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I'm sorry to say that CoS Forums is going to shut down in the Summer, sometime around July. This isn't an early April Fools joke either.

The Forums have become quite expensive to run and manage. There's a lot (LOT) less traffic coming to the site these days as Harry Potter becomes less of a topical debate for people.

I held on for a while after the last film, wondering whether JK would announce anything surprising, but I find that even if she did it wouldn't serve to help the diminishing numbers on the site or my bank balance!

Myself, I've been absent a lot more in the past year as personal issues have taken over and I've had to work longer hours, to earn more money to keep the forums going as well as pay for things like rent, utilities and god knows what else.

Some of you will be sad and I'm sure others will be happy. I'm not doing this lightly and I could have closed the site last year but held off. I know this may upset some of you who've come to see this place as a haven with friends and I'm very sorry it has to go but I've kept this place going with money out of my own pocket for 10 years now and it's no longer financially viable to do so. Please understand that this is not an easy decision!

Some of you may wish to offer to help, to donate or even take on the site. Whilst I would listen to any suggestions, I will not accept donations as this would be unsustainable in the long-term. If you wanted to take on CoS, be aware that you would need to find $200 per month and to be honest with you all I'm not sure I'm prepared to let the site be taken over by anyone. I've created a thread for comments. The other staff know only as much as the above. There is no Plan B as far as they are concerned, so do not pester them for answers to questions. If they do not know, they are being totally honest.

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Old January 11th, 2011, 10:07 pm
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Re: Holiday Calendar 2010
If anyone would like to try their hand at some other picture riddles, here are links to a few I posted in the Riddle Thread over the years. The solutions are all in the thread... somewhere

Puzzle 1 - Who should be where the question mark is?



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Puzzle 2 - What is being represented here, and how many sorts are there?



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Puzzle 3 - What is missing, and why?



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Inspired by a case of using online translators discussed recently somewhere else than CoS I hereby give you the translation of the saying which tells that today is the end of Christmas.

Twentieth Knut Christmas run out And if I put the words of the original text in a grammatically more correct order I get Twentieth Knut running out of Christmas That one is even better, me thinks.

And I'm not telling you what the original text is. Or even what language.


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Things become clearer


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It does neither help my coffee nor my pc screen that I know the original language and the event which made you use an online dictionary first hand, Alastor.

I wonder if that Knut fellow likes eggs.


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I'm afraid any connection between that Knut and eggs is passé. He was assassinated in 1131. So it's a while ago.
 
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