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poohcarrot

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Sep 13, 2009
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NOT The land of the risen Son!!
#82
Jan Van Quirm said:
poohcarrot said:
I'm not faffing about with a link :rolleyes: ).
I knew there was a reason why I mentioned old and feeble :sleeping-drool:
Sheesh! :rolleyes: Can't win, can I? :laugh:

I could have pooh-poohed your original suggestion and said that as the stories were all together in numerical order, I shouldn't have to give a link or say what numbers had just been added, assuming that everyone could remember which stories they'd already read and which ones they hadn't. But I didn't. If I had you'd only have called me snarky (again! :laugh: ).

Instead, I commend your suggestion and for that I get called "old and feeble!" :eek: :laugh:

Wimmin! Huh! :rolleyes: Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em! :dance:
 

stripy_tie

Lance-Corporal
Oct 21, 2011
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Guernsey, Land of Sea and Granite
#83
I think I've got something for you Pooh, it's going to need a fair bit of tinkering though. I just can't get it to flow properly. In any case it'll be a nice guilt free distraction from a problematic chapter I'm working on.

I might even get into the habit of doing these drabbles, they're like sudoku for writers.
 

poohcarrot

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Sep 13, 2009
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#84
stripy_tie said:
I think I've got something for you Pooh, it's going to need a fair bit of tinkering though. I just can't get it to flow properly. In any case it'll be a nice guilt free distraction from a problematic chapter I'm working on.

I might even get into the habit of doing these drabbles, they're like sudoku for writers.
I love killer sudoku especially designing my own, somewhere on this forum there's a 12 sudoku's of Xmas I posted for Batty.

As for tinkering and being a writer, I'm not the latter, so don't have problems with the former. :cool:

BTW in your avi it says "Land of Sea and Granite." How can a land be a sea? o_O :laugh:
 

pip

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Sep 3, 2010
8,765
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KILDARE
#91
poohcarrot said:
stripy_tie said:
I think I've got something for you Pooh, it's going to need a fair bit of tinkering though. I just can't get it to flow properly. In any case it'll be a nice guilt free distraction from a problematic chapter I'm working on.

I might even get into the habit of doing these drabbles, they're like sudoku for writers.
I love killer sudoku especially designing my own, somewhere on this forum there's a 12 sudoku's of Xmas I posted for Batty.

As for tinkering and being a writer, I'm not the latter, so don't have problems with the former. :cool:

BTW in your avi it says "Land of Sea and Granite." How can a land be a sea? o_O :laugh:
To go nerdy the Dothraki Sea in A Song Of Ice and Fire is land :dance: :dance:
 

poohcarrot

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Sep 13, 2009
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#93
poohcarrot said:
...which also isn't Guernsey! :rolleyes:

For the record, if you include any smileys or write in a different colour in your stories, it won't be posted. Black or Black only! :dance:
The above comment about black only was a fib! I thought I'd have to put all the colour bits in myself, then realised if I clicked on "quote" I could get all the colour codes. :p

Just posted #31 (in colour) & 32
 

Batty

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Feb 17, 2009
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#94
poohcarrot said:
Not really, coz land and sea are opposites. Something is either the land, or it's the sea. Tulip is not the opposite of land. :dance:
If you are being literal, then what about the Land of the Rising Sun??



One of the drabbles mentioned that Scorpio is an animal of the Spider family. Really? Scorpio is a water sign.
If a scorpion is classed as an arachnid, then I've learned something!
 

poohcarrot

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Sep 13, 2009
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#95
Batty said:
poohcarrot said:
Not really, coz land and sea are opposites. Something is either the land, or it's the sea. Tulip is not the opposite of land. :dance:
If you are being literal, then what about the Land of the Rising Sun??
If you assume Greenwich to be the centre for longitude and Japan is in the "Far East", then the sun rises in Japan. :cool:
 

Batty

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Feb 17, 2009
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#96
poohcarrot said:
Batty said:
poohcarrot said:
Not really, coz land and sea are opposites. Something is either the land, or it's the sea. Tulip is not the opposite of land. :dance:
If you are being literal, then what about the Land of the Rising Sun??
If you assume Greenwich to be the centre for longitude and Japan is in the "Far East", then the sun rises in Japan. :cool:
poohcarrot said:
Not really, coz land and sea are opposites. Something is either the land, or it's the sea. Tulip is not the opposite of land. :dance:
Not really, coz land and the Sun are different. If something is the land, then it cannot be the Sun ... :whistle: ;)
 

Jan Van Quirm

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Nov 7, 2008
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Dunheved, Kernow
www.janhawke.me.uk
#97
Batty said:
poohcarrot said:
One of the drabbles mentioned that Scorpio is an animal of the Spider family. Really? Scorpio is a water sign.
If a scorpion is classed as an arachnid, then I've learned something!
Definitely are arachnids and they do have 8 legs, as do ticks and mites who're also in the same class. It's thought that scorpions did evolve in the oceans (they do look similar to lobsters if you think about it ;) ) and are Arthrapods like them and crabs and, back in the fossil records, trilobites. They all have jointed legs in common with spiders who're obviously the most well-known archnids :ugeek:
 

meerkat

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Jan 16, 2010
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Pocklington East Riding Yorkshire
#99
Jan Van Quirm said:
Batty said:
poohcarrot said:
One of the drabbles mentioned that Scorpio is an animal of the Spider family. Really? Scorpio is a water sign.
If a scorpion is classed as an arachnid, then I've learned something!
Definitely are arachnids and they do have 8 legs, as do ticks and mites who're also in the same class. It's thought that scorpions did evolve in the oceans (they do look similar to lobsters if you think about it ;) ) and are Arthrapods like them and crabs and, back in the fossil records, trilobites. They all have jointed legs in common with spiders who're obviously the most well-known archnids :ugeek:
You beat me to it, Jan! Yes, they are arachnidy are Scorpions! And they did begin in the sea! :laugh:
 

Batty

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Feb 17, 2009
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meerkat said:
Jan Van Quirm said:
Definitely are arachnids and they do have 8 legs, as do ticks and mites who're also in the same class. It's thought that scorpions did evolve in the oceans (they do look similar to lobsters if you think about it ;) ) and are Arthrapods like them and crabs and, back in the fossil records, trilobites. They all have jointed legs in common with spiders who're obviously the most well-known archnids :ugeek:
You beat me to it, Jan! Yes, they are arachnidy are Scorpions! And they did begin in the sea! :laugh:
Is that why I enjoy playing Spider Solitaire?? :laugh:
 

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