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John is channelling Ian Sorensen, Alison is on Sydney time, and Liz has written a poem.\nPlease email your letters of comment to octothorpecast@gmail.com and use #OctothorpeCast when you post about the show on social media!\n\nLetters of comment:\n\nMax Harden tells us she listens at 3x speed, and says \u201cIf only we could speed up pub chats too\u201d.\n\nThis 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!\n\n\nDave Mansfield says he often doesn\u2019t have time to read all the BSFA nominees and thanks us for reminding him you can abandon books you dislike\nMark Plummer sent a clerihew to John which cannot be broadcast, and a triptych which can\n\nThe triptych is printed below\nLiz wrote a limerick in response to Mark\u2019s clerihew, also below\n\n\n\n\nAlison\u2019s GUFF trip has started!\n\nVideo diaries on YouTube\nGUFF trip VR playlists on YouTube\n\n\nVirtual conventions\n\nThe open letter to the CoNZealand committee signed by a number of Hugo finalists\nEurocon in 2020 \u2013 membership is \u20ac10\nMIT Puzzle Hunt\n\n\nHugo Awards\n\nAlison wrote about the Best Fancast\nIf you\u2019re looking here for a picture of Alison looking confused, I misspoke: look at the album art instead\nAnki\n\n\nAftershow\n\nAn Irish Goodbye\n\n\nOur theme music is Fanfare for Space by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC BY 3.0 license\n\nLiz\u2019s limerick\n\nThe poems of Croydon fan Plummer,\nEntertain Octothorpe for the summer.\nThough his rhymes are first class,\nThey\u2019re too rude to broadcast,\nWhich is really a bit of a bummer.\n\nMark\u2019s triptych\n\nDoctor John the boy Coxon\nDidn\u2019t notice several LOCs on\nOctothorpe because he hadn\u2019t checked\nAnd thus he failed to Mark protect\n\n\nLiz Batty (also Doctor)\nDidn\u2019t know so many people had LOCced her\nOctothorpe\u2019s a fannish gestalt\nBut in this respect it\u2019s all John\u2019s fault\n\n\nGUFF winner Alison Scott\nHas several Novas and she has also got\nTwo Hugos for the fanzine Plokta\nBut unlike John and Liz she\u2019s [Fremulon] not a doctor