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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 10:46 pm
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For the bewebbed:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,6121,1163009,00.html

For the unwebbed: (Guardian Review, Saturday 6th March)
"The Portable Door, by Tom Holt (Orbit, £6.99)
"It's sort of like The Office - only with added goblins and dragons", goes
the blurb. The latest from the humorous fantasy writer involves Paul
Carpenter, new employee of JW Wells & Co, discovering that matters are most
peculiarly awry in his sinister workplace (and beyond). Why has an Arthurian
sword-in-a-stone appeared in his bedroom? What about the four-pointed
claw-marks and red reptilian eyes he keeps snatching glimpses of? And just
how far can that nifty Acme Portable Door (rolls up into a tube; think
pocket-sized Narnia wardrobe) transport him when he flattens it out and
steps through it? Well, far enough to grab a latte in Milan or climb the
Great Wall of China in his lunch break, for starters. The humour is
endlessly self-effacing: "Paul had long since got used to the fact that he
was the most forgettable person in the world since What's-his-name." The
fantasy is given a corporate makeover, but this yarn about getting the girl
is ingenious enough. SA "
Au Res.,
Paul (just back from a memorabilia show in Wembley, where I met Claudia
Christian, LeVar Burton and a number of the Red Dwarf cast, and where one of
my crowns fell out.)


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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:08 pm
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"Paul B." <p.a.bines.RemoveThis@spambtinternettrap.com> wrote in
news:c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com:

<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font" target="_blank">http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font</a>>

Paul, this site won't work Sad

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:11 pm
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In article <c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com>,
"Paul B." <p.a.bines DeleteThis @spambtinternettrap.com> wrote:

<Snip happens>

 > Paul (just back from a memorabilia show in Wembley, where I met Claudia
 > Christian, LeVar Burton and a number of the Red Dwarf cast,

Hooray!

and where one of my crowns fell out.)

Oh bugger!

Hopefully it's under warranty?

Best,
Chris.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:25 pm
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"Belsambar" <wdebREMOVEathetREMOVEnet.nl> wrote in message
news:Xns94A4D7163585FwdebREMOVEathetREMOV@194.109.133.29...
 > "Paul B." <p.a.bines.TakeThisOut@spambtinternettrap.com> wrote in
 > news:c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com:
 >
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font" target="_blank">http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font</a>>
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 > Paul, this site won't work Sad

Works for me Smile

Yay Paul ..sounds like you had a good time until the crown

Melody

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:34 pm
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"Melody S-K" <Melody.RemoveThis@wibble.org> wrote in news:c2dc37$1sihff$1@ID-
6544.news.uni-berlin.de:

<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font" target="_blank">http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font</a>>

Weird, now it does work Confused

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:35 pm
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Belsambar wrote:
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 > "Paul B." <p.a.bines.RemoveThis@spambtinternettrap.com> wrote in
 > news:c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com:
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<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font" target="_blank">http://www.efbenson.co.uk/</font</a>>
 >
 > Paul, this site won't work Sad

This Moose has no problem with it, using an unfeasably ancient
copy of Netscape (Macintosh) - about 3.04, I think.

(Java, javascript _and_ cookies are disabled and the security
certificate expired about 2 years ago....)

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 11:52 pm
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The message <c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com>
from "Paul B." <p.a.bines.DeleteThis@spambtinternettrap.com> contains these words:


 > Paul (just back from a memorabilia show in Wembley, where I met Claudia
 > Christian, LeVar Burton and a number of the Red Dwarf cast, and where one of
 > my crowns fell out.)


"Till we cast our crowns before thee,
Lost in wonder, love and praise."

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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:07 pm
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In <2004030620525976639.TakeThisOut@zetnet.co.uk> the Squoire heartlessly wrote:

 >The message <c2d9pr$70v$1@sparta.btinternet.com>
 >from "Paul B." <p.a.bines.TakeThisOut@spambtinternettrap.com> contains these words:
  >> Paul (just back from a memorabilia show in Wembley, where I met Claudia
  >> Christian, LeVar Burton and a number of the Red Dwarf cast, and where
  >> one of my crowns fell out.)
 >
 > "Till we cast our crowns before thee,
 >Lost in wonder, love and praise."
 >
 > - Hymns A & M

Yes, but was there a glassy sea?

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