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Sandemaniac
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Show us your allergic reaction!
Also known as Reader's Hives
AG
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"It becomes soon pleasantly apparent that change-ringing is by no means merely an excuse for beer" Charles Dickens gets it wrong, 1869
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Welease Woderwick
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Disputed Dismissals in Junior level Club Cricket
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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Great Moments In Medical Waiting Rooms
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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The contents of your drawers, revealed!
Number of page visits to Ship of Fools Bulletin Boards trebles, number of members hits 30K in three days, but the Great Disillusionment arrives when all those people actually start reading the thread and find that, rather than the salacious delights they were expecting, the contents are actually more like:
10 pairs of grey socks, one odd yellow sock, seven assorted buttons and an old school tie.
Numbers of page hits decrease drastically overnight and Simon is bombarded with requests for membership cancellations.
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Dafyd
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Things for which I am underappreciated
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we remain, thanks to original sin, much in love with talking about, rather than with, one another. Rowan Williams
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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(I have a feeling someone has already written this or something similar...)
Touring the roundabouts of Swindon - a guide for visitors
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Adventures of a Pension Actuary
(I'm told this is the job for people who find accountancy too stressful)
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Baptist Trainfan
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Touring the roundabouts of Swindon - a guide for visitors
You do realise that there are two sequels to this: one is about Hemel Hempsted (home of the 'other' Magic Roundabout, though there's one at Heathrow T4 as well) and then there is the Milton Keynes version.
What about:
A Discussion on the Reasons for Numerical Amendments to Freight Locomotives of the London and North Eastern Railway (1923-1947).
Now that probably does exist!
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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The current Archbishop of Wales once said he wouldn't allow someone a grant towards a PhD entitled:
The probable composition of the doorhandle on the left hand side door of the Second Temple.
Shame - that WOULD have been boring!
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Organ Builder
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I need help choosing a filing system for my nail clippings collection!
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Which is the most effective boring tool?
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Organ Builder
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# 12478
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Chorister--I suppose it's an occupational hazard, but I would probably follow and contribute to that thread.
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How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.--E.F. Benson
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Baptist Trainfan
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I did once read that an academically-minded Curate really did preach, at Evensong and in a working-class district of Birmingham, a sermon entitled:
The Significance of some Recent Archaeological Discoveries for our Understanding of the Inter-Testamental Period".
Bet they loved it!
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pimple
Ship's Irruption
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Haricots - aspirated or not? (From a newbie in Carcassonne)
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In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill)
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Starbug
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How long would it take to listen to the entire contents of your iPod?
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Lolly
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Well, when I was younger...
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And draw us near and bind us tight
all your children here in their rags of light - LC
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Screwdrivers I have known
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Pocket protectors - still in fashion?
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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Punctuation errors in the BCP--do they affect the validity of sacraments?
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Minor Windows Security Updates -- Fifth Binary Character in Each Line of Code
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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pouring the perfect draught: a bartender's treatise
this one occurred to me today while swearing at the IPA at work. you'd be amazed how much my co-workers and I discuss tempermental beer.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Beethoven
Ship's deaf genius
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quote:
Originally posted by cheesymarzipan:
A Circus thread:
Who is the most pedantic?
alternatively
When pedants get it wrong and I need to correct them in minute detail
But you see, pedantry is fun! Especially when other people say things like, 'Sorry to be pedantic about this...' then fail to be pedantic. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
[Editing because preview post was not my friend but should have been.]
[ 10. February 2011, 15:17: Message edited by: Beethoven ]
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Who wants to be a rock anyway?
toujours gai!
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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How to spell
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Autenrieth Road
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quote:
Originally posted by Nunzia:
Favorite Unvoiced Consonants
and of course, it's inevitable sister thread.
Hey! I would be interested in these threads!
Ssssss. Fffffffft. Pah.
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Truth
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
How to spell
Actually I wish people would find this a little MORE interesting. Wish, sometimes, to the point of wanting to thwack them upside the head with a collegiate dictionary (10th edition, library binding).
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Banner Lady
Ship's Ensign
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Their ain't nuffin rong wf my speling, yo.
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Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed.
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Nunzia
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quote:
Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
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Originally posted by Nunzia:
Favorite Unvoiced Consonants
and of course, it's inevitable sister thread.
Hey! I would be interested in these threads!
Ssssss. Fffffffft. Pah.
Yeah, me too.
Also, this.
Condiments, condiments, condiments!
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PixelPi
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# 16160
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Easy Crafts With Cat Whiskers
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I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
How to spell
Shouldn't that be 'How to Spel'?
Otherwise people might think it is an interesting thread and start posting stuff on it like how to blend frogs legs and beetle juice into a potion to make your worst enemy shrink to the size of a peanut.
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Nunzia
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
pouring the perfect draught: a bartender's treatise
this one occurred to me today while swearing at the IPA at work. you'd be amazed how much my co-workers and I discuss tempermental beer.
I've just started reading physicist Len Fisher's How to Dunk a Doughnut and am enjoying it very much.
I wonder if chapter 7: Bath Foam, Beer Foam and the Meaning of Life, would help you in your experimentation.
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Beethoven
Ship's deaf genius
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My favourite word
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Who wants to be a rock anyway?
toujours gai!
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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I'm rushing here straight from Amazon, to offer the title of a REAL book I just found which truly fits right here...
Locomotives: Locomotive, Whyte Notation, Streamliner, AAR Wheel Arrangement, Steam Turbine Locomotive, London Underground Rolling Stock.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Efficient computational algorithms for calculating statistical moments.
I think has the advantages of being highly technical, of limited interest (yes I ever so often do look at some of the results) and involving lots of repetition
Jengie
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Back to my blog
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joan knox
Knoxy is my homeboy
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Train spotters thread: what type of anorak do you wear?
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Jesus saves, Allah protects, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich
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Ariston
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
pouring the perfect draught: a bartender's treatise
this one occurred to me today while swearing at the IPA at work. you'd be amazed how much my co-workers and I discuss tempermental beer.
Comet, I think you lost this game. I think there are more than a few of us who would follow this thread religiously.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person here who can appreciate a well-poured beer.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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Ye gods and haierie faieries. Herein lies proof that Darwin, Charles, was wronger than A Very Wrong Thing™. For if we were evolving, as a species, our ability to scintillate, titillate, fulminate and otherwise obviate the soporific amongst us from the fraught clutches of Lethe in order to preserve our DNA from ingestion by mogodon-saturated Galapagos tortoi, then our fulminations would become less, not more somnolent as utterance progressed.
I fear this has not been the case. ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
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shameless self promotion - because I think it's worth it
and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
pouring the perfect draught: a bartender's treatise
this one occurred to me today while swearing at the IPA at work. you'd be amazed how much my co-workers and I discuss tempermental beer.
Comet, I think you lost this game. I think there are more than a few of us who would follow this thread religiously.
![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif) you realize I'm talking about things like line thickness and length, CO2 strength, relative temperature, and coolant levels and pressures? the most fascinating bit would be the technique requirements for pale ales versus IPAs versus porters, and the difference between CO2 and nitrogen on pouring style.
Not talking the various microbrews, etc. which could be interesting.
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I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person here who can appreciate a well-poured beer.
well sure. but appreciating one and hashing over the mechanics of it are quite different!
letssee, adding to the thread one that would cure my insomnia but others might find exciting: The Video Gamer's Thread: Share your WOW cheats!
my children have discovered how to torture me into catatonia with this conversation.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Variations in character width, weight, etc. in commercially-available Courier True-Type fonts.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
pouring the perfect draught: a bartender's treatise
this one occurred to me today while swearing at the IPA at work. you'd be amazed how much my co-workers and I discuss tempermental beer.
Comet, I think you lost this game. I think there are more than a few of us who would follow this thread religiously.
you realize I'm talking about things like line thickness and length, CO2 strength, relative temperature, and coolant levels and pressures? the most fascinating bit would be the technique requirements for pale ales versus IPAs versus porters, and the difference between CO2 and nitrogen on pouring style.
Not talking the various microbrews, etc. which could be interesting.
That's exactly what I was hoping for. Yes, really.
Feeling awake? These should help!
Lichens of North America
"Why Can't I Sleep?": The Art of the Insomniac Ramble.
Ship's Book Club: The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. LXIII, no. 3 (February 2011)
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Proceed to see sea
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Glasses or bottles, which is better for drinking water?
Itching to post about mosquito bites.
The kitchen chair thread.
Why beige is a nice colour.
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Starbug
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Historical Inaccuracies I Have Noticed in 'The Tudors'
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Ceannaideach
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My favourite spades for clay soil
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"I dream of the day when I will learn to stop asking questions for which I will regret learning the answers." - Roy Greenhilt OOTS
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Ariel
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Ceannaideach, you're not watching Countryfile by any chance? ![[Biased]](wink.gif) I was just about to post "Which of the 171 kinds of spade do you have"...
Best kinds of mulch
What's your umbrella like?
Plastic, ceramic or wooden flowers?
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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If anyone is stuck for ideas, the dullest blog in the world is full of them.
What colour is your ceiling?
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Ceannaideach
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Guilty as charged Ariel ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
What particular shade of green do you prefer for liturgical purposes and why?
And the various spin off threads!
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
If anyone is stuck for ideas, the dullest blog in the world is full of them.
What colour is your ceiling?
A serious matter for newlyweds! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Starbug
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
If anyone is stuck for ideas, the dullest blog in the world is full of them.
What colour is your ceiling?
A serious matter for newlyweds!
Is 'mirror' a colour, do you think?
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Porridge
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How on earth did I manage to acquire all these toothpicks?
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Spiggott: Everything I've ever told you is a lie, including that.
Moon: Including what?
Spiggott: That everything I've ever told you is a lie.
Moon: That's not true!
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marzipan
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How long can you stare at your screen before you blink?
Telling the difference between black socks of different ages by which shade of black they are.
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Now containing 50% less cheese
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