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Yeah, I guess that could work too. Either way, let me know how it goes! I'm going to have a go at fish-flavoured aubergine tonight, although will be following this slightly better-looking recipe - I'll try and post pictures on N-E!

Did you hear about Magdalen changing the name of their JCR to Gryffindor? Link here if not. Someone pointed out that this makes Cambridge Durmstrang...

I guess Christchurch is the John's of Oxford then...

I've stopped failing to be in the chatroom again...

I am, albeit separated by several generations... sadly I missed the opportunity to celebrate though, what with not being employed by the water industry and all...

That's good too, although not right now as I'm going out in about half an hour - tomorrow sometime?

I know, it's terrible. And I've seen Aliens and Alien 3. Every day I vow to watch it soon.

I'll let you know when the joyous day comes. (the watching of Alien, not the eating of my family)

Sadly all didn't go to plan, but at least I managed to get up.

It would seem so... thanks!

It's not つ that doubles the following letters, it's small tsu (っ), which is used primarily for this purpose. So つも is not mmo but tsumo - mmo is っも. Incidentally you can only use small tsu after another letter, because in Japanese you can only have double letters in the middle of words. Incidentally sometimes small tsu is placed at the end of utterances, especially in things like manga, but this is a less formal convention and indicates a glottal stop, which occurs at the end of some emphasised utterances in Japanese.

No problem. If you're into reading online Japanese and use Firefox, try getting the Rikaichan extension which gives you an awesome mouseover dictionary.

Lol ok. I never understand those who spurn the foxy joys of this browser.

I mainly linked it for the amusing value. But yes, the neogrammarians are cool.

I just watched season 1 of BSG and can't help thinking of number 6 as "Ashley."