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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/615",
    "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it.  Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.",
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  "thread": {
    "id": 615,
    "subject": "Five Dog Knight, aka Casting Couch",
    "messages": 3,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "1998-05-14T07:43:59+00:00",
    "last": "1998-05-14T12:10:35+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0036@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Alice Turner",
        "address": "al at interport.net"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-14T07:43:59+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Five Dog Knight, aka Casting Couch",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "text": "Okay, there seems to be a consensus on Sir John as Palaemon. Can we then\ngive Malrubius to Sir Alec and Old Valeria to Dame Maggie? And is Sir Ralph\nstill with us?--he could be memorable as the somewhat slimy Gurloes. And Sir\nDerek IS the Autarch--I could kick myself for overlooking him even as a\nmomentary lapse.\n\n(The Brightest Stars in the Aristocratic Firmament Set This Epic Adventure\nAblaze.)\n\nBut fie on the foul felon who proposed Nicholas Cage as Silk. That's a\nterrible idea. Everybody loves Silk. Does everybody love Nick Cage? Does\n*anybody* love Nick Cage? I'm sure O'Leary will back me up when I put myself\n100% behind Leo, Leo, Leo.\n\n-alga-"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Stephenson",
        "address": "pws at ifh.de"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-14T12:10:35+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Five Dog Knight, aka Casting Couch",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0011-0036@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "\"Alice Turner\" wrote:\nAnd is Sir Ralph\nstill with us?--he could be memorable as the somewhat slimy Gurloes."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Alas not, so he'd better be Malrubius :-)\n\nThat reminds me, I missed out two from my anti-list\n\nMalrubius:  Leslie Nielsen\nTriskele:   ALF"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "(The Brightest Stars in the Aristocratic Firmament Set This Epic Adventure\nAblaze.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Well, more sort of `knightly' rather than `aristocratic'.  If Larry were\nstill around, he could do a cameo of the Pancreator, say.  Maybe you could\nhire a stately home for the House Absolute.  Chatsworth would do.\n\npws"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0011-0039@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Peter Westlake",
        "address": "peter at harlequin.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "1998-05-14T11:12:13+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) Five Dog Knight, aka Casting Couch",
      "in_reply_to": "<urth-v0011-0038@digest.urth.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 07:43 1998-05-14 -0400, alga wrote:\nBut fie on the foul felon who proposed Nicholas Cage as Silk. That's a\nterrible idea. "
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "It is, isn't it? Mind you, Sissy Spacek as Dorcas was a bit off, too :-)\nMucor, I grant you.\n\nAs for the Hitchhiker's Guide - but that's a Long Sun idea, and a\nvery silly one too. I shall post it to Whorl instead. It's been\nrather quiet lately.\n\n -- Spectacled bear.\n\nPeter Westlake, Harlequin Ltd, Barrington Hall, Barrington, Cambs CB2 5RG."
        }
      ]
    }
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