From foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid  Wed Nov  1 04:22:35 2006
From: foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid (pippin_999)
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:22:35 -0000
Subject: Part Vampires --
Message-ID: <ei97eb+nmr4@...>

You'll all be glad to know JKR has laid this burning issue to rest, so to speak.

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/wotm.cfm

I suppose Snape isn't one. But he coulda been, right?

Pippin
vindicated






From carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid  Thu Nov  2 08:12:44 2006
From: carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid (carolynwhite2)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:12:44 -0000
Subject: Part Vampires --
In-Reply-To: <ei97eb+nmr4@...>
Message-ID: <eic99s+ut1o@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:

> 
> I suppose Snape isn't one. But he coulda been, right?
> 
> Pippin
> vindicated
>

'Course he is, pull yourself together woman..
Carolyn
a true believer





From dfrankiswork at davewitley.yahoo.invalid  Thu Nov  2 12:56:25 2006
From: dfrankiswork at davewitley.yahoo.invalid (davewitley)
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:56:25 -0000
Subject: Part Vampires --
In-Reply-To: <ei97eb+nmr4@...>
Message-ID: <eicptp+j47p@...>

> Pippin
> vindicated

And the assonance between Severus Snape and sever his nape gets some 
traction from the awful name...

Now we just need clarification on whether *full* vampires count as 
part-humans for legal purposes.  Because Percy was cut off in mid 
flow, we'll probably never know.

David, sanguine





From coriolan at coriolan_cmc.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov  4 19:52:03 2006
From: coriolan at coriolan_cmc.yahoo.invalid (Caius Marcius)
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 19:52:03 -0000
Subject: Part Vampires --
In-Reply-To: <ei97eb+nmr4@...>
Message-ID: <eiir13+rhts@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> wrote:
>
> You'll all be glad to know JKR has laid this burning issue to rest, 
so to speak.
> 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/wotm.cfm
> 
Now, the question is, can anyone produce a filk titled "Necks to You"? 

    - CMC





From quigonginger at quigonginger.yahoo.invalid  Sun Nov  5 02:00:24 2006
From: quigonginger at quigonginger.yahoo.invalid (quigonginger)
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:00:24 -0000
Subject: FILK:  Necks to You
Message-ID: <eijgjo+i0n8@...>

Ask and it shall be given you.
Be careful what you wish for.

Pick the quote that best fits, but since CMC asked, what else could I 
do but answer?

Necks to You, a filk on Close to You by the Carpenters.
To CMC, of course.

Midi here:
d21c.com/1webdog/Midifiles/closetoyou.midi 

TBAY radio announcer:
Good evening, folks.  Welcome to TBAY radio, the evening edition.  We 
have a wonderful evening of news, weather and Quidditch, along with 
your favourite hits from today and yesterday.  Kaynes is out on 
assignment, but keep those fan letters coming.  He loves them.  

We'll have an update on the Wizard-hunt for Severus Snape, accused 
killer of Albus Dumbledore, and an interview with Polish Seeker, 
Josef Wronski; but first, here's Lorcan D'eath with "Necks to You".


D'eath:
Why does blood suddenly appear
Just below your left ear?
How I'd live!
What I would give!
Necks to you.

Why do I feel the urge to dine
Without food or good wine?
You're the most!
I make this toast:
Necks to you.

On the day I found you, love,
I circled in the skies above.
And waited 'til your window opened wide.
Then by light of moon 
That night in June
I stole within to be right by your side.

Garlic and crosses all around,
To my oath, I am bound:
What it takes,
Whate'er the stakes.
Necks to you.


Ginger, who just now realized that Kaynes is an anagram of Kneasy and 
really feels slow.





From katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid  Sun Nov  5 04:14:32 2006
From: katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid (Kat Macfarlane)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:14:32 -0800
Subject: [the_old_crowd] FILK:  Necks to You
References: <eijgjo+i0n8@...>
Message-ID: <002001c70090$fa8a3280$482fdcd1@...>

Oooh, that really gets my blood up!

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!

  Ask and it shall be given you.
  Be careful what you wish for.

  Pick the quote that best fits, but since CMC asked, what else could I 
  do but answer?

  Necks to You, a filk on Close to You by the Carpenters.
  To CMC, of course.

  Midi here:
  d21c.com/1webdog/Midifiles/closetoyou.midi 

  TBAY radio announcer:
  Good evening, folks. Welcome to TBAY radio, the evening edition. We 
  have a wonderful evening of news, weather and Quidditch, along with 
  your favourite hits from today and yesterday. Kaynes is out on 
  assignment, but keep those fan letters coming. He loves them. 

  We'll have an update on the Wizard-hunt for Severus Snape, accused 
  killer of Albus Dumbledore, and an interview with Polish Seeker, 
  Josef Wronski; but first, here's Lorcan D'eath with "Necks to You".

  D'eath:
  Why does blood suddenly appear
  Just below your left ear?
  How I'd live!
  What I would give!
  Necks to you.

  Why do I feel the urge to dine
  Without food or good wine?
  You're the most!
  I make this toast:
  Necks to you.

  On the day I found you, love,
  I circled in the skies above.
  And waited 'til your window opened wide.
  Then by light of moon 
  That night in June
  I stole within to be right by your side.

  Garlic and crosses all around,
  To my oath, I am bound:
  What it takes,
  Whate'er the stakes.
  Necks to you.

  Ginger, who just now realized that Kaynes is an anagram of Kneasy and 
  really feels slow.



   

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From ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid  Sun Nov  5 11:07:17 2006
From: ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid (ewe2)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:07:17 +1100
Subject: [the_old_crowd] FILK: Necks to You
In-Reply-To: <eijgjo+i0n8@...>
References: <eijgjo+i0n8@...>
Message-ID: <91d14f320611050307t44ba0ba5q44f9d221a1049d37@...>

bloody tasty :P

-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best



From fmaneely at fhmaneely.yahoo.invalid  Tue Nov  7 20:48:22 2006
From: fmaneely at fhmaneely.yahoo.invalid (fhmaneely)
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:48:22 -0000
Subject: FILK:  Necks to You
In-Reply-To: <eijgjo+i0n8@...>
Message-ID: <eiqrem+pc7o@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "quigonginger" 
<quigonginger at ...> wrote:
>
> Ask and it shall be given you.
> Be careful what you wish for.
> 
> Pick the quote that best fits, but since CMC asked, what else 
could I 
> do but answer?
> 
> Necks to You, a filk on Close to You by the Carpenters.
> To CMC, of course.
> 
> Midi here:
> d21c.com/1webdog/Midifiles/closetoyou.midi 
> 
> TBAY radio announcer:
> Good evening, folks.  Welcome to TBAY radio, the evening edition.  
We 
> have a wonderful evening of news, weather and Quidditch, along 
with 
> your favourite hits from today and yesterday.  Kaynes is out on 
> assignment, but keep those fan letters coming.  He loves them.  
> 
> We'll have an update on the Wizard-hunt for Severus Snape, accused 
> killer of Albus Dumbledore, and an interview with Polish Seeker, 
> Josef Wronski; but first, here's Lorcan D'eath with "Necks to You".
> 
> 
> D'eath:
> Why does blood suddenly appear
> Just below your left ear?
> How I'd live!
> What I would give!
> Necks to you.
> 
> Why do I feel the urge to dine
> Without food or good wine?
> You're the most!
> I make this toast:
> Necks to you.
> 
> On the day I found you, love,
> I circled in the skies above.
> And waited 'til your window opened wide.
> Then by light of moon 
> That night in June
> I stole within to be right by your side.
> 
> Garlic and crosses all around,
> To my oath, I am bound:
> What it takes,
> Whate'er the stakes.
> Necks to you.
> 
> 
> Ginger, who just now realized that Kaynes is an anagram of Kneasy 
and 
> really feels slow.

LOL, this is the song that immediately came to my mind!
Fran
>






From arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid  Thu Nov  9 22:14:40 2006
From: arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid (Barry Arrowsmith)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 22:14:40 +0000
Subject: Funny, that. (OT)
Message-ID: <F0BDAEFE-535E-45C3-AC5D-614A72C182CD@...>

Been up  to my ears in stuff over the past few months.
Stuff to the left of me, stuff to the right of me, stuff accumulating  
until capillary action threatens it'll eventually invade my chuff.

Such is reality.
Seriously in need of some light relief I browsed my bookshelves, book  
piles, book stacks, books-as-carpets -  well, you get the idea. I've  
got a lot of books - around 2,500 after the last charity shop  
donations clear-out, which was sometime last year, and a lot more  
have been bought since.

Shelf-fulls of history; shelves of political philosophy; on the  
sciences; on cookery; on wines; whodunnits; criticism (no, not the  
deconstructionist sort); whole bookcases of SF and odd handfuls of  
other subjects/authors that caught my fancy at the time. But light  
relief seemed thin on the ground.

Which was a bit of a surprise. I pride myself that I can make a joke  
of even the most inappropriate subject matter, construct  the most  
God-awful puns, play around with words to produce the unexpected  
punchline, yet the number of genuinely amusing books around the place  
were at a premium, let alone the laugh-out-loud variety. And those  
that I could find were mostly old, some written before I was born,  
hell, before the Great Depression, some of them.

Sure, there are a few modern writers with an intelligent comedic  
touch - Tom Holt, Jeffrey Fforde and the like, but my word, they seem  
thin on the ground. And yes, there're authors that throw in a joke or  
slapstick episode to change the pace, but part-timers are not what  
I'm on about, nor writers that use humour to make a point, P. J.  
O'Rouke for example.

And don't trust the reviewers. So-called laugh-a-page classics  
aren't, in my experience. Lucky Jim, Catcher in the Rye and the like  
swiftly made their way from my bookshelves to the charity shop.  
Breach of the Trade Descriptions Act IMO.

Interestingly, apart from the two authors above, those I did find  
were peculiarly English. Whether most of them would travel or  
translate well is problematical. If I give you a list you'll see what  
I mean.
The Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle,  
brilliant, as ane fule kno.
The Misleading Cases series by A. P. Herbert (all hail Haddock!),
Tales from a Long Room (and sequels) by Peter Tinniswood - for  
cricket buffs only. The Brigadier, esconced in the rural paradise of  
Whitney Scrotum, beneath the lowering fastness of Botham's Gut and  
the pee-wits twittering among the water-meadows of Cowdrey's Bottom  
spins the most outrageous cricket tales full of puns and mischievious  
character assassinations. You need a fairly comprehensive knowledge  
of first-class cricketers to understand it. A joy nonetheless.
England, their England by J. G. McDonnell (more cricket there),
A few classic SF stories, mostly shorts, though Eric Frank Russell  
managed some book-length stuff.


Eventually I settled on the Master. The one and only. Wodehouse.
Not a novel, but his golf stories.
Yes, I know - golf, how boring.
Not with P.G. it's not.
Cheered me up no end.
In the collection is what I consider to be the perfect humorous short  
story - The Clicking of Cuthbert. Written (I think) in 1919, love  
conquers all while taking the piss out of middle-class pretensions,  
Russian literature and communism. Pretty neat for a story about golf.  
And his foreword to the collection - written when he was in his  
nineties - is a demonstration of the writers craft at a level very  
few will ever aspire to while appearing to be nothing special - until  
you analyse it.

When I was younger, P.G. was on my rubbish list. Dated, trite,  
repetitive. But in my 40s I  tried him again and have never looked back.

Still, one does wonder why there are so few genuinely funny  
accomplished writers. And why no women writers in the genre? Or are  
there? Does Helen Fielding count? Or Muriel Spark with The Abbess of  
Crewe? Hmm.

Mind you, if you include unintentional belly laughs the field widens  
enormously.....

Kneasy







From foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 10 11:39:54 2006
From: foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid (pippin_999)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:39:54 -0000
Subject: Funny, that. (OT)
In-Reply-To: <F0BDAEFE-535E-45C3-AC5D-614A72C182CD@...>
Message-ID: <ej1oea+6r5b@...>

James Thurber. The Night the Bed Fell On My Father. Nothing else comes close.

Pippin






From katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 10 13:29:34 2006
From: katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid (Kat Macfarlane)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 05:29:34 -0800
Subject: [the_old_crowd] Re: Funny, that. (OT)
References: <ej1oea+6r5b@...>
Message-ID: <003601c704cc$59b62fe0$482fdcd1@...>

Oh, "The Night the Ghost Got In" (also Thurber) does!

Purrs,

Gatta


  James Thurber. The Night the Bed Fell On My Father. Nothing else comes close.

  Pippin



   

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From arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 10 15:18:44 2006
From: arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid (Barry Arrowsmith)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:18:44 -0000
Subject: Funny, that. (OT)
In-Reply-To: <003601c704cc$59b62fe0$482fdcd1@...>
Message-ID: <ej258k+kcfh@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Kat Macfarlane" <katmac at ...> wrote:
>
> Oh, "The Night the Ghost Got In" (also Thurber) does!
> 
> Purrs,
> 
> Gatta
> 
> 
>   James Thurber. The Night the Bed Fell On My Father. Nothing else comes close.
> 
>   Pippin
> 
>

Sure, I can understand Thurber having loads of fans, but it helps confirm my
suspicions.

Somebody born in 1894 is hardly one of the newer fellers, is he?

Kneasy 







From ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 10 17:22:28 2006
From: ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid (ewe2)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:22:28 +1100
Subject: [the_old_crowd] Re: Funny, that. (OT)
In-Reply-To: <ej258k+kcfh@...>
References: <003601c704cc$59b62fe0$482fdcd1@...>
	 <ej258k+kcfh@...>
Message-ID: <91d14f320611100922t353f2d9ek4121758ead3735c4@...>

On 11/11/06, Barry Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at ...> wrote:
>
> Sure, I can understand Thurber having loads of fans, but it helps confirm my
> suspicions.
>
> Somebody born in 1894 is hardly one of the newer fellers, is he?
>
> Kneasy
>

I was going to add some Twain I recently found amusing, then I thought
of '1066 and all that', and began to get depressed. Lately the
funniest book I've read is a homage to our national game, AFL
football, "origin of the speccies". Would the book of Father Ted
scripts sneak in?

ewe2, who also enjoys books on engrish

-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best



From katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov 11 01:46:32 2006
From: katmac at lagattalucianese.yahoo.invalid (Kat Macfarlane)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:46:32 -0800
Subject: [the_old_crowd] Funny, that. (OT)
References: <F0BDAEFE-535E-45C3-AC5D-614A72C182CD@...>
Message-ID: <00ee01c70533$491a9ba0$482fdcd1@...>

Your place sounds just like my place. Let's put my books up against your books and see if we can get some spontaneous regeneration. Although I may have it already. I swear I keep finding things in my bookshelves that I have no recollection of having bought.

I'm with you on modern humorists. I adore P.G. Wodehouse, also E.F. Benson (the Mapp and Lucia books), have a whole bookcase full of him. You already know I'm a Thurber fan. I still crack up over My Life and Hard Times. Then there's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written back when "gay" didn't mean what it means now. And I'm embarking this weekend on E.M. Delafield's Provincial Lady, whom I seem somehow to have missed. And of course I should reread Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I found those funny even when I was a kid in high school. To say nothing of Puddinhead Wilson.

There is hope. Connie Wilson writes some devastatingly funny stuff. Bellwether is fiction and is about science and still manages not to be science fiction; but everyone who has ever worked in the high tech industries has had a Flip in their lives. And if you haven't read To Say Nothing of the Dog, run, don't walk, to your nearest library or bookstore.

And I've learned not to keep Steven Pyle's The Incomplete Book of Failures on the back of my toilet. Too many social gatherings have been brought to an ominous silence by howls of laughter issuing from behind the closed door. And I can't help feeling that "I have a fun bathroom" is a rather feeble excuse.

Giggly purrs,

--Gatta

  Been up to my ears in stuff over the past few months.
  Stuff to the left of me, stuff to the right of me, stuff accumulating 
  until capillary action threatens it'll eventually invade my chuff.

  Such is reality.
  Seriously in need of some light relief I browsed my bookshelves, book 
  piles, book stacks, books-as-carpets - well, you get the idea. I've 
  got a lot of books - around 2,500 after the last charity shop 
  donations clear-out, which was sometime last year, and a lot more 
  have been bought since.

  Shelf-fulls of history; shelves of political philosophy; on the 
  sciences; on cookery; on wines; whodunnits; criticism (no, not the 
  deconstructionist sort); whole bookcases of SF and odd handfuls of 
  other subjects/authors that caught my fancy at the time. But light 
  relief seemed thin on the ground.

  Which was a bit of a surprise. I pride myself that I can make a joke 
  of even the most inappropriate subject matter, construct the most 
  God-awful puns, play around with words to produce the unexpected 
  punchline, yet the number of genuinely amusing books around the place 
  were at a premium, let alone the laugh-out-loud variety. And those 
  that I could find were mostly old, some written before I was born, 
  hell, before the Great Depression, some of them.

  Sure, there are a few modern writers with an intelligent comedic 
  touch - Tom Holt, Jeffrey Fforde and the like, but my word, they seem 
  thin on the ground. And yes, there're authors that throw in a joke or 
  slapstick episode to change the pace, but part-timers are not what 
  I'm on about, nor writers that use humour to make a point, P. J. 
  O'Rouke for example.

  And don't trust the reviewers. So-called laugh-a-page classics 
  aren't, in my experience. Lucky Jim, Catcher in the Rye and the like 
  swiftly made their way from my bookshelves to the charity shop. 
  Breach of the Trade Descriptions Act IMO.

  Interestingly, apart from the two authors above, those I did find 
  were peculiarly English. Whether most of them would travel or 
  translate well is problematical. If I give you a list you'll see what 
  I mean.
  The Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, 
  brilliant, as ane fule kno.
  The Misleading Cases series by A. P. Herbert (all hail Haddock!),
  Tales from a Long Room (and sequels) by Peter Tinniswood - for 
  cricket buffs only. The Brigadier, esconced in the rural paradise of 
  Whitney Scrotum, beneath the lowering fastness of Botham's Gut and 
  the pee-wits twittering among the water-meadows of Cowdrey's Bottom 
  spins the most outrageous cricket tales full of puns and mischievious 
  character assassinations. You need a fairly comprehensive knowledge 
  of first-class cricketers to understand it. A joy nonetheless.
  England, their England by J. G. McDonnell (more cricket there),
  A few classic SF stories, mostly shorts, though Eric Frank Russell 
  managed some book-length stuff.

  Eventually I settled on the Master. The one and only. Wodehouse.
  Not a novel, but his golf stories.
  Yes, I know - golf, how boring.
  Not with P.G. it's not.
  Cheered me up no end.
  In the collection is what I consider to be the perfect humorous short 
  story - The Clicking of Cuthbert. Written (I think) in 1919, love 
  conquers all while taking the piss out of middle-class pretensions, 
  Russian literature and communism. Pretty neat for a story about golf. 
  And his foreword to the collection - written when he was in his 
  nineties - is a demonstration of the writers craft at a level very 
  few will ever aspire to while appearing to be nothing special - until 
  you analyse it.

  When I was younger, P.G. was on my rubbish list. Dated, trite, 
  repetitive. But in my 40s I tried him again and have never looked back.

  Still, one does wonder why there are so few genuinely funny 
  accomplished writers. And why no women writers in the genre? Or are 
  there? Does Helen Fielding count? Or Muriel Spark with The Abbess of 
  Crewe? Hmm.

  Mind you, if you include unintentional belly laughs the field widens 
  enormously.....

  Kneasy



   

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From arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov 11 12:15:56 2006
From: arrowsmithbt at kneasy.yahoo.invalid (Barry Arrowsmith)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:15:56 -0000
Subject: Funny, that. (OT)
In-Reply-To: <00ee01c70533$491a9ba0$482fdcd1@...>
Message-ID: <ej4ets+7t28@...>

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Kat Macfarlane" <katmac at ...> wrote:
>
> Your place sounds just like my place. Let's put my books up against your books and see 
if we can get some spontaneous regeneration. Although I may have it already. I swear I 
keep finding things in my bookshelves that I have no recollection of having bought.
> 
> I'm with you on modern humorists. I adore P.G. Wodehouse, also E.F. Benson (the Mapp 
and Lucia books), have a whole bookcase full of him. You already know I'm a Thurber fan. I 
still crack up over My Life and Hard Times. Then there's Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, 
written back when "gay" didn't mean what it means now. And I'm embarking this weekend 
on E.M. Delafield's Provincial Lady, whom I seem somehow to have missed. And of course I 
should reread Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. I found those funny even when I was a 
kid in high school. To say nothing of Puddinhead Wilson.
> 
> There is hope. Connie Wilson writes some devastatingly funny stuff. Bellwether is fiction 
and is about science and still manages not to be science fiction; but everyone who has 
ever worked in the high tech industries has had a Flip in their lives. And if you haven't read 
To Say Nothing of the Dog, run, don't walk, to your nearest library or bookstore.
> 
> And I've learned not to keep Steven Pyle's The Incomplete Book of Failures on the back 
of my toilet. Too many social gatherings have been brought to an ominous silence by 
howls of laughter issuing from behind the closed door. And I can't help feeling that "I have 
a fun bathroom" is a rather feeble excuse.
>


Not sure I approve of books breeding, who knows what monstrosities might appear.
To allow 'Call of the Wild' to snuggle up to 'Fanny by Gaslight' and produce 'Call of the 
Fanny' would be irresponsible to say the least.

I don't find books so much as have them disappear. I got a new dog in the summer and
she has a taste for literature - she eats books. Three gone in the past couple of months. 
It's not as if she's a pup either, she's 5 years old.

As for the oldies, let's not forget Saki (H. H. Munro) or even ole Kippers on occasion.
Twain isn't nearly so popular over here as in the States, naturally enough, and I'd bet that  
more Brits have read, say, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken than 
Thurber. I think we prefer a dash of acid in our humour, something that gives Carl Hiaason 
a fan base over here. (A darker Brit equivalent would be Christopher Brookmyer - 'Quite 
Ugly One Morning', 'One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night', 'Country of the Blind' -  
earned the label of 'tartan noir'.) Yeah, Connie Willis can be fun, although 'Doomsday Book' 
is a bit of a downer, even though I think it's her best so far.

Pyle's stuff, while undoubtedly funny, starts to edge over into a slightly different category 
IMO. It's the realm of the accomplished wordsmith, raconteur or practical joker (The Henry 
Root Letters, for example, a literary fore-runner of Borat in some respects.) Two of the 
funniest laugh-out-loud books I've read were David Niven's autobiographical tomes, and 
while there's probably some exaggeration, it's not really true fiction. And if close-to-real 
life is funnier than most comedic fiction, then good humorous books are obviously bloody 
difficult to write.

Kneasy





From lunalovegood at tbernhard2000.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov 11 17:37:46 2006
From: lunalovegood at tbernhard2000.yahoo.invalid (tbernhard2000)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:37:46 -0000
Subject: Funny, that. (OT)
In-Reply-To: <ej258k+kcfh@...>
Message-ID: <ej51pa+sfvj@...>

There's the humour of Magnus Mills, which isn't instrumentalist like
O'Rourke's, and shares more with Kafka than with Wodehouse. It is
capable of producing belly laughs, too. "The Hall brothers do all the
fencing around here...."

I wonder if Parker is perhaps even funnier than the women you
mentioned, at certain points. Of course, she was born a hundred and 3
years ago...





From ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid  Sun Nov 19 03:43:42 2006
From: ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid (ewe2)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:43:42 +1100
Subject: [Hogs_Head] Has anyone seen the McGonagle is an evil DE essay?
In-Reply-To: <ejl1ee+4pdv@...>
References: <ejl1ee+4pdv@...>
Message-ID: <91d14f320611181943h7a975c7bn98efc912f12bcfb2@...>

On 11/18/06, Sea Change <nakedkali at ...> wrote:
> Worthy of Pippin!  It's not new, was published June 30th.
>
> http://community.livejournal.com/unplottables/46684.html
>
>

It's a fun rant and combines appropriate Agatha Christie worship and
charming phrases like "height of complimentary" and the droll "Vold
War 1".  The idea of McGonagall being an unregistered animagic is an
interesting twist; although here I feel malice is being attributed
rather than stupidity: it's a bit hard to hide being an animagus if
one parades the ability in front of ones students as a transfiguration
teacher. In fact, the line of reasoning rather compells you to choose
between malice and stupidity, and rather depends on how you view her
reactions. This is a classic Christie damoclean pose, and it IS rather
attractive. And she's right: it's always the person you least expect.

-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best



From dfrankiswork at davewitley.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 24 12:07:12 2006
From: dfrankiswork at davewitley.yahoo.invalid (davewitley)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:07:12 -0000
Subject: [Hogs_Head] Has anyone seen the McGonagle is an evil DE essay?
In-Reply-To: <91d14f320611181943h7a975c7bn98efc912f12bcfb2@...>
Message-ID: <ek6n9g+cghe@...>

ewe2 <ewetoo at ...> wrote:
>
> On 11/18/06, Sea Change <nakedkali at ...> wrote:
> > Worthy of Pippin!  It's not new, was published June 30th.
> >
> > http://community.livejournal.com/unplottables/46684.html
> >
> >
> 
>
Ah, memories!

http://elkins.theennead.com/hp/archives/000117.html

David





From ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid  Fri Nov 24 12:31:36 2006
From: ewetoo at ewe2_au.yahoo.invalid (ewe2)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:31:36 +1100
Subject: [the_old_crowd] Re: [Hogs_Head] Has anyone seen the McGonagle is an evil DE essay?
In-Reply-To: <ek6n9g+cghe@...>
References: <91d14f320611181943h7a975c7bn98efc912f12bcfb2@...>
	 <ek6n9g+cghe@...>
Message-ID: <91d14f320611240431qe819cb6i1d868ac826a3bdf@...>

On 11/24/06, davewitley <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> ewe2 <ewetoo at ...> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/18/06, Sea Change <nakedkali at ...> wrote:
> > > Worthy of Pippin!  It's not new, was published June 30th.
> > >
> > > http://community.livejournal.com/unplottables/46684.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> Ah, memories!
>
> http://elkins.theennead.com/hp/archives/000117.html
>
> David

If it hasn't already been done to death, and given the current state
of play with Snape, is it possible that he is unaware of McGonagall's
Evil? I don't recall Elkins tackling this.

-- 
Emacs vs. Vi flamewars are a pointless waste of time. Vi is the best



From carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov 25 17:07:48 2006
From: carolynwhite2 at carolynwhite2.yahoo.invalid (carolynwhite2)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 17:07:48 -0000
Subject: There be dragons in them there hills..
Message-ID: <ek9t94+pgmi@...>

Non-UK readers might enjoy this link to a loony bureaucracy story 
making headlines here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6159630.stm

It seems the muggles still know nothing about the Common Welsh Green!

Carolyn




From quigonginger at quigonginger.yahoo.invalid  Sat Nov 25 22:55:45 2006
From: quigonginger at quigonginger.yahoo.invalid (quigonginger)
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:55:45 -0000
Subject: There be dragons in them there hills..
In-Reply-To: <ek9t94+pgmi@...>
Message-ID: <ekahlh+nttu@...>

Carolyn wrote:
> Non-UK readers might enjoy this link to a loony bureaucracy story 
> making headlines here:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6159630.stm
> 
> It seems the muggles still know nothing about the Common Welsh Green!

Ginger responds:

Having once been a vegetarian myself, I think the govt really ought to 
give vegetarians a bit more credit than to think that anything 
labeled "dragon" would be meatless.  I mean, it may be fictional meat 
(to the Muggles) but it is meat nonetheless.  What they won't think of 
next.

Ginger, who, under the advise of her council, would like to clarify 
that she has no root-type ingredients at all.




From foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid  Sun Nov 26 19:52:53 2006
From: foxmoth at pippin_999.yahoo.invalid (pippin_999)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:52:53 -0000
Subject: [Hogs_Head] Has anyone seen the McGonagle is an evil DE essay?
In-Reply-To: <91d14f320611240431qe819cb6i1d868ac826a3bdf@...>
Message-ID: <ekcral+tig2@...>

ewe2:
> If it hasn't already been done to death, and given the current state
> of play with Snape, is it possible that he is unaware of McGonagall's
> Evil? I don't recall Elkins tackling this.


Pippin:
Er, though I say it as shouldn't, you may think, two archtraitors is
redundant, so McGonagall can be an archtraitor only if Snape is 
DDM. That being the case, Snape can only be aware of McGonagall's
evil if he has been magically prohibited from revealing it.

If there is an archtraitor and it's not Snape, then evil!McGonagall
may well come into play as a red herring if nothing else. But I 
doubt that she's the culprit. There are  many scenes where 
she's not doing anything remotely suspicious. The worst that
can be said against her is that she failed to save Barty Jr. But
if you put yourself in her shoes that's not so unlikely. 

She was standing guard over a man who was responsible for the
murder of one student and the abduction, torture and attempted
murder of another. It would be hard to  come up with a happy 
thought sufficient to control a dementor in  such
circumstances.

Pippin