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Chit-Chat
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rumours of SwissToni's demise have been greatly exaggerated....
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cautiously? I won't bite....
SwissToni
18 yrs ago
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......much
SwissToni
18 yrs ago
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Hello.
Just swinging by to report that SwissToni is not dead. He has just been resting.
thank you.
ST
http://swisstoni.blogspot.com
currently reading: HP & the half blood prince (only one more of the seri…
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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a local forum for local people.... there's nothing for Americans here! (they're not americans Tubbs, they're monsters)
Hello all, by the way
ST
http://www.swisstoni.blogspot.com
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Olliebear in the independent
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
Hello gang,
further to the newsletter's mention that olliebear was in the Independent today, I've done a bit of digging (well, went to the site and searched for 'bookcrossing') and found the link
Here it is:
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Conventions and Meetings
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UK Unconvention, Birmingham, 1st-3rd July 2005
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hmmm - on reflection, yes
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
How do all.
Just a quick pop in to say that Frisquette and I will try to be there.... must check the diaries. It was so much fun last year that we'd be foolish to miss it this time around.
ST.
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
I feel that lately we've slipped out of touch - my fault I know - but the only news I hear from you all is what I get from Ron in his newsletters.
[pauses for comic effect]
So you need some money?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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of course I am! What did you expect?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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how do you get me to hang around?
ooooh. I'm shallow - say nice things about me!
ST
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
oooh - I'm not sure you want to know me.... I'll only disappear on you and leave you hanging.
I've been bad. It's been 4 months since my last chit-chat.
ST
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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Hello y'all.
I've been absent from these parts for some time - I'm not stopping by for very long, but thought I would pop in and say a cheery "hello" and "happy new year" to you all.
May you get everything you drea…
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
you rang?
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Swiss Toni's 'ring stuck at my place :-\ HELP !!!!!
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Re: Neither swisstoni or lechatnoir27 are answering my PMs !! What should I do ?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
ooops sorry Bilbi... do you still need me, or are you sorted now??? Sorry - I'm a bit crap really. I am around and about, honestly.
How is everyone?
ST
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
I dreamt of a woman with a hairy chest. Thankfully I have no mental images of this remaining, only the distinct impression that it happened.
[shudders]
ST.
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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> The Ryder Cup Vs. London Treasure Hunt
Was it?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
A beer fridge next to the TV. That way, when you need a beer, no one needs to miss a shot. D'you see?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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So, if I read you right, Sir Francis Drake was more your privateer-type, and Blackbeard was a pirate... or was Drake also a Buccaneer, but only when engaging the Spanish?
(we're turning into a scene from Wayne's World…
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyy Yoko!
the sedentary lifestyle has much to recommend it.
What's the difference between a pirate and a privateer anyway? And where to buccanneers fit into the equation?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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Bit late I know, but let me just say...
Tiger Woods, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Ford, John F. Kennedy, Tom Cruise, Dick Van Dyke, Babe Ruth, Tom Clancy... can you hear me Tom Clancy?
YOUR BOYS TOOK ONE HELL OF A BEAT…
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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Bugger the wings... I was thinking of canonisation myself, or at the very least beatification.... Can Ron still do that?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
my websurfing approach has changed completely in 12 hours. I'm totally addicted!
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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duuno his name. He used to have long hair, was nice with a troubled (raped?) brother and then he got disabled. I don't watch it and I knew who he was (I think, although I have yet to meet this person)
cool huh?
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
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yup!
I've got a lame claim to fame too: I'm going to the Olympics in a few weeks time with some friends, and some friends of friends. One of the f-of-fs is an actor who used to be in Hollyoaks!
no way! etc.
Chit-Chat
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What's wrong with using quotes around titles here?
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well - in some standards that's true...
SwissToni
19 yrs ago
..but not in all.
Although it's fundamentally a text based medium, the internet is actually a very chatty forum and takes on the pattern of the spoken rather than the written word. That tends to throw a lot of conven…
