Off with their heads!

0 The Queen of Hearts in "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll - one of my very favourite books, even now. She meant "decapitate" 0-

0 But she said it a lot - whenerver anyone disagreed with her! 0-

0Indeed, khoff. It is a sound principle, and one which I should be prepared to apply in a place not a million miles from here - don't you agree? 050010id5

0 Thank you very much. My computer was dead for a week or so, so I couldn't thank you before. 01i00See02i00 you 0-

0 But does this have some special meaning apart from the context of the book? 0-

0 Welcome back, Antonia - we missed you! How's the studying? 02br
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00We use it as a joking way of expressing appropriate punishment for someone! 02br
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00"The kids' room is really untidy." 02br
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0 Antonia is back! 01b00Hooray!02b00 (I'm practising my 01b00bold,02b00 01i00italics02i00 and 01u00underlining.02u00) 0-

0That's good, Khoff, or I might have to send you to Room 23 for an hour of silent contemplation! 050010id1

0 I get your gist, Abbie, but I'm not familiar with room 23. What's the reference? 0-

0 It's the pinned post which tells us how to do all the fancy text stuff. 02br
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