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You wanna be careful of those lampreys. When they ask you how many you want, the correct answer is 'less than a surfeit'. I should keep Malmsey out of your butt, too.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
I used to be engaged to a chap called Simon Jones (who has since married another Sarah and become Simon Bucher-Jones), and this Simon was once challenged by one of his lecturers to write a fourteen-line poem in which every single line rhymed (at least approximately) with "aardvark". He succeeded. I can't remember all of it, but it started like this:
Consider thou then also the humble aardvark:
He toils not in the fields, nor sets to hard work,
And yet his tongue-flash, like a starr'd dirk,
Fails not to find the ant though it 'neath shard lurk.
David's aardvark, incidentally, came with the house, or to be more precise with the shed. I found it on the window sill of the shed while helping him go through his preliminary check of the premises, but since it had clearly been living in there for a while, it was a bit mucky and cobwebby. So it needs a wash. Less confused now?
I had to go to threaded view to work out what that meant (although I could have guessed it was re a dreadful pun, but I do so many of them ... *beams*)
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty