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    <description><![CDATA[A discussion of all things Thursday !
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    <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:09:23 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Neanderthal cloning soon?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,114964,114964#msg-114964</link>
      <author>afbach</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Just saw a quote:
George Church, genetics professor at Harvard, founder of the Personal Genome Project and author of the new book “Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves,” which explores how DNA can be programmed for new biological creations, such as seeds that grow into furniture — skipping the whole tree stage. And creating Neanderthal cells. “The @#$%&amp; human genome was supposed to arrive 50 years from now. It arrived this year. What if a @#$%&amp; Neanderthal or mammoth arrives 50 years ahead of time?” Church told Bloomberg Businessweek.

Or dodos. His other quote:
“At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable. At that point, people will already be choosing traits for their children. What politician will tell a parent that they can’t spend their hard-earned money on getting an extra 50 SAT points for their child as long as it’s safe?”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:09:23 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Book Cover Competition for Thursday Next</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,101966,113615#msg-113615</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Fortunately as those pies are 4 years old, Speckles is welcome to them. 

I think that you will find that Specles is well enough aware of the dangers of falling through a pie crust to be wary of eating all the pies.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:27:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Book Cover Competition for Thursday Next</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,101966,113606#msg-113606</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No, they are not.

Speckles has been back.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:21:27 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: thursday.any on else wish they were fictional, or just me?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,86563,105477#msg-105477</link>
      <author>gailfus</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I, too, would love to have a &quot;Person of Dubious Reality&quot; shirt.  I think Ashley is wonderful, though probably not the one for me as the literalism of his race would make me crazy after just a short time.  I'd be more likely to go for a Mr. Rochester or a Fitzwilliam Darcy.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:36:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Daphne Farquitt</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,99940,105248#msg-105248</link>
      <author>Vard66</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Or perhaps Anne Rice? That's the sort of thing I think of, if perhaps a little less obscenely obviously flowery literary pornography...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:16:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A slightly insane notion re: the celebrated Textual Sieve</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,104977,105017#msg-105017</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ Although our Mr, Fforde normally is reluctant to fill in the explanatory gaps he left intentionally, in this case I think he could make an exeption: The idea would be worth to be developed further in one of the Next books.

(Imagine Colonell Bradshaw struggling with the number of closing square brackets to programm his textual sieve in an attempt to contain a widow line virus...)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:37:02 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A slightly insane notion re: the celebrated Textual Sieve</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,104977,104983#msg-104983</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[.....and do not under any circumstances try to break a letter down into its constituent component. At least not without first preparing yourself a bunker built from lead-bound copies of the shorter OED or greater. Websters will not do for this task, although you could try it if you reinforce the Websters with Roget.

Welcome, by the way. pies are available in Nextian, and there is a possibility that there is still some traces of cake and chocolate. I have not seen the drinks trolley in a while, though, so you may want to bring your own.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:52:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>A slightly insane notion re: the celebrated Textual Sieve</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,104977,104977#msg-104977</link>
      <author>Cubist</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yet another annoying USAn here. I am only but recently introduced to TN -- FIRST AMONG SEQUELS, in specific -- and I rather suspect that TN is the sort of thing for which the phrase &quot;gloriously mad&quot; was invented...
Anywho: Having just finished FIRST AMONG SEQUELS, I had an idea about the Textual Sieve's nature/composition.
I think the Textual Sieve is, itself, made of [i]raw text.[/i] Everything in the BookWorld is made of text, of course, but the true, innate, &quot;texty-ness&quot; is generally not at all evident; veiled, one might say. That is to say, under normal circumstances, text becomes invisible when it's assembled into a person or chair or whatever else. So I think some unsung BookWorld genius managed to find a way to work with text *directly*, rather than through the intermediary of whatever stuff text assembles itself into, and the present-day Textual Sieve is a highly-advanced outgrowth of that pioneering work. Given that text is as fundamental to the BookWorld as atoms are to the Outland, I'd be willing to bet that &quot;raw text&quot; engineering can be every bit as powerful, and as dangerous, as nuclear engineering…
If it should ever be considered desirable to provide a visual depiction of the Textual Sieve, I recommend that said depiction be based on regex (regular expressions), a form of computer code which happens to be a compact, powerful, and notoriously cryptic means of describing patterns in text. If the Sieve is depicted as a set of regex listings, it would provide something for the punters to look at while, at the same time, preserving the Sieve's incomprehensible mysteriousnessitude.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:24:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: help!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,104838,104861#msg-104861</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Karl.

To answer your second query first: yes they are very good indeed. Not like the TN series but with a similar sense of quirkyness.

TN6 - Try looking [url=http://www.jasperfforde.com/subindex/tn6subindex.html]here[/url] but there is not much info yet.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:48:56 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>help!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,104838,104838#msg-104838</link>
      <author>Karl</author>
      <description><![CDATA[ive finished the 5 books of the thursday next series, and its doing my head in because i need the 6th one, can anyone tell me whats happening with that book? how long it will be? i never read books but jasper fforde has caught me and im obsessed. i was thinking of starting the nusery crimes series, is it any good?

thanks karl]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:00:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87793,104271#msg-104271</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes, it is a tradition, charter or something (with all due acknowledgements to the Order of the Golden Sprout). The first one to greet a newcomer usually does it and I tend to be online at different times to some of the others and so am first greeter more often than I would expect.

When I joined, I was offered the cyber refreshments and even though lots of those who were around then have now gone, I like to keep the tradition going. As I live in the Wigan area of the U.K. I extended the refreshments to include pies, both sweet and savoury.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:10:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87793,104267#msg-104267</link>
      <author>CheshireCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks Skidmarks....

From reading the other forums and threads, you appear to tell each and every newbie about the &quot;refreshments&quot;.....;-p]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:16:26 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87793,104221#msg-104221</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Cheshire Cat. you may want to look [url=http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/chalk-and-cheese.html]here [/url] for an explanation of chalk and cheese.

Meanwhile, you will find us far more active in Nextian Chat, where you will be greeted with pies, refreshments and possibly even a pointy stick!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:13:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87793,104217#msg-104217</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I had to spend month trying to explain the Martin Molloy quip: &quot;Orson Wells will take the title role for The Island of Doctor Moreau&quot;.  I think that the explaining was actually funnier than the gag!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:58:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Victor Analogy and Bowden Cable</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87793,104214#msg-104214</link>
      <author>CheshireCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[My personal name-pun faves are, I think, King and Nosmo. But is there a joke around Chalk and Cheese? For give me if I sound dense, but....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:02:45 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Costume Tips!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,102058,104213#msg-104213</link>
      <author>CheshireCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It would now be pointless to make any suggestions, as I guess your party is now over....

Are umbrellas a significant part of your life?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:56:53 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Granny Next?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,98637,104111#msg-104111</link>
      <author>Maira</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It's not 'To death' it's 'to sleep'!
Try Ivanhoe.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:25:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: thursday.any on else wish they were fictional, or just me?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,86563,104088#msg-104088</link>
      <author>Maira</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'll be fictional.
Do you know any books that need a panda?
Maybe I'll keep after Mrs. Bradshaw and not mention it...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:23:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Daphne Farquitt</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,99940,102243#msg-102243</link>
      <author>Hunchback</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Danielle Steel is mentioned in the last chapter included only in the American edition of &quot;The Well of Lost Plots.&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:53:54 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Book Cover Competition for Thursday Next</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,101966,102091#msg-102091</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Mariel,

I think that the book jackets are in the domain of the publisher (and I must admit to liking the &quot;second-hand&quot; style of the U.K. hardback dust covers).

Even if someone could come up with a professional-quality series of jackets, they would still need to convince the publisher of the need to change.

You will find a huge range of pies and perhaps some drinks and cakes in the Nextian Chat forum. Chocolate may be available.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:33:54 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Costume Tips!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,102058,102088#msg-102088</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Laparapluie, welcome to the party.

There is a thread to do with fancy dress costumes somewhere in the Nextian forum. To be honest, except when a new book is announced or launched, most of us hang out there. 

If you can't find the right thread or any interesting costume ideas - and the speed at which we go off-topic is amazing - just ask your question again in a new thread and someone is sure to be able to help. There is a huge Oz contingent.

When you get there, just help yourself to pies, cakes and drinks.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:26:51 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>laparapluie</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi first post here. I'm going to a dress up party in a few weeks and I'm hoping to go as Thursday. Now I'm hoping I can get a SpecOps 7 tshirt in time for it and put my hair in a ponytail. Now I'm just wondering if there is something else I could do or take along with me that might make me a bit more Thursday like. Any ideas? And has anyone had experiences with getting something from the site delivered to Australia. Does it take forever?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:04:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Book Cover Competition for Thursday Next</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,101966,101966#msg-101966</link>
      <author>Mariel</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I think the book covers for the books could be so much more imaginative, to match the content of the books. Quite frankly, I've been disappointed by the versions available in the states and the ones available in the UK are not much of an improvement. I would love to see a competition for new book covers for the series. 

Is anyone else interested?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:18:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: My First Next Request</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,94497,100209#msg-100209</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[But it is Christopher Robin who is for the chop]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: My First Next Request</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,94497,100182#msg-100182</link>
      <author>Planet Cool</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You guys are mean. Winnie the Pooh is a childhood nostalgia classic.

And from what I've gathered in [i]The Fourth Bear[/i] and [i]Well of Lost Plots[/i], Jasper likes him.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:32:43 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Daphne Farquitt</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,99940,100181#msg-100181</link>
      <author>Planet Cool</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I didn't think Daphne Farquitt was a real person, but I entirely understand the kind of person she is. One of those authors usually spotted on the bargain book bin near the supermarket check-out line, pretending to be popular, known by all but read by none. I don't know if she's supposed to be a parody of any real person... I don't know who Barbara Cartland is, though I am fleetingly familiar with Danielle Steel (yes, she's American) and her intoxicatingly female prose. I can understand why someone with an imagination like Jasper Fforde's could feel negatively about her. People like that (Farquitt / Steel / Cartland) are always so much in love with their own mythology.

And the same can be said for Christopher Paolini, while I'm at it. What a self-important little dork.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:30:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Daphne Farquitt</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,99940,99940#msg-99940</link>
      <author>Estelyn</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I've looked for a thread concerning the (our world) identity of Daphne Farquitt and haven't been able to find it.  I must say, my first thought when reading about her books was that she was a stand-in for Barbara Cartland.  What do you think?  A possible alternative would be Danielle Steel, though she's American, isn't she?...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:07:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: This is very wierd...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,87094,99902#msg-99902</link>
      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hey what's wrong with falling for a fictional character?? lol!
Though i wouldn't mind landen either!]]></description>
      <category>ThursdayNext</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:05:35 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Whats Thursday's Middle Name</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,5557,99901#msg-99901</link>
      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like both Eternally and Evening!!

i have a feeling that i am going to have to go onto google and look for a morse code translator!

Lol!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:02:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Heya!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?1,99851,99886#msg-99886</link>
      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Thanks SkidMarks!! it's nice to be included! i'll head over the Nextain chat now and see what it's like!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:17:56 +0200</pubDate>
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