Acting on Fuzz's suggestion (and wanting to join the team before proofing any more pages) I've just set up a team for us. It's #54, and currently called "Jasper Fforde Ffans"

I can change the name if we want, and we can supposedly come up with an icon for our team if we'd like to (although I can't see how, and nobody seems to have done so, so maybe not).

Oddly enough, in the team listing "Jasper Fforde Ffans" is listed immediately below "Fans of Jesus". So I think it would be particularly amusing if we ended up with a higher page count.

To join the team, go to your personal page (the one that comes up after you log in). There will be a listing for "Your Teams" below which is a link to "View All Teams". Follow the link, hit "next" until you get to #54, and click the "join" link next to our team.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

can you post the link again?

Yep.

[texts01.archive.org]

Sadly, pages you've already proofed before joining the team still count toward your personal rank, but don't count toward the team. However, so we don't look like slackers, I've just proofed some pages in a relatively quick-to-proof text.

While I'm not overly competitive, I do think it'll be fun to see how many pages folks here at the Fforum have proofed.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

ah, found it just as you posted. Joined Team Ffforde! (or Jasper Ffforde Ffans!)

right. now onto some proofing.

ok, now having problems getting it to let me check stuff. When I click on the links at the bottom of my personal page, nothing happens...

Try logging out, and then back in. I had that problem earlier, and that fixed it.

righto...

hya!! wondering if you would like to get involved in some research i am doing. 'The Eyre Affair' is currently going under some scrutiny to see whether it should be included in a university course at southampton university. I have been asked to do a discussion paper concerning its fan base. After reading your post i think your opinion and knowledge of the fan base would be incredibly helpful for my paper. So, would you like to get involved? This will be a serious paper looking at how and why fans feel they are so drawn to the book, and what exactly they feel their role is when participating in such a web fan base. If you would like to get involved please e-mail me:- sistercornish@hotmail.com If you can think of others who would also be interested pass my e-mail address on to them.

Thanks

jessie

Hi Jessie,
If you let us know a few more details, I'm sure some of us would be prepared to whitter on at you. Hell, we whitter on enough to each other.

I'm not sure what you mean from the above. I wouldn't presume myself to have any role whatsoever. This is just a place to meet some like minded individuals and pass the time of day.

I'd be interested to know what a serious paper in English involves. It'll make a change from pushing back the frontiers of science to write papers in maths and electronics...

Rob wrote:

> This is just a place to
> meet some like minded individuals and pass the time of day.

The time sponsored by ChronoGuard is: Twelve, thirty four, and thirty-five seconds *precisely*

Beep. Beep. Beeeeeep.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Is that course the same one or a relative of the one mentioned in the TEA Canonised thread?

And of course you have a role, Rob. You have to keep Dave in order.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

what TEA canonised thread?

it might well have to do with that.

I can't keep Dave in order. That's Kate's job ! (with Eddie's help obviously)

Jessie: In the 'The Eyre Affair' Forum you can find the 'TEA canonised' thread. I suspect they are about the same thing.

I joined the team for DP ... and, very Nextianly, have been doing a work on 'Shakspere's Philosophy' by Delia Salter Bacon (the original Baconian). What a loon she is, and uses way too many italics.

As for this Eyre Affair course, I'm a little wary when the Eng Lit mob stray from their usual canon to consider genre fiction. If it were to contain any hint of amusement at or patronising of 'wacky cult book fans' I wouldn't touch it with a very long thing. I need more detail.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Hell, I'm interested.

EDIT --->

No, sorry. That should have read 'interesting'. I'm still waiting to be dumped by someone with the words "I just don't think we need to be together anymore. After all, I've finished my psychiatry project on unstable idiots now."

As a precaution I'm a: Not dating any psychiatry students and b: not dating. Works pretty well, I reckon ;)



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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.

Actually, I think TEA is probably quite a good thing for Eng Lit - although LIAGB romps through far more of the English literary canon.

I'm not sure any of us count as wacky, and anyone who calls themselves 'kooky' can leave. Now.



PSD

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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.

You'll be happy to know that at present the Fforde Ffans have more members and more pages proofed than the Fans of Jesus (above us on the team list). Of course, I did most of those pages myself when I had nothing much to do at work, and decided to do some relatively easy stuff as a break from 'Lessons and Manual of Botany'.

I can do 10-20 pages of a novel in the time it takes to proof one page of the botany manual. Small print. Lots of bold text and italics. And of course, all the latin names are italicized so they're harder to read. And I won't mention the also italicized greek letters or the figures and footnotes.

However, I'll keep working on it, since I feel like one page of a difficult Botany Manual is a more significant contribution than 20 pages of a novel that anyone could proof. Might as well make use of all those Biology classes I took in the '80s (my B.A. is in Biochemistry). Still, it's fun to switch to something easy for a bit and watch the page count fly by comparison.

BTW Jon, did you know you can highlight the word or words you want italicized, and then click the italics button, and it puts in both the <i> and the </i> at the beginning and end?



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&quot;I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around.&quot;
--Ross Smith