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From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 24 Jun 2010 12:48 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> typed >On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:16:05 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel ><wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > >>I was also hopelessly addicted to Biggles and the Jennings books. > >So was I. > >But at least I grew out of them... <G> Cnut. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: Pip Luscher on 24 Jun 2010 15:05 On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:54:09 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >Pip Luscher <pluscher(a)live.invalid.co.uk> wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:12:34 +0100, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >> >> >>Three Men in a Boat. > > > > >> >I quite liked it. A period piece, obviously, but one of the best >opening >> >scenes of any book, ever. > >> I liked it. It's been so long that I can't recall the opening scene > >The doctor's prescription. Oh, yes, I remember that. I just didn't realize it was that early on in the book. In fact I was thinking about it only a few days ago when I replied to one of darsy's posts: I was wittering on about reading symptoms from a Wiki link. -- -Pip
From: Andy Bonwick on 24 Jun 2010 15:40 On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:44:34 +0100, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:16:05 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel ><wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> wrote: > >>I was also hopelessly addicted to Biggles and the Jennings books. > >So was I. > >But at least I grew out of them... Your loss.
From: petrolcan on 24 Jun 2010 17:17 In article <MwC3HzzFT4IMJAAh(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk>, Wicked Uncle Nigel says... > > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy > <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> typed > >On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:13:31 +0100, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk > >(The Older Gentleman) wrote: > > > > > >>Narnia stories, yes, absolutely > > > >Christian propaganda. > > There's a funny thing. I *loved* the Narnia stories when I was a kid, > but I *never* got the christian references. Probably because I was > (thank god!) raised in an essentially atheist household. I never got the christian references either but then again I don't think god intended me to be a catholic.
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 24 Jun 2010 17:12
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, davethedave <davedfoster(a)gmail.com> typed >On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:16:05 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote: > >> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy >> <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> typed >>>On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:13:31 +0100, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The >>>Older Gentleman) wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Narnia stories, yes, absolutely >>> >>>Christian propaganda. >> >> There's a funny thing. I *loved* the Narnia stories when I was a kid, >> but I *never* got the christian references. > >Christian references? Apparently it's rammed full of Christian allegory. <whooooosh> -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion |