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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Sorry, I didn't expect that to be so difficult to understand.

The quote* is meant to be an ironic commentary on the assumed german predelection to ask his superiors for permission - even in the most inappropriate situations. The main thing about platform tickets** is not that you have to pay for them, but that you need expressed admittance to a train station, even if you have no intention to travel anywhere. It is ridiculous to start with, and in case of a revolution, wich should be, by definition, an overthrow of all rules, it is the quintessence of failure.

The way I used the quote was slightly different: If you need to devote yourself at least for one year to the learning of marxism, what will you be thinking in the end: revolutionary thoughts, or will you parrot your teachers?

*   by Erich M&amp;uuml;hsam, a german anarchist from the early 20th century, I believe
** No, they are not used here any more.]]></description>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Unbound Element</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Is this one of those non-sequitars?  I think I've heard of them before...two things with no connection thrown together for no apparent good reason.
Is that what this is?

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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:38:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Nothing, but would you need them for a revolution?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:05:13 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Unbound Element</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Orpheus would be the one then.  Particularly interesting as Thursday then refrained from giving advice that would alter the story line, as in with the spotted leopard.

Sorry, what's wrong with platform tickets?

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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 03:14:27 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?5,74586,76393#msg-76393</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I can't remember in which context Das Kapital came up...but two things about it are certainly distinctive: First, it is as thick as a book can get (before being broken up into three tomes. Yes, it has already two.) Second, Marx' style of writing is as pompous as a german philosopher can get. (Heiddegger nonewithstanding, but his wording is more of the ridiculous variety...)

Well, and than there is the case of his readers, who tend to understand this book as a bible. I once came across a graffitti that obviously the writer meant to state the only conceivable way to the betterment of mankind:

&quot;Kapitalkurs als Grundlage Kritischer Theorie wiedereinsetzen!&quot;
(Reinstate Kapital [reading] course as Base of Critical Theory!)



There is a saying that germans will first buy platform tickets before partaking in a revolution.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:31:50 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Puck</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Which Greek warrior? I believe there were two of them: Prometheus showed up in Caversham Heights, and the guy on the phone (&quot;What was it I wasn't supposed to do again?&quot;) appears to be Orpheus.
(Orpheus was told that he could rescue his wife Eurydice from Hades - as long as he did not look back at her until they were both out of the underworld. He might have succeeded, but the path led through a grove of pine trees where the needles on the ground muffled Eurydice's footsteps. Thinking Hades had tricked him, Orpheus turned around - only to see Eurydice led back to the underworld. Cheerful story, that.)

Das Kapital is Karl Marx's critical analysis of capitalism. You can imagine what he has to say about it.

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 02:52:47 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>Unbound Element</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I laughed for a very long time when I realized what some of the jokes were hinting at.  Particularly the u's.  I suspect the numbers are rising again, because they've been slipping back into my writing.

I have to admit that I didn't understand who the Greek warrior was.  Anyone care to enlighten me?  Also, what exactly is Das Kapital about?

Having just read read Much Ado, Beatrice and Benedict partiularly appealed to me.

I also enjoyed describing the crossed lines to my Mom.  &quot;There are two russian women gossiping...it's about someone named Anna.&quot;

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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:06:05 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>Puck</author>
      <description><![CDATA[*Suddenly, a shot rang out!*

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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:29:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Shadow the Sheepdog. I was shaking with laughter and had tears rolling down my face. I'm starting to giggle just thinking about it.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:14:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[&quot;I've already forgotten.  What was it I wasn't supposed to do?&quot;
&quot;Sorry.  I wasn't listening.&quot;

*snickers*

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      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:34:56 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I think the Greek hero at the Norland Park offices was one of the best moments.
And the footnoterphone spam... (I get the real ones all the time)

/Mattias
(No connection to Mathias, the horse)]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2003 22:56:34 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>kaz</author>
      <description><![CDATA[LOVED the RAge Councelling.  Haven't read anything better in a long time

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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:03:59 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Rhea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I had an out loud to laugh, definitely.

Drove people insane with my laughing.

And all my friends are mad because -I- ordered a copy from the UK, and they're all waiting for the US release. Maybe if they're nice I'll let them read mine.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:44:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>splat21</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yes especially the last bit of it...

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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:59:21 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Sarah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[For me, the best bit (though admittedly it was hard to choose) had to be the rage management session in [i]Wuthering Heights[/i].  I think that's got to be the funniest passage I've read in a very long time!

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      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:21:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I only disturbed my parrot, Jester who was trying to sleep.  He looked particularly perplexed when I felt a sudden need to assure him that I actually preferred parrots to carrots.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:50:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[grand, wasn't it Magda?? I loved all those bits.  My poor hubby suffered from lack of sleep while I read, that's for sure! I kept waking him up with my laughing.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:24:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Footnoterphone Spam</title>
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      <author>Magda</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I loved the bits where Jasper poked fun at himself.  The holesmith's mention of daffodils blooming in summer, for example, and the use of the word Nakijima to test the mispeling virus.

And I love the bit about conserving 'u's by dropping them from words ending in 'our' in a localized area--particularly since I live in the area in question.

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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2003 06:20:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Skiffle</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I like the freeze-dried Plot Devices. Could do with a few of those myself. The current book's a bit stuck at the moment.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2003 23:53:57 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Jo</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I loved the spam and crossed wires - I now don't have to read Anna Karenina :)  I did start reading my mother's copy, but ended up looking for some lighter reading (I found Les Miserables...)

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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:18:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Andrea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Much of it would have made me laugh out loud if I had an out loud, I did a lot of sniggering though 

roll on my voice returning

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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:59:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Andrea</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Much of it would have made me laugh out loud if I had an out loud, I did a lot of sniggering though 

roll on my voice returning

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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2003 21:58:46 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Auntysassy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Never got all the way through Anna Karenina - knew how it started and how it ended - footnote spam filled in the middle!  Now I don't have to read it and get really depressed!

Once saw a TV listing for the film Anna Karenina in the Independent as follows:

&quot;Channel 4, 1.15pm film - Anna Karenina.  
                                         Vivien Leigh goes trainspotting.&quot;

Howled laughing and still raises a smile to think of it!

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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:40:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Oh yeah, that was soooo cool, even though i never really got crossed wires and i have received spam...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:23:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Loved the footnoterphone spam...totally cracked me up.  I loved the crossed wires with the Russian ladies though...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:12:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <author>Carla</author>
      <description><![CDATA[
Wasn't it just brilliant? Pure genius I say...

What other bits made you really laugh loud?
(there must have been more for me, but can't remember and i already packed my books for the move...)]]></description>
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