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AIBU Books - Part 3

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MoominMymbleandMy · 07/05/2009 21:07

I can't get into the old thread so I think we filled it up! I hope everyone finds the new one.

So nice, shiny new thread, nice shiny new AIBU.

AIBU to be jealous of my DH's correspondence with a stranger?

Pogle, I feel I ought to know yours but I'm not getting anywhere.

Maria, this isn't ringing bells at all now. Doh!

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llandb · 09/05/2009 22:14

Oops, so obsessed with being miffed about cat being sent on boat that I blanked the grocer bit and didn't notice it was summat else! Glad it wasn't true about the ship; not sure I've read this one though...

Hmmm, most puzzled about the nanny.

As for my one, no witches as such, but you could say that the incumbent who is so offended by my presence is generally regarded as rather wizard. And I, swanning in with my advanced technical knowledge, am able to pass myself off as being even more wizard, heh.

llandb · 09/05/2009 22:15

Er... puzzled about both nannies!

llandb · 09/05/2009 22:17

Oh, wait, we do meet someone who fancies herself as a witch - or at least is aristocratic and mean and lets everyone believe that she's a powerful witch. But she's just a fraud and as scared of me and my reputed powers as can be.

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MoominMymbleandMy · 09/05/2009 22:23

Yay, Nurse Matilda fans! Anyone ever counted up the children's names? I started once but lost count after 40-ish.

CJ, I obviously need to find out about sniping software for the next rare AF. Is Esther's Term on Pogle' sites?

I come from a family steeped in evil doings but I want to turn my back on their wickedness. However, all my efforts to forge a new life have ended in failure once people discover my past history. AIBU to despair?

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pollywobbledoodle · 09/05/2009 22:25

llandb are you on a quest to find a golden object?

ps not 2 nannies....am trying to guess moomin's but haven't got the hang of the game yet

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MoominMymbleandMy · 09/05/2009 22:41

llandb, this is making my brain (what's left of it) hurt! Do you live in a home which could be described as mobile, perchance?

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CJCregg · 09/05/2009 22:52

Esther's Term

Can only link to Chapter One - you have to return to her journal page to get the others ... am trawling for more. It's weird but fascinating!

I am utterly bemused by llandb's one ...

Moomin, need a clue. Am too Marlow-bound to be able to think more broadly.

llandb · 09/05/2009 22:53

Polly, um, maybe... I'm certainly on a quest to find an object that is often portrayed as golden, although I seem to remember that Indiana Jones (different story ) identified it as wooden But I'm guessing that the object I'm looking for is, indeed, the one you have in mind!

Moomin, um, I do spend time being of no fixed abode and at some stage there is a ship (there could be a waggon but I don't recall one) - so unless I have a faulty memory (well, actually, I do anyway ), then not really.

Oh, I escape stake-burning early on by taking credit for an astronomical event. Hey, I was smart enough to know it was going to happen. We nearly had a tragic near-miss with the date though!

CJCregg · 09/05/2009 23:06

llandb, you're not Tintin, are you?!!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 09/05/2009 23:10

llandb, do you have a funny little quiff?!!!

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llandb · 09/05/2009 23:13

CJ, 'fraid not...

Moomin', I'm not sure (but not if you're thinking of Tintin ) - I don't recall how my hair goes as I gave away my (semi-illustrated) copy; the page on Wikipedia shows me wearing a loud checked suit and a bowler hat, so hard to tell about the hair.

llandb · 09/05/2009 23:22

Moomin', pretty please, wee clue?

CJCregg · 09/05/2009 23:29
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MoominMymbleandMy · 09/05/2009 23:30

Not Tintin...oh damn!!! I was sure I had cracked it, at last.

llandb, you should definitely have a prize for the most tantalising AIBU in a looong time.

CJ, thank you for the linkie...it will soothe my baffled brain!

Further clues...in my quest for a good home I took up child care, went to sea and acted in Punch and Judy...

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llandb · 09/05/2009 23:49

Hmm, Moomin', still puzzled!

Now, Polly, that golden object of yours. Well, I've got myself a cushy job, no doubt about that, and certainly what I say goes, pretty much. But all these daft muscled types keep banging on about how of course I'll prove my worth by going off into the wilds to risk life and limb and starvation. In fact they're getting quite strident and restless about it. I've done my level best to get out of it thus far, with all sorts of excuses about things needing urgent attention here.

But suddenly things have hotted up around here; one of the no-brain musclers has had his nose put out of joint due to a misunderstanding, and this is looking like a good time to make myself scarce. I just need some dame in distress to ask for help, and if volunteering for the job isn't sufficient, I can always pretend to go looking for the golden object afterwards. Hard to fault, you know, and then noone suspects me of cowardice.

CJCregg · 10/05/2009 00:07

llandb, you're from Connecticut originally, I think?

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MoominMymbleandMy · 10/05/2009 00:08

llandb, not half as puzzled as I am! But would I be right in thinking this is quite a blokey sort of book?

...alas, the taint of black magic follows me everywhere. Will nobody accept me for myself...

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MoominMymbleandMy · 10/05/2009 00:10

Mark Twain?!

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llandb · 10/05/2009 00:24

CJ, ma'am, and Moomin' too, I tip my hat at your solick detectin' and my 'pologies for bein' so contrarian. Don't rightly view the book as blokey, though I regard myself as blokey, what with being straight-talkin' and handy at engineering and munitions and such-like. Can't work out how that incumbent managed to send me to sleep for so long though, seeing as he's such a fraud.

And I say Clarence is right, though he don't realise it, that cats ought rightly to rule the world.

Moomin', your author doesn't favour dressing in black and wearing a hat, does he? A bit Vetinari-like?

'Night, all - cor, it's tomorrow!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 10/05/2009 00:41

Phew! Congratulations CJ! Much, much quicker off the mark!

llandb, no, I'm not in the Discworld but I think I would like your friend Clarence...

Right, brief browse of the Marlows and bedtime.

Night all!

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MoominMymbleandMy · 10/05/2009 02:57

Er - just finished Esther's Term. So much for a brief browse . CJ, Pogle, this stuff is seriously addictive!

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StripeyOss · 10/05/2009 03:36

pollywobbles is Nanny Mcphee!!

AIBU to be annoyed that my father changed my name to "No-one" after disinheriting me?

Pogleswood · 10/05/2009 08:34

Must confess I thought Moomin's was Nanny McPhee
So,once more into the breach..are you feline yourself,Moomin?The trouble with the fanfic is that the good stuff is almost like discovering that last book AF never wrote!

Pogleswood · 10/05/2009 08:36

AIBU to get my friend to do a job I should be doing at school? I really don't want to,and he doesn't mind...

CJCregg · 10/05/2009 11:22

Moomin, I'm so with you there! Fanfic is the thief of time. Shouted at my DCs this morning for having the effrontery to wake me up at 8.45 - they weren't to know I'd been up half the night reading ... but stumbled on a rather revolting episode involving Nicola, Patrick and a condom, ICK.

When I get my brain back in order, I'll come up with a proper AIBU ...

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