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bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Cure for dry cake - soak in sweet or med dry sherry. When you can suck it up a straw, filter through wafer and throw cake away. Drink filtered liquor.
Can be done also with mint flavoured drinks but they work best on chocolate cake.
Also honoured to communicate with small number of monkey descendents to whom the writings of the Fforde are of value.
May I suggest, if not already known, the scribes named Pratchett T; Rankin R; and Holt T.