Shakespeare's only direct descendant was a granddaughter I think.

Ali! Welcome back!

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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

So Shakespeare didn't have any sons or daughters but went straight to having a granddaughter? How did that work?

Think my oldest book is probably a history of mathematics book from the late 1800s that I picked up when my school library was having a book sale. But I'm not sure if I still have it.

:P Pedant.

Furthest removed direct descendant then.

Welcome back to you too Muse.

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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

Hello, This is my first post to the forum. My Oldest book is a Vanity poetry book by Jane Roseboom 1869. I only skimed it the poems in the front of the book are mostly doggrel thou at the end she is showing more maturity.

Yay Muse hi!

Welcome to fforum Bursar!

I forgot to mention, my parents have a complete set of Encyclopedia Brittanica from 1913. I already made sure that it comes to me in The Will...

Welcome TBD! Help yourself to pie, but try not to get crumbs in the pages. If you must, then the shortcrust will cause less damage than the flaky.

Ali! How are you?

If you don't do pies, I'm sure there are plenty of dried frog pills about.

Thank you, my sister got after the death of our father the Childresn World Book Encycopidia I think was in the 1920s or so. Very intresting it had puzzles rather long descriptions of subjects for a childrens encylopedia. My mother has a home medical book published in the 1920s and was a reprint for state of the art for the 1880s or 1890s or so it explained how to make a mustard poltace ect. I got her a more moderen one.

Im not too fond of pie so i guess i would have to take the dried frog pills. And im resonably fine for someone who has to take my own version of the dried frog pills. I have Major Depression. So how are all of you? By the way for any English here while i was looking for the book i first mentioned i also found a book titled About England by M V Huges 1928 by William and Morrow and Co a small bound book. I dont remeber where i did get it. It is a bit fragile, but now that i know i have it i will read it.

OK, what's the story behind your name? And would you like some tea with your pie?

Welcome Bursar,

if you are off pie and dried frog pills at the side of the room frequented by antipodeans there are deep fried mars bar and pie floater.

Othe rbooks on England which may still be read with pleasure are '1066 and All That' by Sellars and Yeatman, and also 'And Now All This' which has a large section devoted to 'exporto grass'..... Also a book titled 'This England' which is composed of extracts from press cuttings and magazine stories of the Septic Isles. Quite revealing and mystifying.

Having read them before I went to the UK the first time I found them most helpful.


You are not alone in the fforums with the Black Dog. I have suffered from it all my life and have a collection of little white pills that are becoming somewhat well known due to the pills of other colours with whom they associate. My particular form is caused by a problem with the seratonin levels in the brain not being adequate due to a dysfunctional body. When this is remedied I'm as sane as the next person - but only if I chose who the next person is.

Since the statistics indicate that about one in three persons suffers from some serious form of depression in their lives I would guess that there are other sufferers of it in the fforums who are living with it. I hope you've got it under control and can live without the worst effects arising.



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Thank you,House in The Woods the first time i read Alice Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There. When it came to the point where Alice entered the Woods of No Name insted of meeting the Fawn right away. She met an old guy at a desk. They had a short converstaion (He asked what she wanted. She replied about not knowing her name or where she was.) He summoned the Fawn to help her and from that point it went on as normal.

The man was basicly a glorified receptionist of some sort. Which in our part of the US can also be called a busar.

My granny just gave my dad a trio of books about some English guy's travels in the heathen lands north of Berwick! I think they date back from the late 1700s or early 1800s, I will check so as I still live at hiome I can share them by default!

That is such a great name, so nothing to do with the Bursar who partakes in dried frog pills?

I didn't know that about the word Bursar, you live and learn!

Thank you bunyip, i basicly get allong thouh i suffer more in the concentration department. I do not know if mine is serotoin based or not. And i had it since i was 14. It does make me identify with fictional charcaters that are depressed. Ill have to look at some of my stored books to see if i do have anything older.

nope im not that bursar nemads but i do take my own version of the dried frog pills. And about that far as i can tell that is a meaning of bursar but it has been a while since i heard it used. Any way i wonder if jasper fforde got his idea by somthing similar happining to him.

They concentration departments now? I wonder if they go camping....

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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

The fire-side songs would be interesting.

I suspect they probably eat more beans than usual which causes an abundance of gas.

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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

And you know, the instructions tell you not to take those Coleman lanterns in the tent with you...verrrry dangereuse.

Heya! I like your story of how you got your name. I love those Alics in Wonderland novels, nothing quite like it these days, except for Jasper of course!

If you have any clay or Al2O3 related queries, I'll be happy to help.


Additionally fish oil is meant to be very beneficial.

Sillimanite, Kyanite or Andelusite? (Hope I got those right....)

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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