<Wonders how weapons got through the metal detector in the treehouse door...>

<watches squirrels lose interest in nuts and start to chase hazelnuts>

<reads pamphlet on the use of ceramics as a metal substitute in weapons technology>

<hides the fact that the plug isn't pluged in on the metal dector>

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Blood! Death! War! Rumpy pumpy! Triumph!

<puffing slightly from climbing up from exhilarating slide ride>

<wonders wher WWIII broke out and how history will record the role of the squirrels?>

<Avoids hazelnut/nut/squirrel/grenade tangle to grab some more chocolate cake>

<looks up and discovers there's a new cloud overhead>

<wonders how many treehouse denizens were stuck on the last cloud when it moves>

<decides to hold a roll call>

<"everyone who's not here, raise your hand">

<puts hands into pockets>

<removes hands>

<puts hands into own pockets>

<Raises hand>

<considers yesterdays birthdays and thinks the new land maybe the amazing Land of Birthdays!>

<Hops up the ladder to find out....>

<holds up another sign: SHAVE THE WHALES!>

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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

<sad that its dame smackalots land>

<rubs bottom - ouch!>

<realises that perhaps knows a litte too much about MFT!>

<considers whether it's possible to know too much about MFT>

<decides it probably isn't>

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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

<points out the interesting glow-in-the-dark uzi>
<Tries very hard not to wish for fairy wings for birthday...>

<realizes that I am never, never going to be able to catch up with everything that has been happening in this thread in my absence!>

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Metaphors be with you!

<Installs a chocolate fountain for Moox>

<dips a hob nob in just to check its working!>

<hands Nem a packet of Hob Nobs in thanks for installing the chocolate fountain>
<opens her own packet of Hob Nobs, and dips one in to test the chocolate>

<resists the lure of the chocolate fountain>

<resists.....>

<resists.....>

<caves in>

<holds nose and jumps into fountain and starts doing the backstroke>

<Throws Xmorpheus a lifebelt, just in case>

<Retracts lifebelt, seeing it is now very chocolatey>

<Starts to eat Lifebelt, collapses from chocolate- related shock>

<hopes Barefoot Andy does not realise that xmorpheus is also chocolate covered........>

<sympathizes with Puck, but points out that a whole new circumstance will be along soon>

<Tries to grab spoon, but realises there is no spoon, so grabs a shovel and pushes through to the chocolate>

<tosses xmorpheus an organic apple to dip in the fountain>
<wonders if apple + chocolate is a good thing>

<thinks chocolate apple sounds ickky>

<finds chocolate orange>
<smiles contentedly>