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random observation
Posted by: Pam (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: July 21, 2003 08:56PM
Hello everyone. I've never actually posted before on here which is why you're probably wondering who the heck I am. Anyway, I just finished WoLP last night (thanks to the magic of amazon.co.uk - no waiting until March). At the end in the advertisement section the ad for the Footnoterphone shows an ISBN number. Since I'm a total geek I looked it up and it turned out to be an edition of Gulliver's Travels! Ok, I thought it was exciting, the whole connection to TN-2 and everything - but then again I am a geek, so those things do excite me :o)
That's it - I'll be going back to being a lurker for a while.
That's it - I'll be going back to being a lurker for a while.
Re: random observation
Posted by: Rob (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 21, 2003 09:16PM
Nice one Pam. That's the kind of attention to detail we like. (Well I like, best not speak for the rest.)
Re: random observation
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 22, 2003 01:05AM
It's the kind of attention to detail that has me thinking 'Why the bleedin' hell didn't I try that?'
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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.
Re: random observation
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 22, 2003 05:35AM
yes, but what's on page 223 of Gulliver's Travels? That's the actual address to find the sales team!
Re: random observation
Posted by: AlisonS (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 22, 2003 06:53PM
which edition though?
Re: random observation
Posted by: Pam (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: July 22, 2003 11:01PM
It's the Penguin Classics edition of Gulliver's Travels. I guess he chose that one since they're the US distributor of his books (at least the editions I have).
Re: random observation
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 23, 2003 06:32AM
okay, so what's on page 223????
Re: random observation
Posted by: splat21 (213.38.32.---)
Date: July 23, 2003 01:29PM
It's the grand Academy of Lagado in Laputa - the one where all the professors are obsessed with their most, um, remarkable inventions which one day really will revolutionise Life As We Know It/replace whatever commonplace thing happens to be used atm - though I think the Footerphone may even be a bit too practical for them. I mean, it actually works!
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
Re: random observation
Posted by: Magda (---.med.umich.edu)
Date: July 23, 2003 02:53PM
Fabulous! Good catch!
Re: random observation
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: July 24, 2003 04:08AM
Just to show how UNobservant I am, I only realised last night, after three readings of TEA, one of LIAGB and now reading WOLP, that there is no chapter 13. Durrr, Frederick!
Re: random observation
Posted by: Nicky (---.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net)
Date: July 24, 2003 05:06AM
Me too. I just didn't notice!
Re: random observation
Posted by: kaz (139.134.57.---)
Date: July 25, 2003 04:55AM
I was looking up answers to the quiz using TEA and wanted to check chapter 13 thinking the answer to the question might be there. I went to the relevant page only to discover there was nothing there!
Re: random observation
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 26, 2003 12:40AM
I hadn't noticed until somebody pointed it out on another thread - or forum.
Re: random observation
Posted by: dante (---.internal.omneuk.com)
Date: July 28, 2003 11:14PM
I hadn't noticed till somebody asked a question about it in Leeds, I think.
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Do something pretty while you can...
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Do something pretty while you can...
Re: random observation
Posted by: Rhea (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: August 04, 2003 12:47AM
... And I live above a bookstore with an ISBN computer. And I didn't look for that. I feel rather stupid -- but, Pam, welcome to the Fforum and that's a fab idea!
Re: random observation
Posted by: Anonymous User (195.163.30.---)
Date: August 04, 2003 07:46AM
It would however be interesting to know more about the hidden meanings in the chapter 13 headings in the Contents in all three books. I don't have the books here at office, but as I remember two of the headings were about churches (or maybe not).
/Mattias
(Absolutely no connection to Mathias, the horse)
/Mattias
(Absolutely no connection to Mathias, the horse)
Re: random observation
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 04, 2003 08:54AM
Wasn't one of the churches were Jasper and Mari were married? Or am I making that up as I go?
Re: random observation
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: August 04, 2003 09:12AM
You're making it up as you go ....
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
Re: random observation
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: August 04, 2003 09:29PM
must be, especially since Jasper and Mari are not married....
Re: random observation
Posted by: kaz (139.134.58.---)
Date: August 05, 2003 01:47AM
*ahem* Sorry. I'll shut up now.
PSD, stop dancing for joy. It's a scary look!
PSD, stop dancing for joy. It's a scary look!
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