How about a big fforum meet up some time in the summer? My vote goes to Uffington, should be enough open space there to play croquet, and even Scalextric, although whether large white chalk horses come with power outlets is another matter...



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Playing croquet on the side of a hill could be challenging. And where would we get the flamingoes ?

I like the idea of a fforum meet. Jasper would logically be the Master, but we'd need a huntsman and whips.

*silence*



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You said nothing very loudly there, Ben. Is anything wrong?



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Sarah

*still choking*

No, no, nothing wrong.



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*thumps Ben on the back to dislodge obstruction*

Er, better now?



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Er, thanks. I'm just going for a good lie down in the dark...



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anyone played 'Ex libris'? You have a pack of cards which have on themthe name of a book, a short synopsis, plus the first and last line of that book

Questionmaster picks a card, then flips a coin to choose first or last line.

Everyone writes down a line, they're all read out by the questionmaster, including the real first/last line. You vote for which one you think is real. Point if you get the right one, point if anyone votes for yours. Everyone takes turns to read out the synopsis etc so everyone gets a go at writing.

splendid game..

Yes I have. But you know that.

Crucially, whoever's question master reads out the synopsis before the other players write their version of the first/last line.

'Call My Bluff' with books. Great fun ! I can't believe that brought that out as Balderdash - why not just use a dictionary !

I love Balderdash...one of my fave games. We play it a lot with our big extended family. You get some interesting answers from some of the pre-teens. And believe it or not, a lot of theirs are actually a lot more plausible! It's supposed to have a max of 6 players, but we always let everyone play. You make your own game piece...beer bottle caps, earrings, other little trinkets.

In fact, we like Balderdash so much, that some of the definitions have made it into our daily family vernacular. The word was " Pahoehoe" which is supposed to be pronounced Pa-hoy-hoy but was instead pronouced Paw-ho-ho by the 12 year old reading the card. Therefore, all chaos ensued...

Well, the answer given by one of the 14 year old cousins was "What you cry out when you grab a hot casserole out of the oven with your bare hands!" (as in Pot holder! Pah- ho ho!!!!) And it stuck! So now we all call pot holders Pahoehoes!

PS, Pahoehoe is actually a type of lava...characterized by being smoother and sometimes coming from underwater. If it had been pronounced correctly, many of us Discovery Channel/Science junkie types would have known that! LOL

back to the subject of blogs, if only briefly. Has anyone seen/used a service which allows you to update your blog via email instead of having to use the web? I'm conscious of the amount of time I spend online at work. Firing off an email would be preferable....

Blurty will allow you to download a client which sits on your computer and enables you to update without being online. Is that the kind of thing you mean?



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I think LiveJournal does the same.



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pahoehoe is the lave flow that looks like coiled ropes, IIRC from my geology module at uni. Said pa-ho-ie-ho-ie, dontcha know, from a Hawaiian word.



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hehehe, at least the cousin was close by saying it had to do with something hot!

And more interesting than the boot who took the lectures. We once had to sit through a two hour slideshow of her holiday snaps, for no apparent reason.



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a downloadable prog would be fine, if I can persuade it to bypass our firewall here...

Did you say you needed to be invited onto LiveJournal, Jon?

I did say dat, yes. Once you have been a user for a while you get given invite codes, which you can then send to invitees. Alice sent me one to get me in. I believe I am due my first shortly, and fear not, it has your name on it, Dave.

Your firewall may be a prob, though.



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ah well, we can but try. I'm sure I can sweet talk the tech guys to do summat.

WAY up in this thread, fuzz suggested we form a Fforum team for Distributed Proofreaders.

If we did, I'd be happy to join. Would the 164 pages I've done so far (I had a boring week at work) count toward the team score?

(I'm not doing nearly as many pages, now that I'm working mainly on the Botany Manual--it takes 20-30 minutes to do one page--but I started with some pretty easy texts where a page only took a couple minutes.)



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