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Mike Carey wrote:

"You can spruce up your tassles with a two-to-one mixture of water and washing starch, PF. It always works for me."

Just lie down in the trouser press, Papercut. This isn't a problem.
Just entertained myself by formatting my computer's hard drive and reinstalling the OS to sort out some sort of glitch. (Seems to have worked, mercifully.) Now i can further entertain myself checking I've remembered to back everything up, and reinstalling every single piece of software I've put on it since I bought the bloody thing.
Technology's great, isn't it?"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Gage:
I swear, this is like reading a Nick Bantock book.

Somebody work up some illustrations, and package the book with little envelopes filled with tea, and we shall be rich, my schoolmates!

PS: Ever notice how reading something dense with that white-on-dark screen makes the dark-on-light gray text box look squingey? I sure am.

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Actually I'm waiting for a book collecting the teabags thread. TEABAGS Vol. 1: The first 50 Pages.

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Bat-Mite wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
[B] :) It's #31 - the double-page spread on pp2&3. But they're kind of hard to spot. It's like one of those puzzles you did when you were a kid: ""Can you find three eggs hiding in this picture?""
[B]

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I found the Preview in Comics Continuum
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l1.htm

Here is the first page, there are two Eggmen here that I can see ... or at least two egg shaped demons. One is in the very center of the last panel, and looks like a sorta robo-egg, to his right there is an orange monster, and next to this guy's teeth there is another egg shaped guy holding something that might be a gun.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l2.htm

Oh boy! Five Eggmen here. Robo-Egg again to Amenadiel's right. There are two other eggmen (a robo one and his girlfriend) to the bottom left of the seats, next to the pet demon. And two other eggmen a bit above them.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l3.htm

Can't find any here.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l4.htm

Nope, can't find any here either.

Well, that was certainly fun. But why two Robo-Eggs?"

Bat-Mite wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
[B] :) It's #31 - the double-page spread on pp2&3. But they're kind of hard to spot. It's like one of those puzzles you did when you were a kid: ""Can you find three eggs hiding in this picture?""
[B]

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I found the Preview in Comics Continuum
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l1.htm

Here is the first page, there are two Eggmen here that I can see ... or at least two egg shaped demons. One is in the very center of the last panel, and looks like a sorta robo-egg, to his right there is an orange monster, and next to this guy's teeth there is another egg shaped guy holding something that might be a gun.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l2.htm

Oh boy! Five Eggmen here. Robo-Egg again to Amenadiel's right. There are two other eggmen (a robo one and his girlfriend) to the bottom left of the seats, next to the pet demon. And two other eggmen a bit above them.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l3.htm

Can't find any here.
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0210/10/l4.htm

Nope, can't find any here either.

Well, that was certainly fun. But why two Robo-Eggs?"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Holly crap I can't believe he really did it!?! The Eggmen cometh.

Papercut Fun wrote:

"I'll wait to get the paper copy to search. It's a big event. Like the Beatles coming to America. Like 1-hour photo developing. I think the world will look back on this event as a changing moment in the world. A paradigm shift. A.....okay, so it's just a few eggmen. But proper marketing could make it HUGE!

SPIN OFFS! TOY LINES! X-BOX GAMES!

We are ""Generation EGG""! Quick somebody copyright that name!! And get a T-Shirt company on the phone!! I'm off to lie down for a bit."

strafenkinder wrote:

La meg akkurat sier at I sant nyter denne Message Board. La meg gratulere Mike Carey for alltid denne tråden fortsetter og på og på uten taper det ferske perspektivet.

iv wrote:

you're not a real scandinavian are you? not even a real /dane/ by the sound of it...

Uppmarkt! Tja ba, Strafenkinder. Talar ni Svenska?

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Do some good in the world: United Nations on-line Volunteers.

Proud dad of Imogen Solbritt Stewart, born 30 09-2002."

Typhoid Dave,

Early yesterday morning, my brother and I were trying to stay awake long enough to watch the qualifying session of the Japanese Grand Prix, so at some ungodly hour we were both hunched in front of the computer, reading about the Phoenician Tea and laughing at the tragic fate of Sir Robert Hargreaves-Smythe.

Being a proud father, I am sure you know all about sleep deprevation. Congratualations, by the way.

This afternoon, I was reading a book called 'Kingdom Of The Octopus'. In it there is a reproduction of an extraordinary painting depicting some enterprising salvagers who were using a live octopus to retrieve some ancient pots from a sunken ship. I want to say that the pots were Phoenician in origin, but I don't have the book in front of me, so I'm not entirely sure. The Octopus was attached to a line, which was lowered onto the wreck - immediately it took shelter in one of the pots and clung on with its suckers. The salvagers then pulled the octopus and the pot back to the surface.

Honestly, I'm not making this up.

Now, if we can just train an octopus to scour the sargasso for any sealed jars, we can eventually restore Phoenician Tea to its rightful place, on the shelves of upmarket grocerys and of course the cafe at the British Museum.


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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""

- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"

I think a while back in this thread someone mentioned that Haagen Daas did a good Green Tea flavoured Ice cream, but that it was only available in the far east.

Last Week, I made some Green Tea ice cream but I wasn't particularly impressed with the results: it tastes like really milky tea, which I'm not overly fond of. If I make it again, I might do it as a Sorbet.

I also made a batch of spiced pumpkin ice-cream, which turned out better, although, in my opinion, the book I'm using really over-does it on the quantities of alcohol, they put in some of the recipies.

Also i've still got half a pumpkin to dispose of. A pie perhaps."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

" Or get another pumpkin and put them next to each other on your porch. That way it'll look like one pumpkin is a cannibal. :) "

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Originally posted by backwards7:
Typhoid Dave,

Early yesterday morning, my brother and I were trying to stay awake long enough to watch the qualifying session of the Japanese Grand Prix, so at some ungodly hour we were both hunched in front of the computer, reading about the Phoenician Tea and laughing at the tragic fate of Sir Robert Hargreaves-Smythe.

Being a proud father, I am sure you know all about sleep deprevation. Congratualations, by the way.

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Thanks! Said sprog is in my arms right now learning by example to type one-handed.

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This afternoon, I was reading a book called 'Kingdom Of The Octopus'. In it there is a reproduction of an extraordinary painting depicting some enterprising salvagers who were using a live octopus to retrieve some ancient pots from a sunken ship. I want to say that the pots were Phoenician in origin, but I don't have the book in front of me, so I'm not entirely sure. The Octopus was attached to a line, which was lowered onto the wreck - immediately it took shelter in one of the pots and clung on with its suckers. The salvagers then pulled the octopus and the pot back to the surface.

Honestly, I'm not making this up.

Now, if we can just train an octopus to scour the sargasso for any sealed jars, we can eventually restore Phoenician Tea to its rightful place, on the shelves of upmarket grocerys and of course the cafe at the British Museum.

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That's quite a coincidence! I can say I've never read ""Kingdom of the Octopus"".


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Do some good in the world: United Nations on-line Volunteers.

Proud dad of Imogen Solbritt Stewart, born 30 09-2002."

It wasn't phoenician - it was porcelain - porcelain bowls.



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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""

- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Hey backward7 I've been meaning to ask you where you got that quote inyour signature from. Is it from a poem or a novel or what?

The Gun Club?

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

" Found some interesting bopping around the net http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=419-7 take a look at the second picture."

porlob wrote:

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Originally posted by Lord_Savaunt:
Holly crap I can't believe he really did it!?! The Eggmen cometh.

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Didn't the eggmen make one previous appearance in Issue 10, page 17? That page (that is, the original art), by the way, if for sale at http://www.comicbookart.com/gross/gross.htm

Unfortunately, I'm too poor at present to swipe it up... But there you go.

-patrick www.megaera.com "

Roxane wrote:

I saw the egg men!! (or rather egg people to be pc)

Roxane wrote:

The message board doesn't seem to like me anymore..

Roxane wrote:

The message board doesn't seem to like me anymore..

Adrian Brown wrote:

Everybody loves you Roxane.
Everybody loves you Roxane.
The Eggmen love you Roxane.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Roxane wrote:

Adrian!!! Hello
;o)
The eggmen spread!

Z wrote:

"And who couldn't love those playful scamps in return?? That just made my day, returning to the boards to see that the eggmen had made an appearence."

Bat-Mite wrote:

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Originally posted by Roxane:
I saw the egg men!! (or rather egg people to be pc)

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Ovule-Americans .... or Ovule-brittish ... I don't know where they live."

Bat-Mite wrote:

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Originally posted by Roxane:
I saw the egg men!! (or rather egg people to be pc)

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Ovule-Americans .... or Ovule-brittish ... I don't know where they live."

D.McDonagh is right: It's from Pastoral Hide & Seek by The Gun Club.

They were a great band but sadly, Jeffrey is no longer with us.

I've always admired the way he was able to sum up a feeling or describe a scene, with just a few well chosen words.

I think he had it in him to be a great writer.



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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""

- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"

D.McDonagh is right: It's from Pastoral Hide & Seek by The Gun Club.

They were a great band but sadly, Jeffrey is no longer with us.

I've always admired the way he was able to sum up a feeling or describe a scene, with just a few well chosen words.

I think he had it in him to be a great writer.



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""All my friends are soldiers
and they are getting drunk
Oh, Johnny come and save me
I believe my luck has sunk.""

- Jeffrey Lee Pierce"

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

" I think we are here now. The spot on the tea bags thread I've waited for. The beginning of page number 47! :) :) :) :) WOOHOO!!!
You see fortyseven is my lucky number. The reason for that is because... that's what I picked. I one day realised that I didn't have a lucky number so I decided to pick on. The reason I picked fortyseven is well... I just like the way it looks as a number if that makes sense.

So if I'm right thisshould be the first post on page 47. I think I'll go make me some tea in a minute. Cheers y'all :) "

Mike Carey wrote:

"Congratulations, Greg. And nice page. Put enough teabags in that pot for all of us."

Mike Carey wrote:

"Congratulations, Greg. And nice page. Put enough teabags in that pot for all of us."

Adrian Brown wrote:

Nice one Greg.

Twenty Seven is my lucky number.

Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Put enough teabags in that pot for all of us.

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Heck, just put in 47.

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Papercut Fun wrote:

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Originally posted by Mike Carey:
Put enough teabags in that pot for all of us.

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Heck, just put in 47.

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Z wrote:

"I'm partial to 8. myself.

Alas, I didn't even join until somewhere around the 20-30's."

Z wrote:

"I'm partial to 8. myself.

Alas, I didn't even join until somewhere around the 20-30's."

Lord_Savaunt wrote:

Either I'm seeing double or everyone is double posting yikes! And yes I put enough tea on for everyone one. I left it in the student lounge. Just don't drink any if you need to drive or operate heavy equipment or be in a consious coherent state of mind this weekend.

Z wrote:

"I'm so glad someone else saw that! I was afraid to mention it, I thought it was just me (it was about mindnight here)."

Z wrote:

"I'm so glad someone else saw that! I was afraid to mention it, I thought it was just me (it was about mindnight here)."