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Posted on entry Open thread 130 ::: September 29, 2009, 01:29 AM:
#102 heresiarch

I don't know though I'd suspect he did. But I'm sure Joan Aiken did when she wrote Midnight is a Place, which features feral pigs in the sewers under an industrial town.
Posted on entry From catchy to clichéd in no time flat ::: January 30, 2009, 05:04 AM:
Keith@ 293: Ah, I remember reading about Quintus' brothers recently (probably googling Dr Who).

Wikipedia says the real Caecilius had two sons - Quintus and Sextus, and suggests the first four sons didn't survive to adulthood.

I don't remember a sister in the Cambridge books - I'm pretty sure our teacher made up one for our all female class. A sister was also invented for the Dr Who episode. And poor Sextus seems to have missed entirely on being fictionalised.
Posted on entry Nobody living can ever stop me ::: January 19, 2009, 11:31 PM:
Sara K @37 I was in high school before I knew that was an American song. In Kenya we had our own version.

Same!

This land is your land, this land is my land
From Bluff in Southland, to the Bay of Islands,
From the Kauri forests, to the southern ranges,
This land was made for you and me.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From Manapouri to Cape Reinga,
From the southern Fiordlands to the thermal regions
This land was made for you and me.
Posted on entry Three approaches to Utopia ::: November 17, 2008, 04:48 AM:
Jerome, he was Alfred Kroeber, not Arthur (same mistake made in the Amazon review).

Posted on entry Internet Time-wasters III ::: November 10, 2008, 02:45 AM:
The sliding puzzle is known as the parking garage or bus puzzle here (we had a wooden one too).
Posted on entry The Huntress ::: October 30, 2008, 05:30 AM:
1 Black unisex fanny pack
So it's possible to get bumbags that are gendered?
Posted on entry Either a heart attack, or a Greek of the same name ::: October 12, 2008, 06:05 AM:
Since the name link matches the one in the message.
Posted on entry Open thread 110 ::: June 27, 2008, 06:35 PM:
I know it as a campfire song.

"I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills
I love the flowers, I love the daffodils
I love the campfire, when all the lights are low
Boom-de-ada, boom-de-ada, boom-de-ada, boom-de-ada x2"

http://www3.telus.net/jp123/1cgg/rounds.html
Posted on entry Open thread 109 ::: June 02, 2008, 02:40 AM:
I've only read about 64 of them, I'm definitely a barbarian.

Funnily enough I have read the very first book on the list, which is science fiction, though I didn't know that when I picked it up.

Ursula Le Guin is not on the list. Enough said.

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