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Dec 29th 2007, 4:44 pm

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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I'm sure Enid Blyton was on drugs when she wrote that

Dec 29th 2007, 5:08 pm

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Re: Fiction to reality.

Any of the Disc World series by Terry Pratchet, imagine a library where the assistant was an Orangutang who went OOK

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Dec 29th 2007, 6:41 pm

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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imagine a library where the assistant was an Orangutang who went OOK

No need to imagine. Just visit the book checkout at the University of Essex.

Dec 29th 2007, 6:54 pm

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No need to imagine. Just visit the book checkout at the University of Essex.

LOL, and i thought I'd been to some weird n wonderfull places in my time, how you doing RO?

Dec 30th 2007, 1:04 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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I'm sure Enid Blyton was on drugs when she wrote that

I think she was probably on drugs when she wrote most of her books - great entertainment though.

Dec 30th 2007, 2:07 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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I think she was probably on drugs when she wrote most of her books - great entertainment though.

Does anyone else worry about Big Ears and Noddy being a bit, well, before their time?

Dec 30th 2007, 2:11 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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Does anyone else worry about Big Ears and Noddy being a bit, well, before their time?

Yes, but Captain Pugwash was much more fun

Dec 30th 2007, 2:13 am

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Yes, but Captain Pugwash was much more fun

Whoa! Are you as old as I am?

Dec 30th 2007, 2:17 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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Whoa! Are you as old as I am?

Probably not. I was just fascinated by the urban myth surrounding Master Bates and Seaman Staines. Enough caps there for you?

Dec 30th 2007, 2:18 am

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Probably not. I was just fascinated by the urban myth surrounding Master Bates and Seaman Staines. Enough caps there for you?

More than enough of almost everything, thanks.

Dec 30th 2007, 2:20 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

Siemens Medical Engineering used to have offices in Staines, but they never answered the phone and gave the location.........

Dec 30th 2007, 2:23 am

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Siemens Medical Engineering used to have offices in Staines, but they never answered the phone and gave the location.........

Turn left at the Pugwash, apparently.

Dec 30th 2007, 2:39 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

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I'm sure Enid Blyton was on drugs when she wrote that

The Magic Roundabout!! Magic Roundabout website

Dec 30th 2007, 2:49 am

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The Magic Roundabout!! Magic Roundabout website

Boiiiingg!! Your link is a bit dodgy: I quote ..

Created by the French author Serge Danot in 1965, the Le Manège Enchanté (The Horse-gear Magic) had over 500 episodes made between 1963 and 1967.

Manège means "riding school" and the word has been taken over as the word for kiddies roundabouts (with horses then, but now with whatever), . "Horse-Gear Magic" is an 'orrible translation.

Goodnight, said Zebedee.

Dec 30th 2007, 2:50 am

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Re: Fiction to reality.

Being the romantic that I am I would love to be the heroin in "These Old Shades" by Georgette Heyer.

I would also like to be the Therapist in "Dibs in Search of Self " by Virginia M Axline

Or Bones in any of the Kathy Reichs books, preferrably in the TV series cos then I get to play with and Angel

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