Monday, 14 March 2016, Pages 305 - 307

Read till "What is to be found in a dustheap?"  (307.23)

To decipher:
- "Biddy's hair, mine lubber."
- "Thou in shanty! Thou in scanty shanty!! Thou in slant scanty shanty!!!"

Monday, 7 March 2016, Pages 303 - 305

We stopped our reading at "... woolfell merger would be." (305.12)

The funniest sentence of the day:
'He prophets most who bilks the best.'

Stuff that is fun to decipher:
'... cog it out, here goes a sum.'
'Eyeinstye'

Monday, 29 February 2016, Pages 301 - 303

This Moanday, we read as far as "Eregobragh. Prouf!" (303.14)

Had fun deciphering,

• 'Ann opes tipoo soon ear!'
• 'Merrymoney thanks'
• 'Lifp year fends you all and moe, fouvenirs foft as fummer fnow, fweet willings and forget-uf-knots'

Google auto-corrected the middle part of the last sentence above as "souvenirs foot as summer now". I am glad that I saw it before I made this post public ;-)

The following sentence, on the other hand, was quite clear!
'This is Steal, this is Barke, this is Starn, this is Swhipt, this is Wiles, this is Pshaw, this is Doubbllinnbbay-yates.'

Monday, 22 February 2016, Pages 299 - 301

We stopped at "... the fear of the Law." (301.22)

Some reincarnations of the children's poem, baa baa black sheep, we found on these pages are:

Bag bag blockcheap, have you any will?
blaablaablack sheep.

Monday, 15 February 2016, Pages 298 - 299

We read as far as "... it will be a lozenge to me all my lauffe." (299.29)

Or did JJ mean to say, "... it will be a lesson to me all my life"?

There are lots of mathematical terms on page 298. For example:
vectorious, ready-eyes, circumflicksrent, searclhers, elipsities, quarrellary, logos, characteristically, mantissa, sin, cosin, consecant, cotangincies, redtangles, abscisssan, limitsing, infinisissimalls...

Qued! (Quite  Easily Done)

My Lourde! My Lourde!

Monday, 8 February 2016, Pages 296 - 298

Our reading stopped at "So post that to your pape and smarket." (298.6), which is said to mean "so put that in your pipe and smoke it."

The idea is supposed to be that the two brothers peek from underneath now that ALP's skirt is lifted. As it is dark there, they have to light a match (And light your mech) quickly (Jeldy!). In this sense, we really ended our reading with the most appropriate sentence!

Monday, 1 February 2016, Pages 295 - 296

The group continued to decipher the book and stopped at "... in the plap of the pfan. (296.22)

The following is the explanation from finwake.com
plap: to come down or fall with a flat impact, and with the sound that this makes
pfan: Pfanne (German)

This last sentence embellishes the English language using words from Armenian and Gaelic ;-)