I believe Solomon had a workable solution
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Which way would one cut`? through the middle or top down?
I always thought as a child, reading from me Children’s Bible (wiv pictures - which on the whole were disappointing), that Solomon was going for just above the nappy. Whereas cleaving the Piply skull in twain would be FUN.
Come on, it would.
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I always assumed it was a longitudinal cut; that way both women would get more or less the same.
With Pip, I’d work upwards, so she could watch.
And very slowly…
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“No, Miss Archer, I expect you to die.”
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Bugger - I was just typing that when you posted!
Of course, there’s the slight problem that you’d cut through the, er, seat of consciousness with the first incision…
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I’m glad you have given the matter some serious thought.
…I think
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I have frequently pondered this at great length.
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You will have to double your pondering, it seems to me. Phoebe is at least a foul a menace as Pip. Are the ditches of Borsetshire enough to contain both sets of remains, unfound, for a decent interval?
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I’m sure we can find a few culverts…
And I agree—Pheeble is definitely Pip Mk II
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Poo lagoons, I tell 'ee. There be plenty of room for more secrets there.
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Why, yes, of course, you sagacious Bird. Where better to hide a piece of hay than in a haystack, after all?
< gus kept it clean. Is this the End of Days? >
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The difference seems to me to be that Phoebe is faintly inclined to be honest; Pip would not recognise honesty if it bit her on the bum, and her first instinct, like that of her cousin Lily, is to lie about things. Each of them has caused Phoebe trouble by her incontinent improbity, now I come to think of it.
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After all, she has the Terrible Example of her mother.
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And unless I remember incorrectly, Phoebe joined in with Liy’s little scheme at first, before one of those stomach-churning dad-daughter moments anent Dad’s New Romantic Object.
Phoebe is a poor advertisement for Oxford. She is a worse one for reproducing at all.Tedious, whiny, conniving little twerp.
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Yes, trying to wheedle insider information out of Great-Gran was not her finest hour. Still, I give her points for telling Pip off. As regards Lily telling Roy the pregnancy test was Lexi’s (that’s what she didn’t she?) I have a feeling Lily just blurted it out and Phoebe privately protested to Lily later. Was that when Lily said words to the effect that Lexi was ‘just a picker’.
But Phoebe didn’t correct the misapprehension until later.
I haven’t looked it up and I often get details wrong but I do remember thinking Lily the worse of the pair.
Oh, and just to add: all of Phoebe’s complaints about Pip’s behaviour at the meeting the other day were fully justified in my opinion and shame on Rex for not backing her up. Weasel.
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He’s hardly a fine example of not thinking gonads-first himself.
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Besides, his gonads are aching for Peeeep, not the infantile Phoebe. Because brothers at odds over some woman who isn’t worth tuppence ha’penny hasn’t been done before, after all…
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Rex is really wet. Lets Pip walk all over him. And I’m disappointed in Toby. I was hoping he’d drive her crazy with his unreliability or at least start dating some glamorous females to make her jealous (very dog in the manger is our Pip) but he seems to be under the cat’s paw as well.
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Sorry, Janie, but Phoebe sounded like a whiny and pusillanimous primary-school child to me. ‘Oooo, what will Your Mum say?’
This useless lump of flesh is meant to be an Oxford graduate.
It would be nice if she has failed, horribly, and is trying to keep a pretence up, and then when she is PubliclyShamed and Revealed she goes off to drown herself in whatever bit of inland water is deep enough at the time. But I’m not holding me breath. Neither should she, of course.
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Oh, she is whiny, no doubt about that! But I applaud her for telling Pip off for her rude behaviour at their meeting, showing up late, not giving them her attention, constantly on the phone to Brookfield, acting as if her presence was an honour … “I left my chiyuld to be here!”
Still, serve her and Rex right for begging the rude madam to throw in her lot with them (not that she did).
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