...indicate that next year's Ffiesta wis a roaring success!

Your fforganisers have now found an exciting new venue, coming to a Swindon near you (well, some of you anyway) May 2008.

Make sure you keep the weekend of 3rd - 5th May free and start saving for some new ffordian goodies now.

Further details to follow

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Some days I see the point

Eeeeeeeeee!!!!!! I shall put a penny in the bank with instructions for Friday to take it out in 1,000 years and return it to me next May so that I will have funds for plane tickets, hotel room, and souvenirs!

Hmm. I'll have to make it for the one after next, lol.

Woo hoo, can't wait. Will have to start thinking about fancy dress, a year isn't that long!

If we win the loot (double rollover - no shares - you are all invited)

If at all possible mrs. SkidMarks and I will be there.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

*wants to come but will not be able to*

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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

*will come if I win the lottery jackpot, or manage to get on deal or no deal*

Bookmark the Ffiesta website for more news as and when it unfolds - coming soon: photos of the mysterious "exciting new venue" we've found....

[www.ffordeffiesta.com]

I will certainly be there, or square, probably both!

Andy-Lee
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Andy-Lee, no one can accuss you of being square, I've seen the evidence.

Just so no one thinks the Ffiesta is an elabarate joke - like last time - please look at the pictures on the Ffiesta website [www.ffordeffiesta.com]

To confirm it, there is also an announcement on the "Appearences" page on this excellent website [www.jasperfforde.com] , so it must be true!

MuseSusan Wrote:
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> Eeeeeeeeee!!!!!! I shall put a penny in the bank
> with instructions for Friday to take it out in
> 1,000 years and return it to me next May so that I
> will have funds for plane tickets, hotel room, and
> souvenirs!


And lots to spare... Just leave it in your current account paying a measly 1% a year and you'll end up with about 21,000 in the currency of your choice. Chuck it in a high interest account at 5% pa and that'll be about 1.5 x 10^19 - thats 15 billion, billion, billion.

Invest it in an index tracking fund... that'll give you arround 11% pa, averaged over the long term, that takes us up to 2.1 x 10^45. 2100 billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion, billion.


But, you may ask, why isn't the country flooded with time travellers who are rich beyond the dreams of avarice?
The problem is, transporting the funds back to the current day. Modern day banks won't accept eurouble* chips issued at the turn of the next millenium. Few coins and notes from the current era survive through Blue Monday** and the price of precious metals, gems and other items that would be tradeable in the 21st century makes their purchase unfeasible.

But bear in mind, there is only about 50 million, billion dollars worth of stuff in the world, then you can afford to take a bit of a loss, and should you find the right marketable goods then I think we can safely say the drinks will be on you at the Ffiesta!

Rob

* Eurouble: most stable global country from the creation of the Eurasian Empire in 2854 to the Spencer Rebellion of September 9th 3110
** The famous date when all currency became electronic. Accounts became accessible by an implanted access chip in the palm of the hand. All hard currency had to be surrendered by Blue Monday, when it became worthless. The so-called Belgian Barter economy, the infamous Manhattan Hand Thief, and the powerful glove industry meant that this experiment was doomed to fail.

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

I would put it in the bank a long time ago instead. That way we know what is happening to it.

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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

My brain melted, reading that!

Just go back a little way and buy some Microsoft shares when they were first issued: much faster growth than bank interest rate and who knows, you may even have enough left over to take a vacation on a space station.......

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Hmmm.... Any way to bring it down afterwards?

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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

tell it that as space stations go, it is not very pretty?

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Forget it's birthday...

Remember which birthday it is.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Buy it a garden fork when you know it really wanted a mini break in the Milky Way (not that I'm bitter or anything)

Tell it that maybe it *shouldn't* wear that dress... Not that it's bum looks big or anything...