Coding up the Dishwasher & new hanging offence...

[Talisman]

--- In HPFGU-Catalogue at yahoogroups.com, "carolynwhite2" 
<carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> Right, I've just spent an exhaustive time in the real archives, ie 
> the horror that is Yahoo!Mort, and I have forced it to yield up a 
>lot of numbers relating to MD. <snip> So, to save money on time-
>wasting trials, and get maximum value out of the length of rope I 
>have purchased, cataloguing edict #20708938397983 is that everyone 
>will sit down with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit (as recommended 
>by Pip), and read....and read <snip>

Say Carolyn, those are some fetching Y-shaped scars you've got 
there.  Congrats on surviving the curses of the Archive. 

And, my, my, my, what a lot of rope.  Did I mention <gulp> a gypsy 
once warned me of death on the gallows?  Seems to have something to 
do with these little x's at the base of my middle fingers. 
I've never really cared for slip knots, since.

So then, we'll just set the rope down, shall we? And allow me to 
thank you properly for organizing this MD review. Obviously it's
a great theory and worthy of special consideration.

I've occasionally recognized that I should reread it, specifically 
with regard to it's legacy impact, and I welcome the chance to do so 
now.

I'm not quite sure I give it credit for every "DD has a
plan" post. After all, the Trio suspected as much by the end of book 
one--albeit with a rather smaller "p."  

Still, there is no doubt that most readers felt DD was losing 
control as the series progressed, and MD, especially in it's early 
iterations, snapped him right back into the thick of things, with an 
expanded view of his reach. 

As you've shown, it generated an enormous flood of responsive
posts and energized the list for months.  Indeed, a fair portion of 
the nostalgia folks feel for the "good old days" can probably be
laid at it's feet. 

But, if I recall correctly, there are any number of qualifications, 
and even a change of course in part the third, that may leave MD 
with palpable limitations, after all. 
 
The question of whether MD is the mother of all things after, or 
more a step in a progression, is obviously relevant to the scope of 
posts that will be coded to the theory as we move forward. I'll 
enjoy taking a closer look at this, along with other reviewers, and 
coming to conclusions, joint or several.  

Whatever I decide, I will, of course, defer to the will of the 
Catalogue, for coding purposes.  So you see...heh...there's
really no need to coil it like that.  

As for Kneasy's alternating inches, why he's a perfectly
lovely scoundrel. 

That's why we like to play with him.

Talisman, grinning and offering to light the gasper.