Maybe I should find out who hid the pudding cannon-
suddenly have this fierce craving for chocolate pudding...

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Tee hee - pudding cannon makes me think of Wallace splatting Gromit with the porridge gun or whatever it was (must watch those again soon)

Belated welcome!
And don't ignore the Aussies- He only says that because we get a public holiday for a horse race.







Two flies crawling up a wall, anyone? Taking all bets!

You do?

Well, I could make nasty jokes about you and the Kiwis regarding a certain world cup that recently ended....

What is the difference between the Aussies and a teabag?

The teabag stays in the cup longer. :P

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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

Sorry I'm late! (This work stuff is a bit too time-consuming.)

Fresh pies, sweet over there and savoury over here.

Welcome Anton, (although you are an old-timer by now, the welcome is still warmly meant. It is good to see Splat back, too.

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

Pff. No-one cares about that Martin. It's not *real* footy.

I wouldn't mind if the cup didn't exist at all! Forcing poor creatures to run around in hot weather, that's just cruel. ^_^

BwH: I feel much the same. It is fun to poke you about though.... :P

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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

Yes, perhaps we'd all best muster up some narrow-minded, one-eyed sporting patriotism so it's not a wasted effort.

Conkers! The U.K. won that!

In fact it was just Ingerland, not the other bits of the Yuck.

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

Who won the air guitar championships?

Let us cast these sporting insults to the ashes.

Brings back a memory of when in the yuk. Irish jokes were all the rage. (So were the IRA and wonders who else has had the lovely experience of being trapped in the upstairs bar of a pub for 4 hours because there was an IRA bomb threat down stairs and nobody came to look for us until about 11.15pm. My friend and I had 22 empty pint glasses on the bar when we were found and had plaqyed about a million games of darts.)

I had a sheet of Irish jokes printed on broadsheet in about 10 pitch. One of the last was:

Q: Why do the Irish think that the wheel barrow was one of the greatest inventions ever?

A: Because it taught the English to walk on two legs.


The last joke was:

Q: What is black and blue and floats of Milford Haven?

A: An English person telling Irish jokes in Dublin.

Hiya, Anton! (belated welcome)
I like your taste in literature/tv/movies!

Thanks! I like it to!

Thanks to my slow memory, and the fact that I have both read and finished The Fourth Bear, Going Postal, Thud!, and Equal Rites since I posted the first time, I have a couple more things to add

I forgot to mention that I also like

Bones (the show, I have not read the books yet, but the Fforde mention has gotten me interested)

Boston Legal (Mad Cow!)

Red Dwarf

All Creatures Great and Small

and The Last Detective (just started the show actualy)

the last three are pretty much covered by the blanket "Anything British" statement but who doesnt like lists?

Hi ANton
Im new here too but have been a JFf fan since buying TEA (1st ed) yonks ago, in Manchester (UK) I bought it on impulse because of its conncetion to Jane Eyre (I am a self confessed Lit Classics anorak, just about to finish a dissertation on Jane Austen at Uni). I now have precious HB copies of every JFf book incl a signed 1st of TFB. I also have several versions of all the books in soft back, incl some US copies, some UK eds which are very tatty, which I occasionally loan out in order to reel in others.
But Jasper is my only sci-fi/fantasy vice. I can't stomach any other I'm afraid. And when Ive gone through them all, as I do annually, I then revert to the classics (often reading the TN books prompts me to reread ones I've forgotton about for a while- thanks JAsper)
I apologise to all in advance if my spelling/grammar is not what it should be, and I'm on lthe lookout for bookworms to rectify my problems.

Anyone who loves Red Dwarf is a friend of mine!

My whole family love Red Dwarf!

Re-reading is good, it saves my life. I should be able to finally allow myself to get TFAS!!! I had to throw my heart away for the past few months, and finally have been able to ring my dear friend the Little Bookroom (Christine and the others). I will have a tete a tete with the book shortly I think! Hooray for finishing my course!

The Last Detective - nice understated British crime series, complete with Peter Davison. What a fantastic way of whiling away a few hours. And All Creatures . . . whatever happened to Christopher Timothy? It seems like Seigfreid is everywhere at the moment - popping-up all over the place.

Christopher Timothy is starring in the dreadful 'Doctors' daytime soap on the Beeb isn't he? And his ex-wife Carol Thingymejig, who also played his wife in ACGAS, runs a vineyard in Tuscany or something.

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> My whole family love Red Dwarf!




Wow!

sadly, mine dont really care about most of the British stuff, some pop through, like The Thin Blue Line(must add that to the list!), a little Monty Python and The Office (There's another one!)

The new version of Dr Who is going over well (we've seen the first three episodes, and are waiting for the rest to come off of Short Wait on Blockbuster Online)

I had a bit of a Brit nerd moment with Who when I had to explain the Naples/Cardiff joke in The Restless Dead. I spent two minutes prior to watching the episode with the family explaining the reason Cardiff is not as exciting as Naples to a Londoner (which was wasted, the joke flopped)

<Flashbacks to dreadful nights translating Hamish MacBeth and Ballykissangel for the family because I was the only one who could understand the accents. Screams.>

You weren't there, man. You weren't there...