Fanfic mimetic art, ISPs, desert islands, crossword

[davewitley]

Tabouli:
> Given the discussion of fanfic of late, and David's comment that 
none of the fanfics could possibly be confused with the Real McCoy 
JKR style

Steady on!  I have hardly read any fanfic - what I said was true for 
the limited sample I have looked at.

>Now, I'm looking into the possibility of working out how to use my 
ISP to connect to the Net from my father's computer 

Does he have a reasonably modern PC?  You might be able to configure 
Dial-up networking (in My Computer) to do the trick.  My ISP has a 
web-page of instructions for that (for them), but I found that all 
the radio buttons, check boxes etc were pretty well correct already.  
So if you double-click Make New Connection and follow the 
instructions (you will need their phone no) it might just work with 
the default values. Perhaps John knows what to do if he has a Mac.

>As she does so, she is briefly distracted by a blurred Anglo-Danish 
figure plummeting by, plunging into the sea, and swimming furiously 
for the mainland, gurgling mysteriously about record collections.
> 
Hm. I might be persuaded to stop for the Two Toms.  Do I have to 
explain Desert Island Discs?  Obviously not the globe-spanning 
phenomenon the BBC would hope for.  On this radio programme, a 
celebrity is asked to choose their eight favourite records, a book 
(not the Bible or Shakespeare) and a luxury, all based on the 
implausible conceit that they are to be marooned on a desert island 
with a record player (no doubt now a DVD) and unlimited food and 
basic facilities of life.

JKR did do her stint, and I did listen to it, but I can't remember 
the music or her book or her luxury, or much of what she said, except 
that there wasn't anything not widely published elsewhere: no, she 
was poor but not *that* poor in the cafe, the train journey was from 
Euston not Kings Cross, that kind of thing.

>Tabouli, who has figured out all of David's evil crossword clues 
except 4 across, which she thinks is Ebony but cannot for the life of 
her figure out how this is derived from "spinning wren"...

No, it's not Ebony.  I thought all the answers were on the island, 
but a quick search shows I am wrong - but certainly no prominent 
shippers.

David, thinking Cock Robin never got to Oz...