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[wellinghall]

I am going stir crazy stuck at work, and I need human interaction! Please - a comment, a message, answer a quiz, take part in a poll or a meme, ask me a question - anything!

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[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

£$%&*Q£$*%&"£$(%*"Q£$%&( England batsmen!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Also, do you have a favourite Tolkien quote?

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

Fred: "If you had #10 in your pocket, what would you do?"
George: "Wonder whose trousers I had on".

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

GRR!! *&%^&£YED£ "batsmen"!!!

(There's an Asterix cartoon where Getafix the druid ?drops a sickle on his toe, and then says something like, "*&^%". There's a footnote to this: "Gaulish swearwords, translated as $%^&".)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

:-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's not a major point, but I do like it in the siege of Minas Tirith when "At last Denethor released the sortie."

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Gaulish swearwords, translated as $%^&

Brilliant. I must re-read Asterix - I'm sure there are loads of jokes I missed.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It generally repays a careful re-reading :-)

A chess puzzle

[emperor]

How long can Black evade mate in the following figure? [Black to move]

Re: A chess puzzle

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

At a first approximation, somewhere between 0 and infinity moves. A second approximation may follow.

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

Noticing that you have a Pratchett tag, do you have a favourite Discworld book, book focus, or character?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I do like the Guards books, and the Unseen University ones. Possibly The Fifth Elephant?

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

First woman: "How's your husband?"
Second woman: "OK, I suppose. He works so hard that I only see him for an hour each day".
First woman: "Oh, I am sorry for you".
Second woman: "Don't be, the hour soon passes".

[bookwormsarah.livejournal.com]

I think the Guards books are pretty high on my list too, along with Susan books. And the Witches... My favourite book is probably Monstrous Regiment.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I confess I didn't get on too well with MR, but I have only read it once. Time for a second reading, I think.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

:-)

[segh.livejournal.com]

Give a sentence containing 11 consecutive "had"s - or have I already asked you that one?
My brain is frozen.
So are my fingers, which is worrying,as I'm playing lots of things in public on Sunday and Monday and none of them is perfect.

[segh.livejournal.com]

I disliked it - that and Small Gods are the only ones I have, I think.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

SG was my first Discworld.

Have you read many of the others, or just these two?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You haven't, but I have seen it before.

John, where Ted had had, "had", had had, "had had." "Had had," had had the examiners' approval.

*counts* Yes, eleven.

*offers warm gloves and mug of tea*

[segh.livejournal.com]

I have read all the others, most of them many times. I love Lords and Ladies, Reaper Man and Carpe Jugulum to bits, and am very fond of most of them. I haven't read Unseen Academicals yet, because my editor wouldn't let me review it and I don't buy hardbacks - though I may be tempted past endurance when "Enchanted Glass" comes out.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of EG ... tell more?

[segh.livejournal.com]

Precisely!
Thank you - I saw Peter playing in hobo gloves this morning and think I should maybe get some.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

What are "hobo gloves"?

[segh.livejournal.com]

Diana Wynne Jones' latest. After many years of spinal problems due to a car accident and then an operation for cancer, she was near to giving up writing, but changed her mind - this is her comeback novel.
http://www.lauracecil.co.uk/pages/Clients/Clients_Fiction/DWJ/DWJ_EnchantedGlass.html