10: We’re Gonna Turn the Virus Off for an Hour

John is channelling Ian Sorensen, Alison is on Sydney time, and Liz has written a poem.

Please email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media!

• Letters of comment:
  • Max Harden tells us she listens at 3x speed, and says “If only we could speed up pub chats too”.
    • This gives John the idea for a panel show; have people listen to podcasts at various speeds, see how much they understood, and then have them drink alcohol and repeat!
  • Dave Mansfield says he often doesn’t have time to read all the BSFA nominees and thanks us for reminding him you can abandon books you dislike
  • Mark Plummer sent a clerihew to John which cannot be broadcast, and a triptych which can
    • The triptych is printed below
    • Liz wrote a limerick in response to Mark’s clerihew, also below
• Alison’s GUFF trip has started!
  • Video diaries on YouTube
  • GUFF trip VR playlists on YouTube
• Virtual conventions
  • The open letter to the CoNZealand committee signed by a number of Hugo finalists
  • Eurocon in 2020 – membership is €10
  • MIT Puzzle Hunt
• Hugo Awards
  • Alison wrote about the Best Fancast
  • If you’re looking here for a picture of Alison looking confused, I misspoke: look at the album art instead
  • Anki
• Aftershow
  • An Irish Goodbye
• Our theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license

Liz’s limerick

• The poems of Croydon fan Plummer,
• Entertain Octothorpe for the summer.
• Though his rhymes are first class,
• They’re too rude to broadcast,
• Which is really a bit of a bummer.

Mark’s triptych

• Doctor John the boy Coxon
• Didn’t notice several LOCs on
• Octothorpe because he hadn’t checked
• And thus he failed to Mark protect

• Liz Batty (also Doctor)
• Didn’t know so many people had LOCced her
• Octothorpe’s a fannish gestalt
• But in this respect it’s all John’s fault

• GUFF winner Alison Scott
• Has several Novas and she has also got
• Two Hugos for the fanzine Plokta
• But unlike John and Liz she’s [Fremulon] not a doctor