Granma? You’re reading the Cuban Communist Party paper?
(Note: still no denial of evil intentions regarding Cornish fudge.)
Well, he’s already got designs on Jennyrosity anyway, so why not her fudge?
Why the heck not, I suppose? Is “Cornish fudge” some sort of Brit slang euphemism for something I’m too young to hear about in mixed company?
Not that I’m aware of, but then, if it is, I’m probably far too sweet and innocent to know about it.
because its an abbreviation of Tir Tinuvel
I’ll be there from 12:30 as will, i believe, the simian from the north.
I haven’t made it through the whole book yet, but don’t you only need an apostrophe if there are letters after the ones you’re leaving out? In the same word, I mean?
feck knows. I’m not the Apostrophe Police
But its not like “Tir” is her first name and “Tinuvel” her second - the whole thing is her board-name so i can see why there is one used.
Yeah, but I’ve seen her spell it as Tir` before… So I don’t think its actually an apostrophe…
Well, I’ve certainly been accused of punctuational pedantry before; guilty as charged. I just consider it job security. But those of you who are as uptight about these matters as I am may discover the word of a kindred spirit in an author who can start her introduction as follows:
*Either this will ring bells for you, or it won’t. A printed banner has appeared on the concourse of a petrol station near to where I live. “Come inside,” it says, “for CD’s, VIDEO’s, DVD’s, and BOOK’s.”
If this satanic sprinkling of redundant apostrophes causes no little gasp of horror or quickening of the pulse, you should probably put down this book at once. By all means congratulate yourself that you are not a pedant or even a stickler; that you are happy to live in a world of plummeting punctuation standards; but just don’t bother to go any further. For any true stickler, you see, the sight of the plural word “Book’s” with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar to the stages of bereavement, though greatly accelerated. First there is shock. Within seconds, shock gives way to disbelief, disbelief to pain, and pain to anger. Finally (and this is where the analogy breaks down), anger gives way to a righteous urge to perpetrate an act of criminal damage with the aid of a permanent marker.”*
That, and the book is dedicated “to the memory of the striking Bolshevik printers of St Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution.”
Now how could one go wrong by taking such learned advice to heart?
Is the meet-up time 12 noon or 1pm? I’ve been trying to skim thru the thread and there seems to be some variance.
For those who haven’t been to The Chandos before, it may be worth pointing out that it has a non-obvious upstairs bit, which is probably where the Dopers will be as downstairs gets filled up first and upstairs has more seating. Ask the staff where the stairs are and they’ll tell you.
Question for Angua - what would I have to offer you as a suitable bribe to get some rugelach (chocolate flav)? And are white-chocolate cookies totally out of the question? And will you be flashing underwear?
Because there is an apostrophe after Tir in Tolkien’s Elvish used in Lord of the Rings.
Berserker: Mime is money.
Oh my goodness, I seem to have lost my geek credentials. But then I was never fluent in Elvish, unlike some of my friends, who used to pass notes in class in Elvish (so that if the teacher caught them in the act, she couldn’t read the notes out loud to the class). Still, I thought I’d paid enough LOTR geek dues to last a lifetime. Must go back and re-read…
12:30. A happy compromise.
Hmmm… I’ll have to think about that one…
No, they’re not. But good job you asked today.
Not in public. 
The Plan:
We’re meeting in the Chandos, just off Trafalgar Square from 12:30 onwards.
Maps and useful information are here.
We will probably be moving on to a different pub at some point in the proceedings, but this has not been decided yet. And if we do, it will probably be in the evening at some point.
I think that’s it really. Oh, and that I can be bribed to bake rugelach and white chocolate chip cookies.
If anyone wants contact numbers, email.
I have ‘Eats, Shoots and Leaves’ - I bought it on Monday and read the whole thing through a nine-hour wait at the doctor’s. I can bring it on Saturday and lend it anyone who wants it.
Nine hours? NINE hours??! What were you waiting for, a cure for cancer?
Garius - can you remember to bring that CD we discussed on Tuesday? I have those CM patches ready to go, plus the other bits and pieces.
Well, the rugelach and white chocolate chip cookies are baked, and they taste good. 
You’ll have to bribe me to hand them over, or find some way to distract me and swipe them.
And I’ve gone out today and got a box of “Assorted Clotted Cream Fudge”. It’s Plymouthian, rather than Cornish though. Well, it has a picture of Plymouth on the front - it was probably made in Milton Keynes, or somewhere.
Assorted you say? In what way?
And anyone had any ideas as to how they’re going to pry the cookies and rugelach out of my hands?