Ok, you've read all the books, you've discussed it here now tell us....
what are the things you should have gotten (on hindsight) but didn't..

Like:
1. Landen's last name....I collect the stupid things and I never got it until someone here told me.

2. Granny next...should have seen it, should have seen it.

3. slapstick in the real world...saw it only a little before landen pointed it out to thursday.....

so what do you think you should have gotten?

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by the way...I've been convicted of Gramatical Homicide, and charged 18 years to life, so don't bother telling me about all the spelling mistakes. It's already on my record.

I had reread WOLP (in which there's the scene in Granny's memory involving a croquet game) immediately before Something Rotten, but I still didn't catch on until Thursday's sentencing, well after the croquet game in SR.

I was a bit suspicious of the steamroller, and then when Thursday said that if it were a novel instead of the Outland, the seemingly meaningless event would have significance thirty chapters later, I caught on.

However, I was rather annoyed with myself for not getting The Squire of High Potternews until I read the guide to WOLP on the website. As a math-lover, I should have caught that right away!

I'm suprised Muse! I'm definately not a math person, but I got that one (from a half remembered highschool textbook, though, I must admit)

I always have to have a chuckle when I remember how I missed Thursday jumping into her own book.

There's probably loads I still haven't cottoned onto yet though!

What moments did you instantly get and fall about laughing in an embarrassing manner over?

Mine: The veggie plot being full of holes.
(Especially seeing as the plot most certainly ISN'T)

Wait--Thursday jumped into her own book?

When I first read TBOE I was immediately aware that Lola Vavoom was of course Lola from WOLP, but I spent most of the book wondering when Randolph was going to show up despite the fact that Lord Spongg had been introduced as Randolph fairly early on.

I read the books slightly out of order (SR before WOLP), so I'll never know whether I would have gotten Gran's identity or not before the reveal.

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Metaphors be with you!

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> Wait--Thursday jumped into her own book?


Ok, I've missed that too....where is that?

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by the way...I've been convicted of Gramatical Homicide, and charged 18 years to life, so don't bother telling me about all the spelling mistakes. It's already on my record.

Now I'mn gonna have to re-read them all and work out exactly! I'll pop in a page # when I've found it. (It was pointed out to me by a friend)

I do know TBOE mentions The Eyre Affair (as a film) while WOLP, of course, tells us of the creation of the book in its current form. Yay, circular references!

The Eyre Affair was the film that ruined Lola's career in TBOE iirr.... It was released in 1989 or so.

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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

I am going to reread all of them (again)!

I love the names, got to say them all out loud and then instant chuckles - Thursday's stalker and biographer Millon de Floss, brilliant!

Okay, I can't find it, lol. I'm thinking my mate might have meant when she jumped into Caversham Heights/The Big Over Easy. It's not technically a TN book though, so I'll have to email her and get her to tell me which book and where...

Was rereading The Big Over Easy the other day and I came across this reference, which I hadn't noticed before and which made me laugh hysterically:
When Jack and Mary visit Castle Spongg for the first time and Randolph shows them around, they enter a room in which a blue parrot keeps flying around. Near the end of the scene, Randolph comments, "Norwegian blue. Beautiful plumage." This is, of course, a direct quote from Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch!

I actually fell out of my chair when I read that.

I like the Pythons.

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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

*grin* I read that one aloud to a mate, but neglected to put it into any sort of contest.

Still got a laugh!

I always wanted to ask....what is or does Blue Grigham look like? is it uncomforable or ugly to look at or what?

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by the way...I've been convicted of Gramatical Homicide, and charged 18 years to life, so don't bother telling me about all the spelling mistakes. It's already on my record.

Blue gingham is a blue checked fabric: think Dorothy's dress in the Wizard of Oz.

It's not uncomfortable, but it does make Gran look a little dowdy, and it would be totally at odds with Thurs's image. (Of course, it just succeeds in making Gran's awesomeness even more so!)

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Metaphors be with you!

Thanks I've always wondered, I where mostly jeans and t-shirts so usually anything that is not either of those is forigein to me.

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by the way...I've been convicted of Gramatical Homicide, and charged 18 years to life, so don't bother telling me about all the spelling mistakes. It's already on my record.

I didn't get Landen's surname until I re-read The Eyre Affair by reading it aloud! And as children, we were always playing Monopoly!

I've always known it as Park Place, so it wasn't until Houson and Bilden showed up that I got it.

Which one is it anyway? Can someone take a photo of a Monopoly board and point it out?

I know we do not have anything like Park something on our board....

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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