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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 24, 2006 9:02:57 GMT
Terry never wrote the full song, this is as close as you can get www.lspace.org/books/apf/song.html there is a lot of swearing in it if you are of a sensitive disposition dont go there! |
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Post by piggingardener on Aug 24, 2006 9:15:36 GMT
Thank you so much Sweetleaf for enlightening me - I won't ask how you came across this site - ahem. ;D ;D ;D
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 24, 2006 10:47:44 GMT
Theres lots of links in those pages other than the filthy songs, amazing how much TP references the works of Shakespeare.... I got some of them before this, but there are so many more that I didnt get!    ;D |
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Post by obelixx on Aug 24, 2006 15:57:43 GMT
I remember Dark They Were... Used to work in an office in Soho Square. Has anyone else spotted that Star Trek is being shown on Saturdays after the cookery? First the Kirk idiot and then Picard's mob. I can't cope with Kirk any more and I've only seen 3 of the next Generation but one was new to me. Good eh?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 18:13:57 GMT
I remember Dark They Were... Used to work in an office in Soho Square. Has anyone else spotted that Star Trek is being shown on Saturdays after the cookery? First the Kirk idiot and then Picard's mob. I can't cope with Kirk any more and I've only seen 3 of the next Generation but one was new to me. Good eh? This was actually Bram's third shop, he started off in Tottenham Court Road, then moved to Windmill Street (pub at the top with pictures of the Fantasic Four all over the windows ;D), the onto Berwick Street. I loved that shop. Yes I have noticed Startrek, and know what you mean about Kirks lot - was good in it's day though. A couple of months ago I happened to catch 'Voyager' with the dreadful Kate 'I want to be Katherine Hepburn' Milligrew - I can't belive she is even more wooden than I remembered ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2006 20:07:33 GMT
I know what you mean about Voyager...BUT at least they had Seven of Nine... Star Trek had Mr Spock...Generations had Data....Deep Space Nine had Odo. What about the last one? 'Enterprize' did Cap'n Archer have a pet alien?...never really got into that last one. Did you like the films? I only really liked 'First Contact'...although that one with William Shatner along with Patrick Stewart in it made me cry (OH threatened to leave the cinema as I was howling so loudly when Captain Kirk got killed AGAIN!)  |
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Post by Margi on Aug 24, 2006 20:07:35 GMT
Is it me, or is it scary how similar our tastes are on a lot of things?! (or should that be 'thingys' !? I LOL'd very much when I read you hadn't really tried to call him Moorthingy!!!)
I love Narnia and have THREE boxsets of it, love Tolkein (my house is called Rivendell in his honour), love TP (I lent my godmother Wyrd Sisters to start her off and she's never looked back, and my favourite is Going Postal - just wonderful!), liked Angels & Demons best of the Dan Brown stable, didn't think Labyrinth was up to as much as I'd hoped, love Harry Potter (especially Ron, but that's down to an old boyfriend, I think!), have almost a complete set of Asimov, liked the first His Dark Materials best, and adore all Star Trek (especially Next Gen and Enterprise) except The Shatner Show...
Can I throw another name into the mix for those who don't know him, or as a happy memory for those who do... Stephen Lawhead!
Margi x
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2006 20:26:36 GMT
oooo OO OO 'Taliesin' ? Yep...like him too It's getting a bit spooky now ay wot?  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 20:32:13 GMT
I know what you mean about Voyager...BUT at least they had Seven of Nine... Star Trek had Mr Spock...Generations had Data....Deep Space Nine had Odo. What about the last one? 'Enterprize' did Cap'n Archer have a pet alien?...never really got into that last one. Did you like the films? I only really liked 'First Contact'...although that one with William Shatner along with Patrick Stewart in it made me cry (OH threatened to leave the cinema as I was howling so loudly when Captain Kirk got killed AGAIN!) What are you like ;D Enterprise had the totally delicious James Marsters, worth watching for him alone <drool smilie> |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 20:40:12 GMT
Larry Niven - Ringworld series.
Anne Rice - The Mayfair Witches.
Roger Zelany - Amber Series
I could go on............................
Has anyone read State of Fear by Michael Crichton - very good thought provoking read.
Just now I am re-reading Beauty by Sheri S Tepper, sort of Sleeping Beauty meets the Wandering Jew -superb.
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2006 20:41:11 GMT
OOh Dee I just noticed...you've been promoted!
Congratulations...do you get the key to the second best washroom or anything?
<doffs cap smiley>
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 24, 2006 20:45:05 GMT
YES! I read that Michael Crichton (is that the one with the essays in the back!?)...I also remember buying 'Jurassic Park' when it first came out in hardback...I was studying genetics as part of my course at the time and 'hmphed' my way through most of it...but loooooooved it all the same. (far superior to his subsequent books in that series)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 21:00:41 GMT
OOh Dee I just noticed...you've been promoted! Congratulations...do you get the key to the second best washroom or anything? <doffs cap smiley> Nah not even the previously promised cake  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2006 21:02:25 GMT
YES! I read that Michael Crichton (is that the one with the essays in the back!?)...I also remember buying 'Jurassic Park' when it first came out in hardback...I was studying genetics as part of my course at the time and 'hmphed' my way through most of it...but loooooooved it all the same. (far superior to his subsequent books in that series) Armageddon is on BBC - load of 'Bruce Willis saves the world, again tosh, but I still need the box of tissues  |
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 25, 2006 8:47:28 GMT
I missed it!...darn. (Armageddon)
BTW...the most comforting book I ever read HAS to be 'The Wind In The Willows' (Kenneth Graham)..I still have the paperback that my ma and pa bought me when I was 10. (Obviously it's falling to bits just like me)..it cost 3 shillings and sixpence...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2006 18:54:23 GMT
The books that do it for me are The Little Gray Men , and the one whoes title makes my OH howl with laughter, The Little Gray Men Go Down The Bright Stream, by'BB', had them years and love them to bits.
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Post by Dutchy on Aug 28, 2006 15:40:33 GMT
Ah yes Terry Pratchett. My OH doesn't even look up from the newspaper when I burst out laughing. He just says OK could you please go and read mister Pratchetts prose elsewhere?
I do love his work Just got Darwins Watch and am in happy expectance of Thud. I try to read things in paperback so as not to burst the piggybank.
Did anyone read Neil Gaimans work he is good too.
Dutchy
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Aug 28, 2006 16:47:10 GMT
One of my favourite TP books was written with Niel Gaimen I think...'Good Omens'...absolutely brilliant...laughed so much I couldn't breathe in.....
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Post by Dutchy on Aug 28, 2006 17:12:59 GMT
Yes it was Cheery and one that I've reread more than once.
( Love the hellhound turned rat chasing mix'nmatch dog and the book helped me understand why holy water is kept in strong containers )
Dutchy
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