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The warm rain was making temporary craters in the red mud as I trudged to where the yellow flowers, their petals waving angrily at the storm, were surrounded by the stark contrast of the blue and white Police Incident tape, the ends of which flapped maniacally in warning.
"Daffodils?" I said to the young constable, visibly shivering in the moonlight.
"Sir, yes sir!" He'd been watching too many American army movies. I played along.
"At ease, soldier"
I surveyed the scene. It was obvious someone had taken care with this site - the third we'd found. I knew we'd find no evidence - no prints, nothing. This guy was meticulous. Just a circular copse of flowers, neatly planted and mulched. It was the mulch that was the problem.
Red and glutinous, with hair mixed in with starkly white pieces of bone.
"Anything new?" I asked the young copper - expecting a sad shake of the head. I did a double-take that Dean Martin would have been proud of, as the constable replied "Just this, Sir. Looks like he dropped it when he was disturbed."
I looked to where his hand pointed; rainwater pouring off the end of his finger toward the chain.
A clue at last!
The chain was heavy, looked new. About four feet long. And covered in a macabre mess of matted fur and gut.
"Looks like he killed 'em here, then spread 'em" I mumbled to myself.
"Sir?" asked the still shaking copper "Can I ask you something?"
"Go ahead, son"
"Well, Sir, why Daffodils? I mean, don't you usually get Tulips from hamster jam?"
Time seemed to freeze. Two and two suddenly stated to add up to four again.
In this stormy copse in Fig Tree Pocket I'd finally solved the case; now I just needed to prove it.
It's too dangerous for me to reveal the culprit in writing - but I'll leave a clue...
Mixed up chain murders reveal the suspect (5, 7)
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Mixed up chain murders reveal the suspect
Arch Nude Rims?
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Tea-Dunked Arrowroot biscuit all over my monitors  
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They're supposed to be good for your digestion, but I think you're doing it wrong.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I hope so! The small pieces in the back of the nasal passage a remarkably painful
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Excellent !
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Drumena Shirc wiped the drool off the left side of her right mouth with one of her posterior tentacles, and sniffed the air for fresh hydrogen sulfide.
A cloud of memories swarmed around her, feasting on her temporary lapse of full vigilance, rubbing their wings together to make that collective buzz their genes told them might prolong their opportunity to be alive again:
That night in Toronto pushed its way to the front of the relive-me queue with the force of a skidding boulder in an mud-avalanche:
The steaming-hot server-room: a man who called himself "Chris," sweating over sparking ethernet cables: his mind crowded with memories competing to become his reality:
He was tired, he limped over to an office chair, wiped the sweat off his brow with the back of his arm: took out his wallet out of his back-pocket, carefully picked out the small laminated plastic card with the ... now turned brown ... piece of a fig-leaf preserved for so many years: held it up to the flourescent light as if ...
That last day he spent with her, the farewell picnic, the mystery of the long silences, and the intense eyes-locked-on-to-each-other moments that seemed to create the saddest music in the world. Yes, he went back to that fig-tree they sat under ... a year later ... back to take a single leaf, and he carried that with him ... always.
And, then, the singularity, the rapture, the fading of the illusion of Toronto: the dry quarks of what was the dream named "Chris Maunder and the mystery of the fig-leaf in his pocket" falling aside like the chitinous debris of an insect that kept crashing itself against a brilliant streetlight:
A shudder. A quivering in a gelatinous mass of space-time:
Drumena Shirc belched, and the sand towers of Jopdorcetec shook while the half-fed memories instinctively scattered into the six directions in each of eight dimensions.
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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bryce wrote: Fig Tree Pocket
Is that anything like an Alabama Hot Pocket*?
*DNG!
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Chris Maunder was a very clever fellow; his friends thought he was quite sharp.
In fact, he became known as C sharp.
One day one of them came to him with a problem - he had reason to believe that
some people were talking about him behind his back.
"What makes you think that?", said C#. "Because they often talk about
exchanging information among themselves via the 'Fig Tree Pocket' method."
What on earth could that be?
"That's an easy one", said C#. "When I showed them how to use FTP, they
asked me what 'FTP' stood for, and being in a whimsical mood, I said
Fig Tree Pocket."
73
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Damn, thought Chris as he pondered the mystery of how someone had guessed his latest password was "FigTreePocket" for root access.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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The World Hunters: The Lost Hunters a Google eBook: Mystery of The Fig Tree Pocket. Take a look here with a Google search.
Chris could be one of the World Hunters too.
Not as exotic an answer as others but maybe useful.
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
modified 11-Nov-14 6:53am.
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I welcome him back to the Bonus Round!
But no, I am on the OG's side.
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Damn! Chris didn't manage to enable the "Protector Head-Shot" yet, either...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've heard that the bot can type faster than his shadow...
*Grabs torch and pitchfork* -
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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And I'm on my tablet at the moment, and page loading is too slow to stand a chance to keeping up - I'll have to let someone else have a go! Assuming Chris doesn't clean it up when he gets up in the morning - that's probably not far off now in Oz.
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Seems he did, or someone did.
All the comments are deleted and it seems he hasn't posted any new ones in a 20 min so...
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Excellent!
So, what's the new name going to be?
DeketelaereBot?
MaunderBot?
ElephantWitBot?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Elephantbot would hint that it's someone that's been around for a while.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I get the feeling it is: they've clearly had a good hard look at the site.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I get the same feeling.
At the very least it took the time to find out who deleted his last spam spree so...
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And even spoofed the profile picture 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Question just remains: Why?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Could be they are just ***-holes, could be they are testing for the real run.
Or they could just be determined to get huge numbers of rep points without actually working for them.
I'm sure we will find out in time... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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