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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:07 am
Post subject: 9 December - birthday information
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Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate melts in
the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem, Guardian of
Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
Firedrake R
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:21 am
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Roger Burton West wrote:
>Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
>the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate melts in
>the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem, Guardian of
>Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
<happy chitinous bounce and squeak>
have a carefully-gnawed wooden... well, we're not really quite sure what
it is but it's a pleasant thing to hold.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:50 am
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:23 pm
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On Dec 9, 2006, at 4:07 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
> the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate
> melts in
> the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem,
> Guardian of
> Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday Diem!
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:34 pm
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In <20061209102026.0381127694427086 DeleteThis @woodlice.net> the Woodlice wrote:
><happy chitinous bounce and squeak>
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>have a carefully-gnawed wooden... well, we're not really quite sure what
>it is but it's a pleasant thing to hold.
If it is a wooden shape that fits neatly into one's hand and is pleasant to
hold and fiddle with, then in *our* family it is called a Queeg.
There is a reason for the name, but I'll leave it to see if anyone else
might guess why we called them that.
Beetle
MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 2:34 pm
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In <20061209090745.832539225035486.TakeThisOut@firedrake.org> Firedrake R announced:
>Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
>the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate melts in
>the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem, Guardian of
>Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
Many happy returns, Diem, and I hope all your charges are behaving
themselves today at least.
Beetle
MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
collection of dog-legs and feet. Coffee mornings a speciality.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:13 pm
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In article <20061209143414.506159979690896 DeleteThis @firedrake.org>,
anon2765 DeleteThis @firedrake.org () wrote:
> If it is a wooden shape that fits neatly into one's hand and is
> pleasant to hold and fiddle with, then in *our* family it is called
> a Queeg.
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> There is a reason for the name, but I'll leave it to see if anyone
> else might guess why we called them that.
One feels the answer might be barbed. Unlike these birthday wishes.
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:16 pm
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> then in *our* family it is called a Queeg.
Not anything to do with the lad who handles the mechanical gubbins, and who
is forever running for the head?
Au Res.,
Paul (guessing that it is really a reference to the things Captain Queeg
used to fiddle with to calm himself in "The Caine Mutiny") >> Stay informed about: 9 December - birthday information |
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:47 pm
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--- Roger Burton West <roger.RemoveThis@nospam.firedrake.org>
wrote:
> Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball
> of Time rolls down
> the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars
> Bar of Fate melts in
> the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites...
> it's Diem, Guardian of
> Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
>
Happy Birthday, Diem. Drink at the Lundy to
celebrate?
Jackie
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:10 pm
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In article <20061209090745.832539225035486.DeleteThis@firedrake.org>,
Roger Burton West <roger.DeleteThis@nospam.firedrake.org> wrote:
>Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
>the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate melts in
>the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem, Guardian of
>Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
Happy birthday Deim, hope you had a wonderful time.
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:34 pm
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Roger Burton West announced:
> it's Diem, Guardian of Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday.
> Happy birthday!
<FX: loud scrubbing noises and tidal wave of foam>
Hippo Bathday, Diem!
Hope you got lots of nice presents and good chocolate.
(Email this moose if you didn't get chocolate.)
Cadbury.
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(Msg. 12) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:36 pm
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Beetle wrote:
>If it is a wooden shape that fits neatly into one's hand and is pleasant to
>hold and fiddle with, then in *our* family it is called a Queeg.
well we're assuming about these great big 'hand' things that human-type
people seem to have but it seems like a safe bet. it fits neatly under a
heap of more than fourteen woodlice.
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:56 pm
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In <20061209233322.00532358938744792 RemoveThis @woodlice.net> the Woodlice wrote:
>Beetle wrote:
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>>If it is a wooden shape that fits neatly into one's hand and is pleasant to
>>hold and fiddle with, then in *our* family it is called a Queeg.
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>well we're assuming about these great big 'hand' things that human-type
>people seem to have but it seems like a safe bet. it fits neatly under a
>heap of more than fourteen woodlice.
Sounds like a Queeg to me.
Am I going to want to know where you got the wood from?
Beetle
MA, Cartographer, Bombardier, Weather Witch and Village Storekeeper
Selling atonal apples, and amplified heat, and Pressed Rat's
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(Msg. 14) Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:39 am
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(Msg. 15) Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 1:48 pm
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In article <20061209102026.0381127694427086 DeleteThis @woodlice.net>,
woodlice DeleteThis @woodlice.net says...
> Roger Burton West wrote:
> >Today is the 9th of December. and as the golf ball of Time rolls down
> >the rabbit hole of Destiny and the half-eaten Mars Bar of Fate melts in
> >the forgotten pocket of my new cricket whites... it's Diem, Guardian of
> >Gargoyles and Woodlice's birthday. Happy birthday!
>
> <happy chitinous bounce and squeak>
>
> have a carefully-gnawed wooden... well, we're not really quite sure what
> it is but it's a pleasant thing to hold.
>
> The Woodlice
>
Thank you all.
I made my birthday cake this afternoon - chocolate cake with chocolate
in and chocolate on top and marzipan balls covered in chocolate to
decorate - and as I've got flu I'm going to spend the evening with the
cake and something suitably alcoholic to fend off the dratted virus.
--
Diem
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