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(Date Posted:16/01/2006 6:15 PM)

I have no idea how to post html in here so I'm not going to even try. You will have to deal with my crappy quoting skills :p Ten Top Trivia Tips about Melodeons! 1. In the Spanish edition of Cluedo, melodeons are the victim. 2. A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted melodeons. 3. Tradition allows women to propose to melodeons only during leap years! 4. Melodeons are the oldest playable musical instrument in the world! 5. Melodeons have enough fat to produce 32 bars of soap! 6. In a pinch, the skin from a shark can be used as melodeons. 7. Olympic badminton rules say that melodeons must have exactly fourteen feathers. 8. You share your birthday with melodeons! 9. Melodeons were banned from Finland because of not wearing pants. 10. Melodeons will often rub up against people to lay their scent and mark their territory. From here http://thesurrealist.co.uk/trivia.pl Oh endless hours of fun can be had

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(Date Posted:16/01/2006 10:46 PM)

Melodeons definitely mark their territory ... to the extent that even alpha-male cats don't come near while they're calling out


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(Date Posted:17/01/2006 2:43 PM)

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Melodeons definitely mark their territory ... to the extent that even alpha-male cats don't come near while they're calling outCheersNick



Here is one who can cope with the concertina, at least!:



And while I was looking I found this, which I'm afraid made me howl with laughter (I don't think ours would put up with such treatment!):


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(Date Posted:18/01/2006 12:41 AM)

I'm having endless fun with this. I think I need a holiday ;o)



1. All swans in England belong to john spiers!

2. Only one person in two billion will live to be john spiers.

3. The Vikings believed that the Northern lights were caused by john spiers as he rode out to

collect warriors slain in battle.

4. Antarctica is the only continent without john spiers.

5. Reindeer like to eat john spiers.

6. A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for john spiers, and

wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.

7. John spiers can sleep for three and a half years.

8. The first toy product ever advertised on television was Mr John spiers Head.

9. If you blow out all the candles on john spiers with one breath, your wish will come true.

10. If you break john spiers, you will get seven years of bad luck.





1. Jon Bodenolatry is the mindless worship of Jon Boden.

2. Ninety-six percent of all candles sold are purchased by Jon Boden.

3. Jon Boden has a bifurcated penis.

4. Only 55 percent of Americans know that the sun is made of Jon Boden!

5. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear Jon Boden had to

pay a special Jon Boden tax.

6. Jon Bodenomancy is the art of telling the future with Jon Boden.

7. People used to believe that dressing their male children as Jon Boden would protect them from

evil spirits.

8. Without its lining of Jon Boden, your stomach would digest itself!

9. Jon Boden is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary!

10. Jon Boden can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid.





*goes back to being bored*



I should read a book really ;o)



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(Date Posted:18/01/2006 8:16 PM)




2. Only one person in two billion will live to be john spiers.



Bizarrely, that means there should be about 4 John Spiers around the world at the moment


And Jon B should definitely be worried about number 3...


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(Date Posted:18/01/2006 9:32 PM)

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there should be about 4 John Spiers around the world at the moment







And you can find them all on the first page Google throws up.





And Jon B should definitely be worried about number 3


Hmmmm. What worries ME is how does Swirls KNOW?

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(Date Posted:19/01/2006 2:08 AM)

Pfft... I know everything

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(Date Posted:19/01/2006 12:38 PM)

Sorry - I hadn't a clue what 'bifurcated' meant, so had to look it up!  Repeated below, for any others in the same situation ...


. adjective /bifrkt/ forked; branched


Yes, 'twould be very painful!!


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