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Ann

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Bother, I should have gone with the bad spellings!

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ROUND EIGHTEEN : FLOWERING PLANTS

You must find seven flowering plants. You must link to pictures of each of those plants in flower. Each link must include the botanical ('latin') name of the plant, and you should also list the seven botanical names in your post. The flowers on the first plant you link to must be red, on the second they must be orange, on the third yellow, the fourth green, the fifth blue, the sixth purple and the seventh white.

You must not choose more than one plant from any genus, or any plant already chosen by another contestant. You may choose a different subspecies or variety of a species chosen by another contestant.

The total number of letters in each set of seven botanical names will be added up; the contestant with the median number of letters will be eliminated.

N.B. Thank you Caty - I think this can work.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ann:
Bother, I should have gone with the bad spellings!

You missed out by 2 minutes and I was looking forward to the vote. [Frown]

Enjoy your new found freedom. [Biased]

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Oh bugger. Life ensnared me [Waterworks]

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red Pelargonium tongaense

orange Lathyrus occidentalis var. Montanus

yellow Gentiana lutea ssp. Symphyandra

green Aconitum lycoctonum ssp. lycoctonum

blue Buglossoides purpurocaerulea

purple Centaurea phrygia ssp. pseudophrygia

white Cerastium carinthiacum subsp. austroalpinum

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Caty S.

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Red: Echinopsis chamaecereus
Orange: Tropaeolum tuberosum var. lineamaculatum 'Ken Aslet'
Yellow: Calendula officinalis 'Fiesta Gitana'
Green: Helleborus viridis subsp. occidentalis
Blue: Caryopteris x clandonensis 'First Choice'
Purple: Rosa 'Cardinal de Richelieu'
White: Aesculus hippocastanum 'Baumannii'

I make that 212 letters in total. Or 220 if you include the var. and the subsp.

And I apologise to the hosts for suggesting a round that involves them looking at so many links.

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Caty S.

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Oh, and you may find this little thingumy useful.
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jedijudy

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red Monardia didyma
orange Rhododendron calendulaceum
yellow Lysimachia quadrifolia
green Veratrum viride
blue Campanula americana
purple Iris verna verna
white Daucus carota

I think that's 118 letters. I'm not positive, as I should be in bed, but obviously the Quiz is more important to me than resting! [Biased]

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flags_fiend
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quote:
Originally posted by caty the southerner:
Orange: Tropaeolum tuberosum var. lineamaculatum 'Ken Aslet'

Do things like 'Ken Aslet' count as part of the latin name, as mine had some bits like that that I assumed were the common name so missed off?

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Caty S.

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Well, Quizmaster's decision is of course final, but I have wandered off and checked on the technicalities of botanical names. Despite this round being my idea, I am not really much of a gardener.

These parts are, I think, the variety of a cultivated plant. Assuming Wikipedia is correct, these are classifications rather than part of the offical botanical names, and therefore would not count as part of the botanical name - and indeed neither would the 'var.' or 'ssp.'/'subsp'.

I may rethink some of my entries.

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jedijudy

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Phooy! I was so tired that I forgot about the yellow skunk cabbage!

When I was in Oregon this past Spring, there were acres of these flowers all over, looking for all the world like sunlight growing on the ground and in the water. (And poking up through the snow!)

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OK. Here goes.

Red: Babiana stricta
Orange: Crassula falcata
Yellow: Gelsemium sempervirens
Green: Parodia columnaris
Blue: Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Purple: Argyroderma fissum
White: Bacopa caroliniana

And by the way, this website may be rather useful.

davelarge

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Caty S.

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quote:
Originally posted by caty the southerner:
Red: Echinopsis chamaecereus
Orange: Tropaeolum tuberosum var. lineamaculatum 'Ken Aslet'
Yellow: Calendula officinalis 'Fiesta Gitana'
Green: Helleborus viridis subsp. occidentalis
Blue: Caryopteris x clandonensis 'First Choice'
Purple: Rosa 'Cardinal de Richelieu'
White: Aesculus hippocastanum 'Baumannii'

quote:
Originally posted by caty the southerner:
I may rethink some of my entries.

I have rethought some of my entries. I am now going for:

Red: Echinopsis chamaecereus (unchanged)
Orange: Tropaeolum tuberosum var. lineamaculatum (omitting possibly dodgy bit at the end)
Yellow: Chrysosplenium oppositifolium (different)
Green: Helleborus viridis subsp. occidentalis (unchanged)
Blue: Caryopteris x clandonensis (omitting possibly dodgy bit at the end)
Purple: Astilbe chinensis var. taquetii (different)
White: Thalictrum aquilegiifolium (different)

Which totals (I think) a mere 184 letters.

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Wet Kipper
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quote:
Originally posted by caty the southerner:


And I apologise to the hosts for suggesting a round that involves them looking at so many links.

why, then, did you change your ideas andadd some more ? [Mad] [Biased]

[ 08. November 2007, 15:07: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]

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Liberty

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Red: Kniphofia uvaria

Orange: Kallstromia grandiflora

Yellow: Lasthenia Calfornica

Green: clematis forsteri

Blue: Neomarica northiana

Purple: Mammillaria longiflora

White: Magnolia yulan


The Spice Girls music (using the term loosely) has been playing in the background the whole time I've been researching this! Help!

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Patdys
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Out of respect for Wet Kipper, I have chosen not to post any links this round.
coff essay coff

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Adam.

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Here goes:

Red: Acer Platanoides
Orange: Bomaria Caldasii
Yellow: Dodoneae viscosa

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Adam.

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Green: Ficus lyrata
Blue: Strelitzia regina
Purple: Kennedia nigricans
White: aloysius triphilla

Which in total is 107 letters.

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Patdys
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Bloody flowers. Now see what you've done.

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Patdys
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Here you go Wet Kipper, All better now.

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What a brilliant find PATDYS.

After the Snail

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In a tough week we lose yet another player due to not posting in time.

GOODBYE AND FARE WELL

Rugasaw


Qualifiers:

Caty the Southerner
Davelarge
Flags Fiend
Hart
Icklejen
Jedijudy

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ROUND NINETEEN : PROCRASTINATION

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Originally posted by Doublethink:
PROCRASTINATORY ROUND: I'LL THINK OF A TITLE LATER

Each participant will post a link to an online procrastinatory activity.

You must post a link to an online activity that you hope will keep us all on that page for hours. After 22:00 on Monday I will get all contestants and Also Rans to list which activities held their attention for longest through to shortest time.

You are hereby called to waste your entire weekend. [Smile] [Yipee] [Smile]

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Chorister

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Virtual sparkler - a topical game for the season. Plus some other bonus firework games to keep you sparkling all weekend.

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Adam.

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I was introduced to this site by the ship, so I'll help perpetuate it: Free Rice -- fun and helps the hungry!

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Caty S.

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Pathfinder. My best score so far is a little over 12,000 and I shall be hearing the music in my sleep...
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I could watch this one for ever ...

Extremely Interesting Site!

[Big Grin]

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I can waste hours on this site, lots of small games provide hours of fun.

Unfortunately I won't be able to spend all weekend procrastinating as I'm away and without access to a computer, have fun everyone though!

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Zuma zoom zoom!

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comet

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here's my favorite!

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jedijudy

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Awwww! Who can resist this site?

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Patdys
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Hostly Note

Please do not use punctuation or smilies as links.
Please always provide some text giving a description of what the link will lead to.

end Hostly note

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"Oh adolescence, oh adolescence - I wince before thine incandescence !"

Ogden Nash

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Patdys
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Work safe reply to Wet Kipper.
The brevity of the post was meant to reflect the interest of the site. I take your points on board and again direct you to my image in this post.

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quote:
Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
Work safe reply to Wet Kipper.

that is so cute it's almost revolting.

but not quite.

*sigh*
[Axe murder]

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Perhaps I should reward them for procrastinating over their posts. The rules are, however, that you need to post to qualify.

We are therefore sad to lose ....

Davelarge
Icklejen

Qualifiers:

Caty the Southerner
Flags Fiend
Hart
Jedijudy

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I kept waiting for the last two to post so that I could post a link to the biggest time-sink on the Internets. I wanted to give them the chance before my posting as an also-ran. It seemed so obvious to me.

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ROUND TWENTY : PIRATES

I was determined to get this idea into the Knockout Quiz and now is the right time to do it.

You must take on the persona of a well known pirate and (by writing in the first person singular) convince us all that you have had a bad press and you were really a good guy or gal who was badly misunderstood.

Competitors and Also Rans will then vote on the best arguments and rank them from top to bottom.

Justify your pirating and you will survive into the medal positions.

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N.B. Plan your arguments - this round will run for more than 24 hours if needs be.
[Cool]

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Adam.

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Final four, eh? That's a new one for me, who made it to the final seven last year leaving simultaneously with two others due to my inability to pick lottery numbers.

I will now have to start researching pirates.

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Patdys
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Aaaarrr, Here ya go Comet.

Actaully, I used to work on a pirate hospital ward- Aaaarrr 8.


[murdered my code]

[ 12. November 2007, 22:12: Message edited by: Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow ]

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Ahoy me hearties! I be Gasparilla the Pirate. It may be that ye knew of me from tales of my sage advice to King Charles the Third of Spain. Whilst I was parlaying with the King, a wench (a sorry-lookin’ thing she was) made bald-faced accusations besmirching me honor and gallantry. What was an honest man to do but take his ship and flee? And what how would an honest man (as I be) feed his loyal crew, save by taking from the rich to give to the poor? I heared tell of a gentleman by the name of Robin Hood who did that very thing, and he be a hero as I understand it.

Anyhow, as I and me men searched for the warm breezes that the southern climes claim, we espied the fair coasts and islands outlyin’ from the Florida coast. Well, we felt we was home. And as any good citizen would do, we trawled the coasts and benefited the neighbors we met on the sea by lightening their loads. The shame we would have felt if we had allowed them ships over laden (and drawing more than was safe) to sail into the maw of a hurricane. It would have been “alas and alack” and great heaviness of heart we’d-a felt had they sunk with all hands lost. Truly we made many a man’s life longer by lightening their loads. And safe we kept all that booty…I mean treasure, on an island what was named after me own self!

There be rumors that I would put men to the sword if’n they wouldn’t join me crew. Nay! When a man has the choice of adventurin’ on the high seas or…not…well, it be as plain as the nose sittin’ on yer face that most scurvy dogs prefer the life of a buccaneer!

Wimmin, well that’s another tale. It be dangerous as sin to leave a damsel in the jungles of that wild land, what with ‘gators and snakes (shudder) and all. And it be purely wrong to put wimmin on a ship with me men, as fine as me men be in decorum and such. It seemed to be a good plan to keep ‘em safe on a little isle…oh, it be as pretty as ye please! Some of the ladies’ fathers would come to fetch them. They kindly paid me a shipping and handling fee, a reasonable amount, mind ye.

We was makin’ a good living, me men and me, sailing the coast and helpin’ the neighborin’ mateys when of a sudden, we spotted a British ship, fat and sassy she was. As we commenced to meet her to lighten her load, she lowered her flag! Shiver me timbers!! She a-raised a new flag declaring herself to be the USS Enterprise !! And ye will never believe this me hearty, but she fired cannonballs at us! And here we was bein’ helpful and all! Well, she blew me poor ship to pieces. And ye do know that a captain must go down with his ship, is it not so? Bein’ an honorable man, I accompanied me ship to Davy Jones locker.

Now, I ask ye, should I not have stories and songs wrote about me and me crew? Did any other hero work so to lessen the perils of the sea? And yet, me ears hear tales of Gasparilla, a dastardly pirate. Arrrrr. It breaks me heart, it does. Ye be the judge, Matey.

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Adam.

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It may pain you to learn, gentle reader, that I am not hyperrrr-rrhotic and am loathe to call any of my fellow sailors "matey". In spite of this, I, James, commonly known as "Captain Hook", have been marked as a most notorious pirate by my biographer, J.M. Barrie.

"Hook" is a rather cruel pseudonym, given to me on account of a most unfortunate injury I was dealt by a dastardly crocodile, one of the many dangers I regularly endured as part of my mission to rehabilitate the, aptly named, "lost children". Barrie oft refused to mention my real name, saying that it would cause too much scandal. Out of respect for my surviving family, I also will refrain from mentioning it. I do, however, trust that once my writings have exonerated my name, my family will be glad to reveal it.

As careful as he was with details of my past, Barrie did let slip a few. I was indeed schooled at Eton and served as bosun on "Blackbeard"'s ship. What is missing from that part of my tale is the fact that I was kidnapped by the pirate Blackbeard shortly before completing my studies. I had enough wit about me, though, to realize that the only way a man left Blackbeard's ship alive was as Captain of his own. Throughout my career on that ship, I was certainly firm, but in as many ways as I could without arousing suspicion, worked to defuse the cruelty of Blackbeard's schemes. Rumours that I was the only sailor Long John Silver ever feared are an exaggeration.

Eventually, I won enough money to purchase my own ship (and it was purchased, not stolen). My one desire then was to reach out to girls and boys who, at a more tender age than I, had been plucked from the bosoms of their loving families and abonded on distant islands. The children were not always appreciative of my efforts and some even became violent towards me. This did not cause me to love them less although, of course, I had to defend myself and my mission at times.

My life came to end not at the hands of a child, but in the jaws of a crocodile, one of the many dangers rampant in the environs. My most profound feeling as the beast's jaws closed around my frame was of pity for the boy who had pushed me, a boy who possessed not the knowledge to act with the honour in a fight which I made it my goal always to act with.

Floreat Etona

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Chorister

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In honour of the last four competitors' efforts, I have dressed up especially for the occasion.

I even persuaded the Quizmaster to do the same.

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jedijudy

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I'm so excited to be one of the last four! Normally I get knocked off because of computer problems or my weird schedule.

This is awesome! [Yipee]

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flags_fiend
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I must inform you all that I am in fact the Dread Pirate Roberts of The Princess Bride fame. It has been said that I never leave captives (a throughly untrue description in itself, I think of them more as guests) alive, I must assure you that this is not the case. After a short visit on my ship they all decide to stay on, where else do you think I would get all my crew from, indeed I will pick the new captain from my guests/crew. Thus allowing me to return to my one true love, from whom I was so cruelly dragged away from because of my original low position in life as a farm hand.

Me and my crew are entirely misunderstood, it isn't our fault that everyone is so afraid of us they give us things, but it does help pay for the hospitality we extend to all our visitors, many of whom do not have much money and see joining our ship as a way to earn an honest living, as I myself did.

The Dread Pirate Roberts (because Westley just didn't sound right)

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Caty S.

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It has been my misfortune to be born in a time when polite society expects a woman to be a decorative ornament adorning her husband’s drawing room, and when marriage is little more than a respectably veneered cross between slavery and prostitution. I was never much good at being decorative, but as the daughter of a Charleston lawyer that was to be my lot. Of course, I was in truth his illegitimate daughter, and my mother, the woman Charleston society knew as his wife, was in fact a maid he had got into trouble, after which his real wife kicked him out of their house. However, other than illustrating the source of my disregard for society’s conventions, this matters little.

I am an astute businesswoman, educated a little and capable of managing many staff, but I do not suffer fools gladly. And having seen the difficulties my mother suffered through the selfish actions of my father, I abhor the double-standards in this society which allowed respectable men great license but insisted a woman must remain pure. It is my conviction a woman should take responsibility for herself: that she should neither become nor remain tied to a man she could not trust, but instead choose her own destiny. This conviction made me unpopular when I refused the suitors of my father’s choosing, and instead married a man he considered a pirate. I admit that I chose a life of excitement over a life of tea parties, and I feel sure that you will understand and sympathise with that.

My marriage was not happy, and I left my husband. I admit now that I was blinded by teenage infatuation, and my father had been right: my husband was an unpleasant man, and had indeed been involved in piracy – a practice I wholeheartedly condemn. He was angered by this, and swore revenge. A woman alone has few choices; respectable, well-paying employment is not an option. She can either survive on her wits, or earn her keep on her back as a mistress or whore. I chose the former, and I also chose a man who I respected and who could offer me a life of excitement and a chance to earn my own way. And I did earn what I had – not steal as the legends say. I worked hard for what I gained, honing my skills in sailing and in the use of pistol and sword to defend myself against the ruffians and pirates I encountered.

It is a terrible scandal that such qualities as initiative, independence, business acumen, strong leadership and a love of the sea are denigrated in females; simply because I possess and use these characteristics I am subjected to outrageous slurs on my morals and lifestyle, with some even going so far as to listen to the lies spread by my former husband and accuse me of dishonesty, theft and piracy.

Anne Bonny

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Doublethink.
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I am the Pirate Video, and it's all a hideous lie what they say about me. I have never had anything to do with organized crime - anyone who knows me knows I am incredibly disorganized, I can't even organize myself into a decent picture. If I happen to fall into the hands of drug lords and criminals, well, everyone runs the risk of falling in with bad company. You look at the quality and think you were robbed, but you got what you paid for - if you weren't such a skinflint we wouldn't even be having this conversation

Aaargh !!! My pathetically brittle cassette casing has cracked, the copper dropped me on his boot, infamy ! Infamy ! They've all got it in for me !

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell

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Adam.

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Well, all four of us have posted now, so I guess it's votes to QM by pm?

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