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kittiwake 12 yrs ago | 1 replies
Googling "the last tycoon flood" brought me to a plot synopsis, and it does include the flood scene you remember. "In Hollywood there is a large earthquake that occurs as Cecelia goes to collect Pat Brady, her father,…

kittiwake 12 yrs ago
Mine doesn't work very well because both the hamster our aunt gave us (much to my parents' annoyance) and the street we grew up in have girl's names. Unless I count my dad's tropical fish which didn't have names. So I…

kittiwake 12 yrs ago | 7 replies
I only knew about this from a post in an LJ friend's journal. And I've only been unable to access LJ once recently. So are the hackers targetting LJ at times that affect US users rather than those in the rest of the worl…


kittiwake 12 yrs ago
From the introduction to "Genesis" by Eduardo Galeano, which is a non-fiction book about Latin American history.

kittiwake 12 yrs ago
I think I was prescribed some when I had bronchitis as a teenager, but nothing since then. So it's been just over 30 years.


kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
And she will probably say that she paid you for the first hotel room, which you failed to provide. So I'm not sure it's worth it. Edited to say: I just re-read your original post and realised that it doesn't say wh…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
I just found this on HM Revenue and Customs website (by Googling postal charges customs). The limit seems to be £18. 2.3 What are the limits for customs duty and import VAT? Commercial consignments of £18 or less are…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
No. Apparently it had knives strapped to its legs.

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 2 replies
We aren't allowed to send joke e-mails at work, and it was the same at my previous job too. I think it's because what one person finds funny, someone else might think crosses the line into offensiveness. At my previou…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
I went for the 32gb version. I have now got it 2/3 filled with music, language learning courses, podcasts, apps, books & short stories. So I'd definitely recommend going for the bigger size!


kittiwake 13 yrs ago
That poor little tree looks as if it is being squeezed to death by an enormous cream python!

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
It means being overly sensitive to the cold, so if someone says you are nesh it is meant as a slight insult or to tease you. People use it here (Nottingham), and I think of it as an East Midlands / Yorkshire word. Wik…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 2 replies
It's practically unreadable and populated by over the top drama queens. If only Miss Havisham had really held anger management counselling sessions for them, as she does in one of Jasper Fforde's books : )

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
It's military science-fiction set 400 years from now, in a future where technology is based on steam-power because electromagnetic pulse weapons have made electricity useless. I hadn't heard of this author before, but…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
When was a teenager I read a lot of Dell Shannon's police procedurals about Lieutenant Luis Mendoza and the LAPD homicide squad, and I still remember that she used certain phrases over and over again. Mendoza's children…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
Top of my list would be the very amusing "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter", but I also loved "The TIme of the Hero" which is a more serious story about boys at a Lima military school, and the detective stories "Who Kill…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
I don't recall Amanda Knox's parents apologising to Meredith Kercher's family either, even though she has been found guilty.

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
Tiggsybabes is a Channel Islander, and lived on Jersey until a few years ago. I'm sure she would not mind answering your questions.

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
I could see it being a problem if, say cousins with the same last name also had the same first names. I think it would be very inconsiderate of the parents of the younger cousin to do that. (I've heard of it,…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago
Doris Lessing is one author of literary fiction who is not afraid to describe some of her books as science fiction. This book has a great introduction in which she explains why she loves science fiction and wanted to wri…

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
Unfortunately that is only likely to impress other magicians - the average audience member isn't going to know that a trick was not done in the way that they have seen the masked magician do it : (

kittiwake 13 yrs ago | 1 replies
I don't have any TBRs with girls' name in the so I'm going to have to go for one that's embedded in another word. "The Annals of Imperial Rome" by Tacitus

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