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AlexAshman Started conversation Jun 4, 2009
Entry: In a name... - A52625513
Author: Alex Tufty Ashman [!] - U566116
This is my latest entry for 
's The Stretcher. Fiction is, of course, not my strong point...
Alex 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jun 4, 2009
...Stavro and Bathos Lobscouse... 
And the 'Squirrel Proposition Refuted' included, too. Ingenius! 
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minorvogonpoet Posted Jun 4, 2009
This is great fun 
and definitely sophisticated!
The sentence beginning "in the manner of a man who did not care..."
seems a bit convoluted.
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Jun 4, 2009
Oh, if we're pointing out small errors:
I guess 'result assured' should be 'rest assured'
(Aside: where did the wall go? 
)
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jun 4, 2009
Very funny. An etiological myth.
So you're like Kinky Friedman, eh>
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AlexAshman Posted Jun 5, 2009
I've fixed the typo, but I'm leaving the convoluted sentence the way it is. The wall was removed to make way for the Atlantic 
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Tibley Bobley Posted Jun 6, 2009
A subtle combination of the sophisticated and the slapstick.
Very good
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Jun 8, 2009
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Wait till you see the *next* challenge
Bwahahahaha
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minorvogonpoet Posted Jun 9, 2009
It's just dawned on me that your country house isn't very tropical. I don't think you get oaks in the tropics. 
Eucalyptus perhaps?
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AlexAshman Posted Jun 9, 2009
Au contraire - some oaks can exist in the tropics, including in central America and southeast Asia.
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Beatrice Posted Jun 11, 2009
I'm still not convinced it's tropical, though, sorry
A peninsula in the Atlantic could be anywhere, and the names Bathos and Lobscouse smack more of German and Greek origin. And I think I spotted a typo, let me check.
But a very entertaining tale 
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Beatrice Posted Jun 11, 2009
Ah yes, the country house becomes a county house...
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A52625513 - In a name...
- 1: AlexAshman (Jun 4, 2009)
- 2: aka Bel - A87832164 (Jun 4, 2009)
- 3: minorvogonpoet (Jun 4, 2009)
- 4: aka Bel - A87832164 (Jun 4, 2009)
- 5: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jun 4, 2009)
- 6: AlexAshman (Jun 5, 2009)
- 7: Danny B (Jun 5, 2009)
- 8: Tibley Bobley (Jun 6, 2009)
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- 12: minorvogonpoet (Jun 9, 2009)
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