The Alvin Maker (and Homecoming) series were only erratically available in the U.K. The Ender/Shadow and Empire series are a bit easier to get

Prolific: Professional Biographer with a creative flair. Contraction Professional Life Fiction Writer.

Define: Professional

Professional - A room where Catholics go to refuse to describe their sins. Cf confessional.

Define penance

penance - the pirates of a certain town who are not asleep.

Define - catlike

catlike: anagram of 'ace kilt'
and is a comparative for sea urchins, eg, sea urchins are never 'catlike' in their behaviour.


define: sea urchin

I'm surchin for a definition honestly, meanwhile I get the feeling you were a bit bored yesterday Bunyip.

Sea urchin - Characters from Charles Dickens, many fathoms under the sea.

define - undersea

Undersea... our old friend cedilla, a seldom bi-valve




Define Zebedee

Zebedee: pseudonym used by Serge Danot when designing Swindon's infamous traffic management system.

Define roundabout

roundabout: a quantum effort at traffic management.


(I am never bored. My brain is no longer active enough to reach the threshold of awareness at which boredom can arise. See 'emergent properties' in philosophy.)


Define: oxo cube

oxo cube - a traditonal 2d childrens game, updated to 3d in time for the school holidays.

Define - blockbuster

Block Buster - slightly aggresive man built of Lego who operated as a VJ in the early days of MTV. Hugely and, by and large unfathomably, popular. Sadly, as a direct result of such early success, he fell to pieces and was never the same again. Recent rumours of a reality show based on his attempt to re-build his former career have been strongly denied by the MTV network.

Define: Gangster



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G angster... an ante-diluvian nerd who worries about his daily fluid consumption now that litres are the norm ( as opposed to gallons)



Define pinta

Pinta: a glass bottle containing a model of one of Christopher Columbus' ships.

Define expedition

Expedition: A condition where one insists on traveling by car rather than walking.

Define: otiose

An adjective aligned to the rare comparative "otioser"

Define Obfuscate

Obfuscate: the mid-slide attempt to disguise a skid along a skid patch in an icy playground when spotted by a person of authority

Define mid-slide

mid-slide - What happens to a 40-year old's belly.

Define - unglamourous

An ugly word when spelled correctly but even uglier when spelled wrongly


Define knowall

ii immediately supressed the thought of 'wank lol' and moved on to 'WA knoll' which is a place made of non-iron ore or other valuable minerals which will be left when they have finished exporting the million or so square miles that is Western Australia.

According to my son who has just spent 6 months over there one moves back culturally 20 years when one crosses the rabbit proof fence from east to west.

He also said that they have dug so many holes that they are now exporting them at a @#$%& cost to places that do not have an adequate hole supply, such as golf courses in the Arctic.


****Edited to comment that the non-alpha characters are a production of the fforum or of the system supporting it and while I do not necessarily agree with the sentiment it does seem to improve on what I had written.

Now read 'ON'.



Define: gratuitous



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