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Frabjous Day

Frabjous Day

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Sir Magnus Ramping-Fumitory, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Literate Order of Anglophiles

And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
He chortled in his joy.

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  • Brenda

    Brenda says

    How nice. Now, who's following whom, I wonder? Whichever, you must remember never to turn your back to me, dear.

    posted yesterday. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    I should think you'd disappear and become one shimmering sentence, like some rare breed of Cheshire Cat.

    posted yesterday. ( send a note )
  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    I've just voted for Mrs. D.
    XXX

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    I seeeeee you.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Well, I wozent fwinking of oo and neiver was JMB, I don't thuppothe. Wemember Lady Caroline in Dear Bwutus ? Nuffin will convince me that JMB was not whatever the opposite of a sentimentalist is and has been much misrepresented by the literal-minded. If I were staging DB, I'd do much of the Margaret sequence with irony as I am certain JMB intended it to be done-that hugging of the knees & oh, how you love me, daddy dear is clearly a send-up. He so often seems to be using conventional sentimentality and then cuts it off at the knees.

    I shall introduce our fwend D*n Br*sh to someone as D*n Bw*sh & report back to you about its efficacy.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Maggie Salisbury

    Dame Maggie Salisbury says

    Not in the least. In for a penny and not out for a thousand pounds. But to navigate, you need the map. http://boingboing.net/2007/09/30/pratchetts-discworld.html. You seem to have begun at the end of the Witches novels and the end of the Industrials.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    It should be vrivrer and hivrer, if one follows its daft logic.

    JMB said that no man can resist the inability to pronounce 'r', or words to that effect about this particular speech oddity. I'll twy it & weport back.

    posted 4 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Oh dear, hifrer and frifrer are somefring frat I can't even frink about. Once again, fre stupidity of fris rears its thilly head; mispronunciations frat make no sense. Fris child is in Efrel Turner and is ofrerwise a nice & clever child. I don't ever remember doing anything so absurd, any more than I can remember the intermediate stages between reading my first word as a word & not just a collection of letters & reading properly.

    Remember poor Sisyphus in Goethe (?) who was unlucky enough to have a lisp ?

    My *x. Too bithare.

    posted 4 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    That person of whom I told you looks like Heathcliff & like a less kempt Colin Firth.

    posted 6 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    For the Sick-making Babytalk Hall of Fame; a 6 year old who says 'frink' for 'think' (and, of course, turns all ths into frs) It's such a shame, as he's a very nice child otherwise. This is the most aggravating type of SB, of course, the converting of words into something that bears no resemblance to the original-like 'nucken' for 'nothing'. Opy doy; me's tummin froo tho me can be ick.

    posted 6 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    "The Mill on the Floss." I should have known. You know I've never successfully forded that stream.

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  • Dame Dixie

    Dame Dixie says

    That's lovely. From whence did it come?

    posted 6 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    No, I learned my lesson with that dreadful Ship at the End of the World book, or whatever it was called. It becomes clearer that, if you don't like what he's doing early on, it won't change, it will only get moreso.

    Yes, my reviews have tightened their belts, too.

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Brilliant, of course, or awful in the original sense.

    I disguised the villain's occupation-although there are a few people to whom this could apply-in an attempt not to make the book too obvious. I remember Tuppence enraging him by saying that-and the snoring signal ! Does everyone who reads that try to imitate it ?

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Yes, I thought so-the cover looks quite NORMAL, doesn't it ?

    The man in q looks like a bluff old ******.

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lady Hermione

    Lady Hermione says

    Oh, do give me a clue; which one has an evil teutonic skull ? I know which ones it ISN'T.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Lord Manleigh

    Lord Manleigh says

    Deleting reviews? Whyever for? They're our legacy, all that's left to us.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

    Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce says

    Oh, clever! :)

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

    Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce says

    Do you think that of the Romans had called their prison "Bob," say, that we'd refer to people being "inboberated?" :D

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce

    Dame Daisy Barksby-Pryce says

    As you've recently read Night Watch, you'll appreciate this:"Very impressively, on Roundworld "Selachian" means "of sharks" and a "Venturi" meter is to do with controlling the flow of jets. Sharks and Jets. Gettit?"
    THAT is why I adore Pratchett; he's so sly.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )

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