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    <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:24:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,107152#msg-107152</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Form the wagons into a circle. 

At least jeffturner's sex change let him/her remember the spam link this time.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:24:15 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,107144#msg-107144</link>
      <author>daisywright</author>
      <description><![CDATA[you have ask about something interesting, you will get the require thing on web.]]></description>
      <category>Something Rotten</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:03:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Time spent doing renaissance</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,106338,106340#msg-106340</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi dascandy. Most of us can be found in Nextian chat. Hopefully Mr. Fforde or one of the regulars can answer your question. (I'm just the first one to see your post and cannot remember the context of the quote, so won't attempt an answer,)

Cyber cakes, drinks and pies are all waiting for you.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:11:53 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Time spent doing renaissance</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,106338,106338#msg-106338</link>
      <author>dascandy</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Is that correct &amp; intentional? Didn't you mean &quot;reconnaissance&quot; ? It's at the bottom of page 56 UK edition...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:36:30 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,104215#msg-104215</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Boring name he has picked. 
Should we ask him to change his signature?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:26:49 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,104194#msg-104194</link>
      <author>robcraine</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hah. He forgot the actual spam first time.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:36:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,104141#msg-104141</link>
      <author>jeffturner</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well now what to say]]></description>
      <category>Something Rotten</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:23:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Something Rotten.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,78495,104140#msg-104140</link>
      <author>jeffturner</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well now what to say]]></description>
      <category>Something Rotten</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:23:14 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>sorry- wrong here</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,102989,102989#msg-102989</link>
      <author>PrinzHilde</author>
      <description><![CDATA[This post is completely in the wrong part of the fforum...moved it]]></description>
      <category>Something Rotten</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:40:29 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Who will play Thursday??!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,77368,102807#msg-102807</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi billiam,

it can be fun making up fantasy cast lists, can't it?
As well as cyber food &amp; drink you can join in lots of other pointless games in Nextian Chat. We tend to hang out there except when there is a new book out. I think it is so that Mr Fforde can ensure that our damage is limited to a small area, but I may be wrong.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:02:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Who will play Thursday??!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,77368,102793#msg-102793</link>
      <author>billiam</author>
      <description><![CDATA[After listening to the Ffirst three installments on tape...I surmised that the only way to possibly pull off a visual adaptation of The Thursday Next series would be to have it animated.

I do agree with someone above who suggested John Cleese as Bradshaw. I also picture Michael Palin as Adrian Lush.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:25:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The name of the book that puts Granny Next to sleep</title>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[and welcome to the madhouse, GenericInTraining! Pies are available in Nextian]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:01:46 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: The name of the book that puts Granny Next to sleep</title>
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      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[You need an &quot;e&quot; at the end (I think the US edition spells it without the &quot;e&quot;).]]></description>
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      <title>The name of the book that puts Granny Next to sleep</title>
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      <author>GenericInTraining</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi all, just a regular day feeling like a complete idiot. I'm trying to log into the special features for &quot;Something Rotten&quot; and I could've sworn that the name of the book that puts Granny Next to sleep is &quot;Faerie Queen&quot;. Am I wrong? 
Thanks for your help,
--Generic]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:03:47 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A horse named Erich for dummies</title>
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      <author>Mateo</author>
      <description><![CDATA[OK, that helps a lot, yes. I thought it had something with Tolkien's &quot;Prancing Poney&quot; but this answer is far better.

Thanks a lot !]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:30:33 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A horse named Erich for dummies</title>
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      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi Mateo. &quot;The White Horse&quot; is a common pub name in the U.K. Does this help?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:43:58 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>A horse named Erich for dummies</title>
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      <author>Mateo</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hi all.

I've just re-read &quot;Something Rotten&quot; and I discovered the &quot;books for non-brit&quot; section on jasperfforde.com, with the entire joke Bismarck tells Thursday's mum.
Here it is :

&quot;A white horse walks into a pub. Before he can order a pint, the landlord says 'We named our pub after you!&quot;. &quot;What?&quot; says the horse. &quot;Erich?&quot;



... SO, maybe it's because I'm dim-witted, or French, or both (pleonasm), but I simply didn't get it. Could someone please lighten-up my Swedish-cheese-shaped-mind ? In exchange, I can give you another pretty lame joke.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:23:53 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: My Yorrick Kaine Deduction (spoiler)</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,96287,96294#msg-96294</link>
      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Hmmm…that would have been a really interesting direction for the story to go! I confess I am not strong enough in my knowledge of classic literature to catch the little details that would give it away (if Jasper had intended Yorrick to be an existing fictional character in the first place). However, I reasoned that a character with a name like Yorrick Kaine couldn't possibly be a [i]minor[/i] character in an existing classic, since the name is too full of symbolism to be a minor character in most novels. I also knew that Jasper likes to juxtapose first and last names from different sources, so it sounded like a name he would make up. Yorrick seemed to be a pretty obvious reference to Hamlet, and I was half expecting an &quot;alas, poor Yorrick&quot; to show up somewhere. Kaine, of course, sounds like Cain, an excellent name for a meta-literary villain, not to mention all the other variants on that name that appear throughout literature. So I was pretty confident the character had been made up by Jasper, and if not I knew that my complete lack of knowledge of Danish literature (or literature about Danes, apart from Hamlet) would keep me from guessing it even if he was an existing character.

By the way, we're a lot more active over in the Nextian Chat section--in fact, these novel-specific sections tend to sort of die off a few months after the novel is published. So anyway, come on over to Nextian Chat and introduce yourself, but beware of the pie!]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:00:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: What's the name of Chapter 13?</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,77412,96288#msg-96288</link>
      <author>Planet Cool</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I have the feeling that there will eventually be a Fforde book composed entirely of the ch. 13's from all his other books.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:18:04 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>My Yorrick Kaine Deduction (spoiler)</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,96287,96287#msg-96287</link>
      <author>Planet Cool</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Even though I really enjoy all of the Thursday Next series, I have to say I was a little disappointed when I read about Yorrick Kaine's true identity. Ever since I read that he was a runaway fictional character in LIAGB, I'd been trying to put the clues together and figure out which [I]famous literary character[/I] he was. After all there was to him, it was too bad to see that he was from a book none of us readers could have known about.

Here's what I had put together (follow me on this, you guys): Yorrick was a fictional character even though he didn't appear in any of the books in the Great Library; this made me think that he was referenced to but did not actually, you know, show up in the story. Then he seemed interested in altering the past and even the facts (as in, the Volvo incident) to make Denmark look like a longstanding enemy. He's running for a position of absolute power and, with the Ovinator (of course, we didn't know it at that point) is somehow able to make hundreds of people buy into an obviously evil and oppressive policy.

And, it just so happened that while I was reading SR I was also reading another book, as well, and I couldn't help but notice an absolutely remarkable similarity between a major element in [I]that[/I] book and Yorrick in [I]Thursday[/I]. I put all those clues I mentioned together and deduced: ...that Yorrick Kaine was Big Brother from Orwell's [I]1984[/I].

&quot;It's so obvious!&quot; I cried out in glee. &quot;[U]Everything[/U] matches up! I'm a freakin' genius!&quot; But alas, it was not to be.

Then I read in the main site that Mr. Fforde had originally intended to make Yorrick Acheron's son. I really wish he'd gone with that plotline, because it would have given the series greater continuity and depth (not that it's in need of any, but it would've been nice) and wouldn't give off the impression that Yorrick is someone who's identity as a famous literary character you're expected to figure out. I suppose there was a reason, though; I read it, but I can't remember what it was. Anyway, did anyone else go through an episode like this? Who'd you guys think Yorrick Kaine was before reading the truth?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:14:38 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Nextian Number Theory question/ er theory.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,86141,89551#msg-89551</link>
      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[More precisely, putting in any question that has the answer 42 would give &quot;a suffusion of yellow&quot;.

And gosh, I don't remember that from either Mostly Harmless or the Reason program from Dirk Gently (though I do remember the program that turned any string of data into music). I'm gonna have to reread all of those.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:51:10 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Nextian Number Theory question/ er theory.</title>
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      <author>robcraine</author>
      <description><![CDATA[And putting 42 into Dirk Gently's calculator would give the answer &quot;a suffusion of yellow.&quot; I don't know if that's relevent.

Rob]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:25:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Nextian Number Theory question/ er theory.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,86141,89523#msg-89523</link>
      <author>SkidMarks</author>
      <description><![CDATA[In Dirk Gently, there was a program called &quot;Reason&quot; which allowed you to fill in the  desired result in a spreadsheet and it would then allocate values to give you the question you needed to ask so that you could be certain to get the answer you wanted.

We had something similar to fill in timesheets.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:12:05 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Nextian Number Theory question/ er theory.</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,86141,89513#msg-89513</link>
      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia:

At the end of Mostly Harmless, which is the last of the series of novels, there is a final reference to the number 42. As Arthur and Ford are dropped off at club Beta (owned by Stavro Müller), Ford shouts at the cabby to stop &quot;just there, number forty-two … Right here!&quot; The entire Earth (in all dimensions, not just those in which it was demolished by the Vogons), is destroyed immediately after this final reference, which could lead to the Ultimate Question being, &quot;Where does it all end?&quot;]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:10:44 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Vanity publishing - outside the BookWorld? (mild spoiler)</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,89210,89212#msg-89212</link>
      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[First Among Sequels explains it a little better.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:26:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Vanity publishing - outside the BookWorld? (mild spoiler)</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Very quick question, this. 

Re-reading all the Next books in preparation for 'First Among Sequels,' I read 'Something Rotten' a little closer than I have done before. As such, the subject of Yorrick Kaine's origins became a bit more of an issue.

If Kaine came from a self-published Farquitt book which is outside of the Cat's knowledge, where are self-published books created? The Great Library is meant to hold every book and story ever thought of and supposedly every one of these stories are manufactured in the Well. But if a novel is published outside of the main Outlander publishing houses it seems to be excluded entirely. Does this mean that there's a parallel Library full of utter dross somewhere?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: Non-Linear Fforde Reading?!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,84761,86899#msg-86899</link>
      <author>RookeeAlding</author>
      <description><![CDATA[for chronoguard...a melting clock...]]></description>
      <category>Something Rotten</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 02:05:10 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: dodo lovers mobilize!!!!</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[thats true.of course, i made this one before i knew that so....]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 20:03:41 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: dodo lovers mobilize!!!!</title>
      <link>http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?6,86537,86860#msg-86860</link>
      <author>MuseSusan</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Actually, the problem is that most of the action goes on in the [url=http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/list.php?4]Nextian Chat[/url] section of the forum. There are only a few of us who check out the other sections on a regular basis. It's a nice idea to have separate sections for the individual books, but in practice most threads go off on so many tangents that it makes more sense just to keep them in Nextian Chat.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 22:21:37 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: dodo lovers mobilize!!!!</title>
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      <author>Anonymous User</author>
      <description><![CDATA[this forum sucks.we should get off of it.

any suggestions?]]></description>
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