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Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: Jazz_Sue (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: July 19, 2008 03:14PM

I was googling for a job in the brewing research industry, got put straight through to this:
[goliath.ecnext.com]

Your thoughts, please!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/19/2008 03:15PM by Jazz_Sue.

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.40.63.3.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: July 21, 2008 11:37AM

I don't think you will be able to manage the daily commute

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: Jazz_Sue (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: July 21, 2008 01:23PM

Nope, not unless things go really crazy, and we suddenly hear about the imminent opening of a bloody great tunnel right through the Earth's core. But have you studied it closely? Goliath and Next, both on the same link address. Spooky! (Especially if you consider 'ec' could stand for 'Earth Central.')

I know what you lot are thinking - lying bitch, she googled 'Goliath' because she doesn't get out enough. But for once, I wasn't thinking ffordian thoughts at all -I WAS job searching, honest! But then this came along, and all of a sudden there I was, back here again where it's all safe and homely.

What was it we were saying about clumping?

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.40.18.82.sub.mbb.three.co.uk)
Date: July 22, 2008 09:29AM

Being convinced that Goliath in RealWorld in a software(tm) company(tm) based in Redmond(tm), the tunnel may become a possibility, but I still think you ought to consider breweries closer to home: Masham or Tadcaster, perhaps?

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: Jazz_Sue (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: July 23, 2008 02:01PM

Or Nutfield, which is where I was aiming for. Thing is, I specifically typed in the address of a company I know was headhunting ex-employees of my old lab a week ago, and it starts with a 'B' not a 'G'. That one turned up 5 places further down!
Perhaps GoogleGod was sending me a message, because how the hell my job search switched from NHS pathology to one specialising in getting people from the brew to the ambulance in the quickest time possible is beyond me.
Could be something to do with the wages of sin being significantly higher than the money of morality.

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: Jazz_Sue (---.bb.sky.com)
Date: July 23, 2008 10:27PM

More proof (if ever it were needed):

[i36.photobucket.com]

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: July 25, 2008 02:17AM

Do they have Vegemite on their toast?

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: CannibalRabbit (---.VIC.netspace.net.au)
Date: July 30, 2008 11:24AM

More proof of a Ffordian world at shirts.woot.com with this:

When you go down to the woods today
You’re in for a big surprise
Because they sold off most of the woods last week
And they put in a high rise
The flooring guys came down Tuesday morn....


Probably a bit more Jack Spratt than Thursday but even so! These guys are completely off the wall - no wonder I spent so much time there today.

Re: Proof we DO live in Thursday World!
Posted by: Stina (---.wfd74b.dsl.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 30, 2008 11:44AM

More proof of our continued Nextian existance:

I'm in the process of applying for PGCE (teacher training) courses, while filling in an online application form I was totally baffeled as to why it kept saying my answeres wer 'not valid'. After about 20 minutes I realised that no form of puntuation was allowed on the form!!!! A pre-emptive strike against Grammasites?



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