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JackTucky:
metaphorically, I vote shorttranq has to post at least one message in PnR for every post he has here.  Until then, he's banished to PnR.  Those dummies will understand him better over there.

Drew, Ur MomZ

=J Horseboyz momz

boykster:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 22, 2007, 06:30:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: saint on June 22, 2007, 05:46:25 pm ---
--- Quote ---"Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits
On a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me
With crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!"
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Cute, but no. That's a regular kind of sentence just with odd words.


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I would figure that you, being a scholar of scifi, would recognize the venerable blathering of a Vogon ship captain's poetry.....

 :laugh2:

shorthair:
No, drew, that meant (and it occured to me that Jack might've meant the same) is your wife a happily married man, too?

boyk: um, Adams, maybe? I've never been interested in that kind of stuff. Goofy wasn't fun to me. And after graduating from some of the campy adventure stuff, like EE Doc Smith, I went straight into stuff of the early-to-mid 80s, when things really started to get mature, particularly with certain authors: Bear, Card, Brin, Benford (although his earliest, 70s stuff was this mature, just obscure to me).

boykster:

--- Quote from: shorthair on June 23, 2007, 12:58:05 pm ---
boyk: um, Adams, maybe? I've never been interested in that kind of stuff. Goofy wasn't fun to me. And after graduating from some of the campy adventure stuff, like EE Doc Smith, I went straight into stuff of the early-to-mid 80s, when things really started to get mature, particularly with certain authors: Bear, Card, Brin, Benford (although his earliest, 70s stuff was this mature, just obscure to me).

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Goofy yes, but not mature? No.  Adam's stuff is incredibly mature, it simply takes a humourous approach to many things.  That doesn't make it any less mature.  Comedy, beyond basic toilet humor and fart jokes, can be immensely intellectual and mature.  Its ok that its not your bag though, to each their own.

My favorite scifi author is Philip K Dick, with Douglas Adams a close second....

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.....

shorthair:
No, I said 'mature' after campy adventure stuff, with Smith as an example, and my meaning was that it was very science-based/informed as well as being good or great literature. Smith was an inventor, chemist, etc...but his stuff was conceptually wily, pretty thin story-wise, and pretty reserved regarding the personalities and relationships of the characters.

I haven't really read any P.K. Dick. I read slowly, and not often enough lately, so maybe eventually. Currently I'm in the middle of Dan Simmons' THE FALL OF HYPERION. Read it before but thought I'd do the 'Cantos' again.

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