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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Reading, reading...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115632,115742#msg-115742</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What is to come? A very good read.

My favourite Keith Roberts was 'Kitemaster' (Kiteworld? I forget. It was a long time ago.)

I remember 'Chalk Giants' and 'Grain Kings' but nothing else comes to mind.

I'm currently re-reading lots of my old favourite SF books. Last was 'Asimov's Mysteries'. Now I'm older, the solutions seem much less clever than on first reading.

SPOILER! (Not really)
Least believable was someone spending FOUR HOURS looking through a library book for a vital slip of paper, but not looking in the card pocket.

You young whippersnappers who don't know what a library book card pocket is can just... can just...  Get off my lawn!  And stop snapping those whips!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 02:28:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Recent films (movies)</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,114032,115741#msg-115741</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Still waiting for my first film of 2013... What will it be... Oh blast it's going to be 'Man of Steel'. It's going to be weird. Help, someone, help!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:28:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: peeves</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,114880,115740#msg-115740</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Rum and berries works, as long as you dump a bucket of icecream on top and then smoosh it up. Or is that defying the point? I've lost track.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:27:18 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Reading, reading...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115632,115739#msg-115739</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[About to dig into 'Pavane' by Keith Roberts. Who knows what is to come?!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:26:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Road to Wigan Pie</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,104068,115738#msg-115738</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Goodbye Ickey Mouse - a tale of rodent reduction techniques during WWII]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:17:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Resurrection of The Treehouse - Revenge of the Squirrels</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,85889,115737#msg-115737</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115736#msg-115736</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Is it just one thing, or is made up of lots of different things?&quot;

Rather difficult to answer yes/no to that, but a fair question.

Grammatically speaking, I'd feel comfortable saying &quot;some sprouts and some broccoli,&quot; or saying &quot;a sprout,&quot; but not &quot;a broccoli.&quot;

Speaking even more grammatically, it has the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, and is fungible.

00 Vegetable 
 01 Is it alive? No. 
 02 Is it edible? Yes. 
 03 Is it just one thing, or is made up of lots of different things? Yes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:38:09 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115735#msg-115735</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[00 Vegetable
01 Is it alive? No.
02 Is it edible? Yes.
03 Is it just one thing, or is made up of lots of different things?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:46:12 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115734#msg-115734</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[That rules out sprouts, then]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:12:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115733#msg-115733</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Edible? Are cute little fluffy bunnies edible?
Hell, yes.

 00 Vegetable
 01 Is it alive? No.
 02 Is it edible? Yes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 02:02:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115732#msg-115732</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Is it edible?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:59:10 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Road to Wigan Pie</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,104068,115731#msg-115731</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[A Study in Carlet


   Sherlock Holmes makes an implacable enemy of a deranged mechanic when he returns a hired car with dents.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:04:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Resurrection of The Treehouse - Revenge of the Squirrels</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,85889,115730#msg-115730</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[



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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:57:11 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Road to Wigan Pie</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,104068,115729#msg-115729</link>
      <author>ibborobb</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Miley's People ... an indepth statistical analysis on the teen sensation's fan club demographic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:46:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Define that word! immediately!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,99217,115728#msg-115728</link>
      <author>ibborobb</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hoodwink: A non-verbal communication between ne'er-do-wells to indicate the coast is clear.


Define: Gangster]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:43:25 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115727#msg-115727</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There's possibly a family resemblance to some of the Gordons I've known, but it's more like Marley. Even more like Marley, because Marley was dead, to begin with. Dead as a doornail. Scrooge knew he was dead?  Of course he did. How could it be otherwise?  Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years.  Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and sole mourner. 
Marley was dead. Yes, very like Marley

Executive summary:
01 Is it alive like Gordon? No.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:32:18 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115726#msg-115726</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Is it alive like Gordon?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:47:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115725#msg-115725</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I say, what an absolutely spiffing unicorn talky that was! I did so enjoy it.
It was well nice.

Moving on...
Has anyone been tracking the accoutrements of office?  I may still have the pawn stub for the sceptre, I think the crown is down the back of someone's couch, and I believe that some reprobate has made off with the cloak. Damn fine cloak it was, too, I remember last winter... Oh yes, I do remember. It's beside the Pink Cardboard Box of Maximum security in my winter woollies drawer, with my winter woolly drawers.  As you were.

Right.

00 Vegetable, with almost no resemblance to broccoli.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:16:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The Road to Wigan Pie</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,104068,115724#msg-115724</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The RHS Encyclopaedia of Plants and Lowers...how to attract large herbivores into your garden.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:08:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Define that word! immediately!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,99217,115723#msg-115723</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pretending to have more money than you actually own.


   Define hoodwink]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:04:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Reading, reading...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115632,115722#msg-115722</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Re-ploughing &quot;Game of Thrones&quot; and knowing why. But alarmed at the hundreds of characters I've only just become aware of.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:01:18 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Committee</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115347,115721#msg-115721</link>
      <author>EgonSpengler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[We could spend the time waiting for the next JFf book? Or reorganising the Treehouse stamp collection.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Reading, reading...</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115632,115720#msg-115720</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Ploughing through Edward Rutherfurd's Dublin - and wondering why, at least it's almost over!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:43:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: peeves</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,114880,115719#msg-115719</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[drink rum and berries, say no more]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:40:35 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Define that word! immediately!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,99217,115718#msg-115718</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Brevity - th&amp;#277; act of adding strang&amp;#277; marks to v&amp;#335;w&amp;#277;ls

Define accentuate]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:36:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Committee</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115347,115717#msg-115717</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Tables Ice Cream as a suitable substitute]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:24:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115716#msg-115716</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Told you it was an easy one.

Congratulations, you get this as a reward:

http://vimeo.com/58207848]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:08:55 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Committee</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,115347,115715#msg-115715</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry - popped out for custard and cream. Fortunately the Alterntive Pudding Accompaniment Committee are meeting next door, they were very keen for us to try the Goats Milk Creme Fraiche.

Did I miss anything?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:06:50 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,106946,115714#msg-115714</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Unicorn?]]></description>
      <category>Nextian Chat</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:03:54 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: peeves</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,114880,115713#msg-115713</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I just heard &quot;rum&quot; and then stopped listening.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:57:26 +0200</pubDate>
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