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Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 12, 2006 12:15PM

<offers Martin some sugary cakes with thick icing (frosting for Americans)>

<wonders how much of a sugar rush can be induced in one person>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: 198505 (---.cable.ubr04.pres.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: November 12, 2006 03:27PM

<runs up and down the isle, screaming 'WE'RE ALL DOOMED'>

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Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Lady Teaspoon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: November 12, 2006 03:38PM

<wonders if 198505's scream refered to the mountain or Martin's sugar rush>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: November 12, 2006 05:28PM

<wonders if there is an equivelant to Lenz's Law that holds for sugar highs>

<explains that Lenz's Lawstates that any current in a wire loop will flow so as to oppose the induced current>

<build boat instead>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 12, 2006 05:43PM

<calls all the animals to come in pairs, then helps Martin build the ark bigger.>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Zuki-pah (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: November 13, 2006 09:11AM

<wonders if MS and Martin will ask for help with the animals>

<realises she has to get off the doomed flight first>

<starts searching for a parachute>


'Who looks after the animals?'

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (61.68.164.---)
Date: November 13, 2006 02:13PM

<Mountain pouts and trudges away, crying because no-one offered it any cake>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: November 14, 2006 04:21PM

<wonders where Zuki is, all these animals should be right up her street>

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 14, 2006 05:57PM

<points out that Zuki is up *there*, but has kindly offered to help.>

<watches a large elephant run by, followed by a giant echidna…>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: November 16, 2006 12:21AM

<watches crumpet-encrusted dormouse run past>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 16, 2006 05:44AM

<settles back in a lawn chair with a glass of lemonade (with a little umbrella in it)>

<figures as long as we're watching all the animals, we might as well get comfy--let someone else figure out how to get them all onto the ark!>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: PrinzHilde (---.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
Date: November 16, 2006 12:36PM

<watches from his airplane seat all the animals gathered around the ark>

<laughs with glee when airplane sweeps low above them and they all run away in panic>


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Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 16, 2006 06:54PM

<looks at elephant in brandy glass>

<thinks that perhaps should not drink quite so much brandy>

<opens Tequila>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.tenet.saix.net)
Date: November 16, 2006 10:34PM

<avoids all the alcohol>

<drinks water>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Lady Teaspoon (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date: November 17, 2006 02:42AM

<Puts teabag in the water, and goes to find the crumpets>

<remembers I am still on the un-doomed airplane>

<remembers that if the mice found the crupmpets first, they probably aren't that desirable now>

<pouts>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: November 17, 2006 08:47AM

<offers Martin 1 table tennis bat and 1 ping-pong bat to see if he can land the aircraft>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 17, 2006 03:42PM

<Hands SkidMarks a vampire bat and a fruitbat as replacements.>

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: Zuki-pah (---.nsw.bigpond.net.au)
Date: November 18, 2006 02:20AM

<lands on roof of her house after finding parachute and jumping from doomed/un-doomed plane>

<watches as animals run down the street two-by-two>

<pulls out extra large stash of yummy zoo food and lures animals into the yard before calmly shutting the gate>

<hopes Martin and MS turn up with the ark before the whole garden is wrecked>


'Who looks after the animals?'

Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: November 18, 2006 04:58AM

<grabs discarded parachute to make a sail for the boat--no drifting aimlessly for this ark!>



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Re: Another Branch Of The Tree House
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: November 18, 2006 05:01PM

<refuses to rely on vagaries of nature>

<starts making fusion engine out of scrap metal>

__________________________________
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

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