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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
The deadly missile attack shortly to be launched by an ancient automatic defence system will result merely in the breakage of three coffee cups and a mousecage, the bruising of somebody's upper arm, and the untimely creation and sudden demise of a bowl of petunias and an innocent sperm whale.
Megachug: good one! (And it's true that by understanding exactly why the bowl of petunias said "Oh, no, not again" we get a better understanding of the universe.)
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Sebastian,who's in love with Olivia, gets mistaken for a boy named Cesario, who's really his long-lost twin sister Viola in disguise, who's in love with the duke. Everybody gets married.
(I had to read that 3 times before I realised what you were on about. V v clever)
The Famous Five will solve the mystery, which wasn't that mysterious in the first place, and if they'd just asked an adult they would have been told what was going on, but then the book would only have been 2 pages long, not that that's any great loss to the world.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Rarely? I'd say there's not one, just a series of plot holes....
Love the Goons though.
Arhur doesn't find the Holy Grail, although he does know the airspeed of an unladen swallow.
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland