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fisherofsouls@hotmail.com - 21 Apr 2005 16:16 GMT

At the garden centre recently, I got a fit of the giggles when I read
the following sign:

"Climbing plants have moved closer to the till."

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Peter Duncanson - 21 Apr 2005 18:26 GMT

>At the garden centre recently, I got a fit of the giggles when I read
>the following sign:
>
>"Climbing plants have moved closer to the till."

Read "THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS" by John Wyndham, and be afraid, very afraid.

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fisherofsouls@hotmail.com - 21 Apr 2005 20:38 GMT

I was a big fan of the Wyndham books as a teenager, in fact I spend
quite a few years reading little other than SF. Went off it for 20
years but started again in my 30's when I discovered Iain M. Banks. A
pearl !!

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} - 22 Apr 2005 00:41 GMT

On Thursday, in article
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> Read "THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS" by John Wyndham, and be afraid, very afraid.

No: that's HEAVY PLANT CROSSING.

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly} bhk@dsl.co.uk
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
le loisir de la faire plus courte."
Blaise Pascal, /Lettres Provinciales/, 1657

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Erick Andrews - 23 Apr 2005 01:17 GMT

> On Thursday, in article
> <fgof61tvfg3t7nagjp5smi16gpkhd606if@4ax.com>
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> > Read "THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS" by John Wyndham, and be afraid, very afraid.
>
> No: that's HEAVY PLANT CROSSING.

Yeah, but wasn't that usually near a rape field? T'was in Berkshire back when!

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