did turned up precisely one hit, with the snippet google provides reading

"The out- break was first identified in the UK but has also been confirmed in ... said the infected cows were grazing next to sheep that were imported from Britain ..."

Now, just what the Hades are in those there pills of just one calorie and two hour freshness? I understand the cinnamon thing, btw, my mother bought a load of cinnamon sticks for the christmas tree one year and I would sit and suck them. Pine and cinnamon - lovely!



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Being like Radar is one thing, but I'll get worried if you start deconstructing dodos and sending them state-side in numerous small cardboard boxes.



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Where in Hades? I don't want to know- and surely after they'd passed through his system, you wouldn't want to EAT them, would you???

Would you???

Dave,

That's close...that's their own blend. I've tried several other places' blends that claim to be Lady Londonderry. However, none of them seem to come close to Jackson's of Pickadilly. I think they slip some kind of addictive chemicals in there. Maybe it's just the quality of the basic tea leaves that they use. Whatever it is, nothing else comes close in my estimation. Thanks for checking that out!

Oh, and if there is something someone REALLY wants, please let me know because I have no problem letting you PayPal me some moolah after I buy and ship the item. Just like Ebay, only you choose what you want me to ship! And I don't do an upcharge!

I found a website that sell cinnamon TicTacs in 24 packs, but they are in the States, and don't ship internationally.

[www.ordercandy.com]



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I spent about thirty minutes with Google, and couldn't find anything. Maybe Harrods would do it, if you don't mind shopping witht he Phoney Pharaoh (pharah? Phaoaoiraoh? whatever...)



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I've looked all over for the tictacs, but as you say, they come in packs of 24 (speaking of which, is anyone else watching the new series??)

Now I've no problem with 24 packs of tictacs, it's just the shipping was horrendous.

24 packs? How many calories in that? And how many hours of freshnes?

The public deserve to be told...



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some, and lots, in that order.

If you can't get cinnamon Tic Tacs, you could always go and buy a copy of "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" and make yourself some dried frog (or ffrog) pills. These contain cinnamon, among other things, and they are rather nice.



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