Just to make up for the last post ...

Hi.

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  1. Lane Savant6/3/10 14:05

    Guten jour, come esta you

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  2. Deborah6/3/10 14:17

    ......

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  3. Sharon6/3/10 18:18

    Hah!

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  4. Martin7/3/10 00:55

    Greetings!

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  5. Fran Hill7/3/10 05:45

    Lane - I don't speak whatever language that is, but I hope it means, 'There'll be a cheque in the post for a million quid tomorrow morning.'

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  6. Fran Hill7/3/10 05:46

    Deborah - ...................... (beat you)

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  7. Fran Hill7/3/10 05:47

    Sharon - Indeed!

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  8. Fran Hill7/3/10 05:47

    Martin - Konnichiwa (Japanese - are you impressed?)

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  9. Jinksy7/3/10 06:38

    Silence is supposed to be golden, but single words are purgatory - where have all your others gone? Here's to verbal diarrhoea, says I! x

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  10. Lizzie Love7/3/10 06:51

    So you got the free Guardian booklet of rudimentary Japanese too, did you?

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  11. Fran Hill7/3/10 08:07

    I have to say, jinksy, I guess I'd rather have verbal diarrhoea than any other type ... mind you, with the number of liquorice allsorts I've eaten today, who knows?

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  12. Fran Hill7/3/10 08:08

    Lizzie Love - no, I didn't, though I wish I'd known about it. Daughter at uni studying Japanese. Husband at home studying Japanese. I only know the one word. Not that I feel inadequate or anything ...

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  13. Fran Hill7/3/10 08:14

    Hey guys - I'm loving this string of comments on my one-word blog post. It appeals to the sense of the ridiculous in me (which seems to be my dominant feature ... something went wrong there).

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  14. Deborah7/3/10 12:49

    But your sense of ridiculous is why we're all here in the first place! Well, speaking for myself, at least.

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  15. Fran Hill7/3/10 13:55

    Deborah - thanks so much! Stay around then. I can't see things getting sensible anytime soon.

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  16. Moptop7/3/10 14:13

    "Far too short. 's not fair!" said Moptop darkly ...

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  17. Lesley7/3/10 15:00

    "Goodness, I'm glad you turned around before they snapped your photo, Moptop" said Lesley brightly ...

    (tee hee - just keeping the ridiculous string going)

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  18. Jinksy7/3/10 15:19

    Let idiocy rule! It's irresistible - just like liquorice allsorts...

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  19. Fran Hill8/3/10 10:51

    Moptop - 'Sorry about the shortness of it,' she said, briefly.

    Lesley - that's right, just keep it going. It's what makes the world go round.

    Jinksy - let it rule, yay! Man the barricades. Hoist the mainsail.

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  20. Doctor FTSE20/3/10 11:31

    Hi-gher!

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