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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,114399#msg-114399</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[My friend Stamford suggested that I shared lodgings with his friend Holmes, but upon first meeting I discovered he was a drug addict who shot holes in the walls when bored, so I declined the opportunity. A Study in Scarlet]]></description>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,114396#msg-114396</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the bits of Mowgli still there from his morning meal.&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:56:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,114395#msg-114395</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter 'cos with all the ducking off from school I never learned to read or write.&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:33:48 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113760#msg-113760</link>
      <author>Auntysassy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[93% - happy with that.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:15:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113717#msg-113717</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:12:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113716#msg-113716</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, then put the project into the &quot;too hard&quot; basket, had a nice cuppa and a lie-down and moved on to other projects.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:12:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113713#msg-113713</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, took it of her and spent the rest of the afternoon absorbed in reading.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:42:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113702#msg-113702</link>
      <author>geg</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;Last night we went to Manderley again&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:30:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113686#msg-113686</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time there were three little pigs: and very delicious they were ,too.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113680#msg-113680</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Don't worry Bunyip, the quiz did have a limited range of topics. If you don't read that sort of stuff you're stuffed to begin with.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:42:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113659#msg-113659</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I must be a total ignoramus.

My score was 0%.

Thus bolstering the egos of all other persons who try the test.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:45:31 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113639#msg-113639</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I enjoyed the quiz and also got 90%.Good fun.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:38:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113631#msg-113631</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Back on topic 
It was brilliant and the slimy coves did gyrate and gambol in the waves (How do you turn the spellchecker off?) Jabberwocky]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:41:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113629#msg-113629</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[90% for me as well, and I'm amazed I completely failed to recognise the 2nd line of a favourite story. I even read it in magazine form before it was &quot;novelised&quot;.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:36:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113627#msg-113627</link>
      <author>CannibalRabbit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[90% for me - and the one that I got wrong I got on guess 4!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:38:12 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113620#msg-113620</link>
      <author>MistyCat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This thread seems to have remained on topic for quite a while. This is simply not good enough. 

Here, have a digression. And take the test. I can say with confidence that [b]my score will not be beaten.[/b]

[url=http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/new-beginnings-or-what-happened-to-my-novels-first-sentence/]New beginnings – or – What happened to my novel’s first sentence?[/url]

OK, you can probably all [b]equal[/b] my score.

Edited to give credit where credit is due.

I admire the elegance of the quiz coding on page at the above link.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:11:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113599#msg-113599</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;There's something odd about this calamari&quot;- Call of Cthulhu]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:44:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113594#msg-113594</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Then somebody said &quot;I'm going to start turning these switches off&quot;


  Is there anybody there said the traveller, knocking on the moonlit door

  Surprise, Surprise yelled many voices from within.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:30:42 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113590#msg-113590</link>
      <author>bunyip</author>
      <description><![CDATA[There was no beginning, and everywhere there was light.


....the Judeo/Christian religious tracts]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:37:58 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113588#msg-113588</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[No, that was legal advice, which is of course just the opposite.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:35:30 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113584#msg-113584</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[mycroftstwin Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
&gt; Eoink Wrote:
&gt; --------------------------------------------------
&gt; -----
&gt; &gt; I'm glad I cleared up that minor documentation
&gt; &gt; error thought Joseph K.- The Trial
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; My name's Joseph Karl. Exactly which minor bit of
&gt; documentation did I clear up?

PH, does that count as a confession?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:37:10 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113582#msg-113582</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You'll have to file a request for disclosure with the magistrate to find that out.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 10:30:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113581#msg-113581</link>
      <author>mycroftstwin</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Eoink Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
&gt; I'm glad I cleared up that minor documentation
&gt; error thought Joseph K.- The Trial


My name's Joseph Karl. Exactly which minor bit of documentation did I clear up?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:15:31 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113579#msg-113579</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Scrooge was recovering from giving succour to the poor all day when Marley Knocked at the door.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:23:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113573#msg-113573</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hello Dr Beeching - Thomas the Tank Engine]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:53:14 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113569#msg-113569</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Rhubarb, rhubarb burning bright

    In the forests of the night ( William Blake)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:34:30 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113553#msg-113553</link>
      <author>Eoink</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I'm glad I cleared up that minor documentation error thought Joseph K.- The Trial]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:52:51 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113551#msg-113551</link>
      <author>OB</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Squire Trelawney, Dr Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure I sland, can all take a running jump!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:30:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113522#msg-113522</link>
      <author>old boiler</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Moby Dick

   Call me fishmeal]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:32:31 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: new first lines</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,113502,113521#msg-113521</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Harry Potter - the complete series &quot;Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud that Harry showed so much promise.&quot;

or

The Hobbit - In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit and he stayed there.

or

The war of the Worlds - No-one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that we would finally eliminate the common cold.


[i](small typo corrected - others left to fester.)[/i]]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:33:50 +0200</pubDate>
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