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06 Dec 99 - 08:06 AM (#145350) Subject: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Roger the skiffler I just started to read a comedy thriller by Peter Guttridge called The once and future con and was struck by the opening sentences: " When the crumhorn player fell out of the minstrels' gallery... the lute player and the bloke who'd been blowing up a furry animal's bottom..grabbed their clleague as he toppled headfirst over the carved balustrade"
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06 Dec 99 - 08:17 AM (#145354) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: katlaughing Oh my gawd, RtS! That is scary and hillarious at the same time! Do you 'spose the author is a lurker here?**BG** katlaughing |
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06 Dec 99 - 08:31 AM (#145367) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Roger the skiffler I wondered that, too, Kat. BTW :sorry for typos: should be "colleague" in the quote and "disappointingly" in the text. As PeterT always reminds us: profreed! RtS |
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06 Dec 99 - 08:32 AM (#145370) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: catspaw49 Proving once again that there is no possibility left for an original thought. And what kind of tripe are you reading Skiff? Pick it up in a waiting room at the Young Center did you? Spaw |
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06 Dec 99 - 08:43 AM (#145375) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Mbo Speaking of 'Spaw and blowing up furry animals' bottoms...there's this weird little story in Cervantes' "Don Quixote" about a guy who always carried a piece of cane with him. Whenever he saw a dog, he'd "insert" the cane in the dog's rear end. Thusly, but blowing into the cane, he'd inflate the dog so much that it would bounce. When people walked by and gave him strange looks, he'd "bounce the dog's guts" and say "If you think your life is hard, try this for a day! Ha ha!" By the way, this guy was insane. Not that all those who take pleasure in blowing up little animals' rears are insane... --Mbo |
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06 Dec 99 - 09:50 AM (#145398) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Roger the skiffler He, Spaw, don't dis' the library at the Neil YOung Center, it's got lotsa books and I haven't finished colouring them all yet. RtS |
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06 Dec 99 - 07:40 PM (#145718) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Liz the Squeak We know a song about this don't we?! LTS |
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07 Dec 99 - 05:04 PM (#146143) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: MMario Unca 'Spaw? Is it all right for Mr_Roger_the_Skiffler to say utriculus out loud like that in public? Did he insult my brother? Should I bite him? Mr. Mbo - that's disgust-ulating.... Dido |
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07 Dec 99 - 05:34 PM (#146164) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Mbo Hey, don't kill the messenger! --Mbo |
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07 Dec 99 - 07:55 PM (#146250) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird) At http://www.gmm.co.uk/ai/rustic.htm is a picture or Mr. Marshall's "goatherd's bagpipe" which might be approximately what the author was visualizing when he wrote his gripping prose. T. |
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07 Dec 99 - 08:12 PM (#146262) Subject: RE: BS: Cleigh & Spaw in literature From: Willie-O I was going to add something to this thread but instead I think I'll just go practice a new tune on my clleague. Don't ask what formerly living critter or part thereof is involved... Bill C |