This is really bothering me. Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Jim Henson and Mother Teresa were all alive and kicking in our 1988. So why aren't they in Thursday's??

Well, the point made in the book was about Pot and Amin living to a ripe old age, with the other two taken too early. So the fact that they're alive backs it up. As for Teresa and Henson, well Jasper can get away with a few lapses in his books, just blame it on his friends the French Revisionists. Colonel Next did say that Teresa was supposed to live to 107, so presumably something or someone snatched her away early.

And maybe there was violent objection to puppets in their world? Perhaps the Punch and Judy Liberation Army dispatched Henson for controlling his puppets with sticks?

Besides, it's an *alternate* reality, which means things don;t always match up with ours, and we shouldn;t be upset when they don;t.

When all goes wrong, just blame it on that irritating Lavoisier fellow....And am I the only one that noticed that all of the French members of the ChronoGuard are from the French Revolution......???/ (Marat, Lavoisier...I'm thinking we should expect M. Robspierre any century now....!)
Best Regards,
~Antonio Salieri~ (oh, and welcome again!)

I think I will have to blame the French Revisionists - otherwise I'll keep thinking that Jasper made... a mistake!!

Oh no, not that....anything but that! Please say it isn't so!
Best Regards,
~A.Salieri

OK, perhaps it's just a minor bloophole then!

Ok. One more time. Mother Teresa and Pol Pot being dead are NOT, i repeat NOT, mistakes or boopholes. This is alternate reality, which means the timeline is different. Things that happen in our timeline do not always happen in the book timeline. Best example of this: we have airplanes; they don't.
Second of all, Mr Ff DOES make mistakes. Hence the pages of upgrades to the books he has on his website.

Sorry to waste your precious time, Frog - my last post was meant as a joke in response to A.Salieri's comment!

And thanks for all the "alternate reality" posts - I probably should've asked a different question initially.

My quibble was:

For a person living in the real world in 2004, someone commenting about Mother Teresa dying young is a joke, because she was in her eighties when she died. However, as far as Thursday's comment about Mother Teresa in her world in 1988 is concerned, MT would've only been in her sixties at most when she died - ie quite young to die. So, I think Jasper made a mistake in choosing to make a "dying young" joke about Mother Teresa... funny in the real world in 2004, not particularly funny in 1988 in Thursday's world.

And if your explanation will be that she was born at a different time in that alternate reality, I don't like it (was it Thursday's father (? oops, can't remember) who ceased to exist due to a well timed knock on the door) - the MT of Thursday's reality had to be born at the same time as the MT in ours to still be Mother Teresa!

Anyway, it's not a major issue, I just wondered if anyone else was thrown by it like I was (being a real person reading a book in 2004, several years after the real Mother Teresa died) - and by the looks of it, the answer to that is "NO"!!

yes it was her father, instead her fathers sister was born. Rather confusing but it makes sence in TN world!

Yes, I known Mr. Ff makes mistakes; in fact, the "book upgrades" are some of the best pages on this site!! :)
Best Regards,
~Antonio Salieri~

And I think April Next is one of the only ones named for a month.

Unless there's others on that family tree that's somewhere on the site.



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I'm in grade 7. I'm studying Mother Teresa. She has some really good quotes.

Care to share some? I've forgotten most of what I ever knew about her.



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