Making Light :: Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Two) :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008050.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:09:36 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Two) Had the previous message been necessary for a science-fiction story, it would properly have been constructed thus: "Flash, Dr. Zarkov... Had the previous message been necessary for a science-fiction story, it would properly have been constructed thus: "Flash, Dr. Zarkov... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008050.html Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Two) -- comment #1 from Bob Oldendorf comment from Bob Oldendorf on 29.Sep.06

I miss him.

Posted September 29, 2006 1:17 AM by Bob Oldendorf

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Oh, there must be some way to run this stuff through Lulu.com and come out with a bound version? What I wouldn't give....

Posted September 29, 2006 4:34 AM by Harriet

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I have laughed so hard at this and am smiling so widely now. Thank you.

Posted September 29, 2006 7:11 AM by Dan Guy

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Y'know, I think there's a book here somewhere. A real, solid book. Just how and how many copies and from whom, I can't say. But for real.

Posted September 29, 2006 10:40 AM by Robert L

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I had forgotten how much I enjoyed his appearances... "I am Simon called the bleedin' Montfort". I laughed for days!

Posted September 29, 2006 11:34 AM by Emma

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I'd buy the book.

Publish it.


Posted September 29, 2006 12:18 PM by Tony Zbaraschuk

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I keep cycling back to that Verona Total Breakdown excerpt, and its total bloody brilliance.

"Hammer down is how the hard girls kiss," indeed.

---L.

Posted September 29, 2006 12:41 PM by L.N. Hammer

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{Elbows person in next seat}
[whisper]
Hey, that's my dog he's talking about!
[/whisper]

Posted September 29, 2006 1:02 PM by Stefan Jones

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We who thought ourselves witty
Fear to open our mouths
Except to laugh.

He bows silently.

Posted September 29, 2006 1:38 PM by Kip W

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I keep cycling back to that Verona Total Breakdown excerpt, and its total bloody brilliance.

Seconded.

Posted September 29, 2006 2:36 PM by Russell Borogove

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I would only have bludgeoned him a little bit if he'd written The Da Vinci Code of the Woosters.

Posted September 29, 2006 8:08 PM by beth meacham

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Thank you for posting these.

Posted September 29, 2006 11:17 PM by Pantechnician

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Another portal to other dimensions is explained in the Google Earth forum at http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/. In the middle of the desert the Chinese Army has built a 1:500 scale model of territory it wrested from India in 1962. Next to it is a base where hundreds of troop trucks are parked. The Army has been bugged enough by blog reports that they actually made a statement, essentially not to worry about it, but nobody knows yet what the site is for.

Posted October 1, 2006 2:40 AM by Elron

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I'm pretty sure Mike's literary executor would have to agree to a book.

Posted October 1, 2006 1:09 PM by Marilee

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