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09-26-2005, 03:57 PM
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All's Welles that's Orwell, eh?
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09-26-2005, 06:34 PM
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OooooooooooooooooooooO *groan* That's punny!
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09-26-2005, 06:45 PM
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...and since you were the second person to make a bad pun in a row, I think everyone will agree that it is well within my rights to sic the Sequel Police on you...
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09-26-2005, 08:49 PM
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09-26-2005, 09:01 PM
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I find a pool cue works better.
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09-26-2005, 11:19 PM
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Less topical though.
I'll grant that it's rather hard to play pool with an aspidistra plant, but for beatings it's just fine as long as you lead with the pot.
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09-27-2005, 08:37 AM
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Also, Pointy, I find your choice of a shield to beat Z with interesting. Here, have a gladius  :P
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09-27-2005, 09:52 AM
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Well it's either an aspidistra or a clergyman's daughter, and I just don't have one of those to hand I'm afraid. :roll:
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09-27-2005, 01:49 PM
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What exactly is an aspidistra (aspidastra?) anyway? The only other time I've encountered the word was on a sheet of music hall music with no pictures (the song was The Biggest Aspidastra In The World, if you're wondering).
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09-27-2005, 02:28 PM
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09-27-2005, 05:05 PM
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hey and what does it taste like ??
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09-27-2005, 05:26 PM
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Like aspidistra.
a.k.a. Chicken
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09-27-2005, 06:05 PM
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Other favorite authors:
Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein Thomas Pynchon (warning: Gravity's Rainbow is a lot of work -- tread carefully) Tom Robbins Salman Rushdie (anything except "Fury" -- that was disappointing) Mark Twain (natch )Charles Dickens (a couple of clinkers, but hey ... ) Kurt Vonnegut (especially earlier stuff) James Michener (kind of invented a particular brand of historical fiction) Bruce Sterling Harlan Ellison (prefer his non-fiction, but the fiction is better than just fine)
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09-27-2005, 06:35 PM
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09-27-2005, 06:38 PM
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You needent have worried regardless - as you were the first of the two bad puns, you, the 'original', are outside the jurisdiction of the Sequel Police.
The second, the 'sequel', if you will, was actually Opium, and so she was the one I was threatening with Sequel Police.
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09-27-2005, 08:09 PM
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09-28-2005, 11:49 PM
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Just a little before my time, I'm afraid. :P
That reminds me of something, though: several years back, I was working my way through a lot of Rudyard Kipling's novels and stories, and I kept getting this Twain vibe, especially in things like Stalky and Company and Soldiers Three. Turns out that Kipling was a big fan, as Innocents Abroad and other of Twain's earlier titles were published during the time Kipling was growing up. As described in Kipling's From Sea to Sea, years later, he was traveling from India to England the long way around (heading east instead of west) and actually went to Elmira, New York and looked up Samuel Clemens at home.
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09-29-2005, 01:49 AM
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(Come to think of it, so did Harry Turtledove.)
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09-29-2005, 05:30 AM
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He did live there for a couple of years, when he was younger. He wrote for a couple of San Francisco newspapers in 1863-64. At any time after that, he would simply have been passing through, and did so on at least two occasions, that I'm aware of.
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