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All responses Most smiled responses
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Half invested for interest generation, quarter to charity, quarter for splashing out on stuff.
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Can I have fifteen years to think about it?
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East. Anything described with more detail is by definition more relevant to the plot (unless it's a red herring, but hey).
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I'd be happy to oblige, but more of what, specifically?
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Presumably the lumberjack heard it. And any other number of people who might have been watching the tragic event, since you never specified he was alone.
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Cricket. There isn't really anything else to say on the matter.
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Ducking so it sails over my head, perhaps?
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Since I was a little kid my favourites have been four and purple. In hindsight I suspect it was because of the similarity to my name rather than any particular property of them: four having assonance with Paul, and purple having consonance.
The link with four was reinforced by my favourite childhood book, Four Little Engines by the Rev W. Awdry, which had the cheerful, helpful Peter Sam as engine No. 4 and the snobbish, dsigruntled Sir Handel as engine No. 3. -
1. "Why is it called formspring.me, what the heck does that mean?" 2. "Almost of the questions I've answered so far have been from me pressing the 'random question' button, figures."
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He's over there, behind the cactus - no, not that one, the one to the left... his left, not our left. Oh wait, that's Wilma.
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Probably Marks and Spencer.
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Obviously I can't speak for you, but I'm pretty sure I'm human. I'm certainly more sure that I'm human than I am that I'm dancer. Although I guess to be completely sure I'd have to know what oh no I've gone cross-eyed
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Well we call them trainers over here, but sneakers. The thing about sandals is that if you don't wear socks they're itchy, and if you do wear socks you look like a berk. Granted looking like a berk doesn't bother me too much, but I'm not in any hurry to look deliberately berky. If you follow me.
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New Zealand would be nice. If I went today I'd be able to catch the last few games of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy.
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Richard Feynman and Douglas Adams. Both tried to bridge the gap between the sciences and the arts, but coming from opposite directions: Feynman a scientist who took an interest in the arts, Adams was an artist (hey, writing's an art) who took an interest in the sciences. And both are key men in the popularising of science (Feynman more obviously, but Adams through his love of technology and conservation work). I have no idea if they ever met, though.
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"The Rosetta Stone" by John Ray, a book about... well, the Rosetta Stone, how it was translated and used to translate other hieroglyphs, and what the impact was in terms of working out how Egyptian society functioned and so on. I bought it in preparation for my work volunteering at the Egypt Centre in Swansea University.
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No. I used to up until the age of about 14/15, and then suddenly my brain started thinking about evolution and the origin of the universe and so on and started going "Hang on...". I was a fairly radical atheist for a while, but now I'm a bit milder because let's face it it's not worth getting into a big argument about. Saying that, while I can take liberal and reformist religious types easily enough, I hate fundamentalists.
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According to Xfire, Team Fortress 2: however, I've just realised Xfire counts Civ 4 and its expansion packs as separate games, and that adds up to more than TF2. So Civ 4. Probably.
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No.
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Semi-skimmed milk. I'm also partial to tea (PG Tips, milk, one sugar) and water (still, unflavoured).
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Cambridge graduate with an interest in maths, science and science communication, writing, reading, cricket, steam engines, computer games and other general stuff.
