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Malabarista - now with added pony Started conversation Mar 1, 2009
In medieval Germany, if a one-eyed man on a one-eyed horse, with stirrup leathers of linden bark, wooden stirrups, and spurs of hawthorn rode up to your door and asked for you, this meant...what?
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Mrs Zen Posted Mar 1, 2009
You really should have taken down the sign saying "B&B - Vacancies"
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 1, 2009
You'd probably have to get the shovel out this afternoon.
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Mar 1, 2009
Oooh, the first 
falls!
Taxes are klaxoned, I'm afraid. 
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 1, 2009
Is it some popular myth like death coming to claim a soul?
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Mar 1, 2009
Aaaaand the second
Nothing's sure to be klaxoned but death and taxes. Or something like that.
So, with those out of the way...
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Mar 1, 2009
Bu**ger! 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Mar 1, 2009
Is it anything to do with the Green man? He's found in many pagan myths and the like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_man
RF
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Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune Posted Mar 1, 2009
Is it a fable, a test of your hospitality?
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Mar 1, 2009
Not the Green Man nor a test of hospitality, though I didn't klaxon either of those.
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 1, 2009
I can't find any mention of David Prowse on that link...
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RadoxTheGreen - Retired Posted Mar 1, 2009
Spurs of Hawthorn? 
Is it something to do with the devil?
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Mar 1, 2009
Sorry, you just tripped the *third* obvious
He's not the Devil.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Mar 1, 2009
the fairys had come to take you away to be their king
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Mar 1, 2009
And another ! No fairies are involved. 
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- 1: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 2: Mrs Zen (Mar 1, 2009)
- 3: Mu Beta (Mar 1, 2009)
- 4: Mu Beta (Mar 1, 2009)
- 5: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 6: A Super Furry Animal (Mar 1, 2009)
- 7: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 8: U168592 (Mar 1, 2009)
- 9: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 10: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 1, 2009)
- 11: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 12: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Mar 1, 2009)
- 13: A Super Furry Animal (Mar 1, 2009)
- 14: Br Robyn Hoode - Navo - complete with theme tune (Mar 1, 2009)
- 15: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 16: Mu Beta (Mar 1, 2009)
- 17: RadoxTheGreen - Retired (Mar 1, 2009)
- 18: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
- 19: Taff Agent of kaos (Mar 1, 2009)
- 20: Malabarista - now with added pony (Mar 1, 2009)
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