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		<title>Farmers In The Coalition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to J Edgar Hoover in his 1958 book Masters Of Deceit, “Farmers In The Coalition” is a “typical” title of the kind of Mimeographed pamphlet issued to Communist study groups in the United   States during the 1950s. “Written in a simple style and slanted to the average reader”, these publications were used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eggs, Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is quite some time since I have heard from Dr Ruth Pastry, but at last she has broken her silence. Here is her letter:
Dear Mr Key : Last week I read your postage Poultry Yards Of The Grand Archdukes and, though I was not impressed, I could not help but be intrigued by your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pancake Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This piece ought to have appeared on Tuesday. Mea culpa.]
Dobson adored Pancake Day. Every year, in the weeks leading up to Shrove Tuesday, he grew ever more hot-brained and excitable, gathering sacks of flour, carrying out repeated Orwellian egg counts, and begging Old Farmer Frack for churns of milk from the mad old rustic&#8217;s cow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Thousand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today there is cause for celebration. No, not the Muggletonian Great Holiday, that was last week. The reason for unbridled cheer is that what you are reading is the one thousandth postage at Hooting Yard since the site was rejigged at the beginning of 2007. (I cannot recall precisely how many postages appeared in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wilf</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Frank, writes Tim Thurn, who has taken to calling himself Tim Thurn Of That Ilk, I assume in a desperate attempt to lend himself some gravitas, I was intrigued to read in your account of the Old Farmer Frack Memorial Essay Contest that the judges would include Wilf Self, Wilf Amis, and Wilfette Winterson. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Favourite Pigsty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title for this year&#8217;s Old Farmer Frack Memorial Essay has been announced. Entrants will be challenged to write fifty thousand words under the heading &#8220;My Favourite Pigsty&#8221;. This follows on from previous years where there was terrific interest in subjects such as &#8220;My Favourite Cow Byre&#8221;, &#8220;My Favourite Hen Coop&#8221;, and &#8220;Startle the poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Branch Line Less Travelled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I receive letters from readers asking me to give some account of the geography of Hooting Yard and its hinterland. I have a standard reply to such requests, which is to say that through diligent study of the writings you could draw a map yourself. It would involve very close reading, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Farmer Frack&#8217;s Haircut</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Old Farmer Frack usually cut his own hair, hacking at it with a pair of shears, but one day he left his cows in the care of a hired urchin and strode to the nearest village to seek out a barber. There was no barber in the village, so Old Farmer Frack carried on along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend Of The Golden Pig</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/418</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 09:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The circumstances in which I first heard the legend of the golden pig were oddly similar to those of the Sermon on the Mount. Crushed in a multitude, I followed a beardy man up on to a hillock, and sat down and listened to him speak&#8230; well, more or less. There were two or three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Com</title>
		<link>http://hootingyard.org/archives/333</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Key</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One might think we had enough coms to be going on with. We already have sitcoms and romcoms and divcoms and dotcoms &#8211; respectively, situation comedies, romantic comedies, The Divine Comedy by Dante, and comedies about dotterels, the small wading bird of the plover family which breeds in the arctic tundra. So it might be [...]]]></description>
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