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PuzzledPineapple
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 352
I f only there were a way to reply to multiiple posts...
Hair-tearing-out-ness - there's a PM how very, very, very much likes Etta.
Aornis and memories - how would we know whether we escaped with our memories intact?
And I demand more photos and stuff too.
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:25 pm
flossj
Greenhorn
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 8
Thanks!! Thanks to all for the updates - and especially to that really detailed explanation with photos. I am indescribably jealous that I missed the day. While you were all gallivanting around Swindon, I was attending extremely dull meetings in Iran. *sigh* At least First Among Sequels arrived the day I left, so I got to read that while I was away. When's the next one out...?
Ah well, I wouldn't have done much to amend the gender imbalance - I too am female.
Well done SO-27 honorary detectives!
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:48 am
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
From the Fforde Forum:
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Anyone had an email yet?? I had one from June on Monday saying that winners would be informed by the end of this week.
No such mail for me. But maybe I'm simply too foreign to participate in the whole thing officially ...
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:46 pm
flossj
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Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 8
Anyone see this? Seems to be from June herself...
http://sf0.org/Mink/Ask-a-Dumb-Question/
Don't quite get the posting and am not sure why it was there, and I think most of us realised straight away that she wasn't real! But still. interesting.
Haven't heard anything yet about the competition itself - and didn't get an email.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:35 am
Etta
Boot
Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Posts: 25
How did you find that? Very strange.
I haven't heard anything about the competition either.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:13 am
chanticleer
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Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 12
Canzonett wrote:
From the Fforde Forum:
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Anyone had an email yet?? I had one from June on Monday saying that winners would be informed by the end of this week.
I posted that; I didn't think the prospect of Jasper memorabilia would be as hot a topic over here. The full email read:
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Hello Ben,
Did I say hello to you on Saturday? There were so many new people to meet! Were you there? If so, thank you for coming to help, we stopped him in the neck of time! I am going to write up what happened on my blog, but I'm afraid I don't have any pictures (apparently cameras need to be charged once in a while!) if you took any, could you send me some copies so my story will look more interesting to read? I should have time to write to you one more time before I have to go home to start my new work placement. (yay!)
Thank you for being so nice to me : )
June x
p.s.The competition winners will be announced by the end of the week.
Though that came on June 9th. I've emailed back and asked if there's been any headway, but I'm guessing that the real Fforde wants to read all the Scribblers to sort the wheat from the chaff before prizes are allocated.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:32 am
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
flossj wrote:
Don't quite get the posting and am not sure why it was there, and I think most of us realised straight away that she wasn't real! But still. interesting.
I actually asked her whether her Christian name would automatically change into July at the end of the month. Received no reply to that one ...
chanticleer, so did you take any photos?
http://www.flickr.com/groups/book-hunt/
Pur-lease???
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:42 am
chanticleer
Boot
Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 12
I'm already subscribed to the group! I did have my camera with me, but our group was ridiculously proactive - we managed to answer six phones, received seven digits, got further clues about the digits' meaning, went to the mobile library and the signing, whilst I was the one who phoned Thursday and held the radio. In the excitement, I didn't manage to take a single photo, which is a bit rubbish. I wish I'd taken details of the professional guy who was in the pub at the end, as he said he was taking photos for a college course (I think) and seemed to be doing a sterling job.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:50 am
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
Pity - but absolutely understandable.
What was it like answering the phones?
And by the way, what were your scribblers all about? Missing the great scribble-de-doo-fight-reading is probably what I regret most of all. I can post mine tonight (the text is safely stored on my hard drive at home) - it was about a dragon witnessing an ecological catastrophe.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:56 am
chanticleer
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Joined: 03 Jul 2007 Posts: 12
My lines were:
'Hang Riverbank and supper too!' I said; and
People began running about in all directions.
I decided to write a little Wodehouse-esque thing about a young lord of the manor being left in the care of a stuffy older type whilst his parents were away. It included the word 'popinjay' which pleased me greatly, though a forced pun about Dickens was probably a mistake. I won't post the whole thing through fear of embarassment (though I read most of it on the day itself).
Answering the phones was dead good fun; they gave a brief description of themselves and you had to guess who they were - restoring their memory - before they'd give you the clues for the digits. One of my teammates answered a phone with 'Footnoterphone?' only to be greeted with a commanding voice saying 'I WILL CONQUER YOU!' which made him visibly jump!
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:02 am
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
That must have been Alexander the Great ...
"Hang Riverbank and supper too" sounds indeed quite Wodehousian. More dynamic than mine, anyway. I certainly didn't have the nerve to do elaborate puns and allusions ...
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:10 am
chelec
Decorated
Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 156 Location: London
I'm trying to see if I can get a post game look at this, with information about how/what/why they did this. But only having fictional email addresses it may be difficult. Anyone got a real one?
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:04 pm
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
Well, mine won't help you since I couldn't participate in all the "real" parts of the game ... But here comes my tiebreaker, as promised (*runs away in major embarrassment* ):
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Pray, what was your father saying?--Nothing. (TRISTRAM SHANDY)
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Although a sharper reply tickled the tips of my tongues, I forced myself to remain silent, wrapped them around each other and tied them into a tight knot.
--Nothing, Auntie, really nothing.*
--Right-ho, dear.
I didn't have the heart to disturb her gentle reveries by repeating Dad's vicious outburst. She would witness his brutality soon enough.
No one but myself seemed to be aware of the fact that my father was about to cause an ecological disaster of unknown dimensions. Despite the possibly devastating consequences, his mind was set – and I had no chance to put him off his scheme that would alter our planet forever. He would wipe out an entire species.
Smiling sadly, I felt my lachrymal glands swelling with buckets of tears while I watched the tiny, helpless creatures crawling around on their mound. They were about to become extinct. Admittedly, they had often been a pest. But I would miss their melodic squeals, their shiny armours and the funny noise they made when one stepped on them.
With one nonchalant fiery breath, Dad swept them away – the last two knights vanished into ashes. The Age of Dragons began. I haven't stopped crying since then.
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How sad it is! (DORIAN GRAY)
* Don't ask me how dragons manage to talk with their tongues in a knot. They simply can and do.
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:51 am
Canzonett
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Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich
Quiz winners have been announced - congratulations to all you lucky guys!
Another task is waiting for us, however: According to http://www.unique-thinking.com/library/scribwinners.html , a copy of The Great Samuel Pepys Fffiasco is available for download from the quiz site:
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So tame in fact that a copy of it is now available here for you to download, although as a precaution we have locked it away for safe keeping. There is a key to this 'safe' hidden on this website.
Anyone already found that key?
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:06 am
myf
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Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 917 Location: Hiding from squirrels
Amy has uploaded a recording of the stuff that came over the radio: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Yoy4MlVH_So
And anyone find the key?
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:34 pm
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