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RE: The rental unit......

Chihuahuas are super-bright and with company for each other shouldn't be too yappy. Fingers crossed

How weird are the responses we get to those ads? My favourite - having specifically said the room was one person ONLY - was from a young couple who said they were both very small and didn't take up much space ...

No CS bloggers??????

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I like super-subtle - Jane Austen was surprisingly good at those. Innocent wide eyes and then you notice the sword poking through the other side of your rib cage.

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Hoff?

Muc, your spellcheck is in the final stages

Sarcasm - Your Ambrose guy is pretty much credited as being up there at the top. Goes back to Roman times, though, some in the top 10 date right back to then. And I do think when it comes to one-liners, our very own Winston Churchill represents us nobly. (I was only first generation Saffer, Brit in all but place of birth, which is handy for this argument)

I'm not really smart enough to understand sarcasm. So often I'd rather take it at face value

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Hey Rob

It's not all about teleporting, though. You know CS. Blogs go a wee bit off piste sometimes ...

You and Zman are obviously on the same page regarding the dangers hey why not just write your story AS a story? As a book?

I'm a member in a couple SF writer groups, are you on Goodreads? One of the groups runs a micro story competition every month (winner of the last posts the topic for the next) and it's a terrific way to focus writing skills and bounce opinions off each other - let me know if you want the link / proposal for membership? You'd fit in instantly, most of the writers are US based, a few Europe types and from down under. Good fun.

The mind does boggle a bit at bloggers all getting together and arguing happily in person

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CC, agreed 100%. I wouldn't even insist it was perfected first.

Mind you, they could think exactly the same about me.

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Z, I think one of your most charming qualities is your whimsical sense of humour

No ads. Businesses will simply instead implant an urgent need for their products into our stream of consciousness as it shoots past. Simples.




Maybe, just maybe, it isn't that much of a disaster if I won't be able to teleport in my lifetime. I don't really want to go to Guantanamo Bay, it doesn't sound a whole lot of fun. Poor reviews.

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Ditto - I've been changing my room around, trying out different layouts, and I did NOT pick the right day for such hot work! Very nearly looking forward to rain

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Track, I'll have to rely on you to keep them on, uh, track with that one, it won't be in my lifetime.

Still. I'll happily settle just for it reaching the point where I can travel.

You know what, it's such a good cause, I'd volunteer to be a guinea pig. By then I'll be so decrepit at least I stand a chance of being remembered.

Picture it - Laika the first dog in space,

Biff, the first octogenarian single to be vaporized rushing hopefully off to meet some dodgy fella on the other side of the planet.

Fame.

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Got to stick with Molly on this one, Mack. I mean sure Chuck's a good guy, and someone you'd want to see turning into that dark alleyway when you'd been cornered by 10 nasties, but in his case the sword is mightier than the pen.

Ms Baby, I see your James or Seamus or whatever he wants to call himself, and raise you TWO Nobel prize winners - Nadine Gordimer and some guy called Coetzee. Or Coetzer.

Once we're talking prizewinners rather than genre, you understand.

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Yes fantasically quotable quotes. However I so hated the portrait of Dorian Gray I've not tried to read him again since.

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I do know and it's extremely interesting and I submitted HC Bosman as my entry

I prefer gentle irony, that's my failing. I'm under-educated in this genre.

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Eep my poor blog has become a numbers game

Thank you Mic and Luke I hope the hangover isn't a killer hehe

But I'm enjoying this sudden sideline into comparative literature and the gentle snide fencing - my country's authors are more sarcastic than yours -

We don't have many sarcastic SA writers, they tended to go to prison. Herman Charles Bosman did a lovely line in gentle humour as Oom Schalk Lourens but when I looked up his quotes I found this -

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He DID go to prison, but for murdering his stepbrother, not sarcasm, and he wrote a fair amount there in the book Cold Stone Jug. He didn't teleport anywhere. No-one I can find in SA literature is hauling me back to topic and -

biting satire - nope. Coming up empty.

RE: "WONDERING MAN"..("SAYING IT... LIKE IT IS")

I envy you being able to go, Nam. My father's ashes were scattered at sea and although my mother's ashes were in a Garden of Remembrance, vandals broke in soon afterwards and thought it hilarious to lever off all the plaques, get out all the urns, and smash them for fun. That was in another country anyway so I never did get to see the Garden before it was destroyed.

And as to your questions - no, of course it isn't wrong. No-one is truly dead until they are forgotten.

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And now I must go to bed - 02h35 here in bonny Scotland, and the sky has finally gone dark. Dawn will be breaking in about an hour.

(We pay for that in winter. Dark by 15h30 and dawn at 09h00 - if we're lucky)

I just looked in to see what was hopping in CS and golly gee whistickers, there was my blog bobbing at the top!















I believe that is now 73?

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Face value

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You are at your most misleading when you do that grin and say 'of course'

Still. I shall take it at first value so.





















(I'm not entirely sure of that so, tbh)

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We're talking about the male readers, right?

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Molly, special occasions? to set a mood? for work?

I'm fairly sure our male readers have suddenly come to attention

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I have no idea whether they go it in the end, or were simply being very polite and saying they got it. I eventually wildly invited them to tea, mimed how they would turn into atoms streaming across the world to join me, then go back home full of tea and cake in time to go to sleep.

One of these days I will learn to stick to the script - and the lesson plan.

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I do keep making one fatal error when I'm teaching, I casually say something without thinking and my pupils latch onto it instantly and ask what I'm talking about.

Today's word was teleport. Well, you can see how it happened. Being on my mind and all, and the topic of the class was extraordinary news items.

So there I was suddenly trying to explain teleporting in a combination of mime and the words they do know and wondering a bit anxiously whether it would end in the medium of dance.

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Ash, I'm betting Mic enjoyed the company as he laboured mightily over his task

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Oooh oooh oooh one year's free membership coming up. And then I have to go teach

Lubs ya all

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Top o' the mornin' to ye, did I get that right?

I prefer to ride too but not from the shanks stable - if God meant us to walk he wouldn't have domesticated horses

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Good finds, Kal, although they're a little discouraging about my chances of achieving my next trip to London within the decade

So my next trip to Stansted will be the slightly more uncomfortable dragged-by-wild-horses option.

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Hey, Ash, no hijack at all, I'd made a comment (oh about 100 comments back ) that the new Doctor was a guess-what - are you a fan too?

Thanks for posting the clip!

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Normally I try to reply to every comment but - Mic?

I think it would only be fair to share that year's free membership with you, hon. I can honestly say, hand on heart, I would never have got this far without you.

I really was trying to keep up, checking those references, and midnight came and went and the next thing I knew the sun was shining and I have a perfect impression of my keyboard on my cheek which will probably go away at some point ...

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Mic you are now beginning to scare me. Are you going through that thing frame by frame?

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Yeah, I can't even get you to agree to come help paint.

So that's not going to work, now, is it?

And I will be the only person there 100% of the time. Time will be of the essence

Waste not a minute ...

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good call


I need some videos on, hmm, brick laying, wiring, plumbing and perhaps tiling - any suggestions? There's a course I found but it cost a teeth-rattling £1300 for a week.

Ja well no fine

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Molly, there's a treat in there for you. I forget exactly where but he's a fan of the number 3