The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Bob Devney:

Tom and Serge and Chris at least, thanks for beating me to Z, Red Dawn, and 7 Days in May.

If we want to make them think, perhaps A Face in the Crowd, An American Crime, or Triumph of the Will?

Xopher @ 315:

Ferqav Infugne, ol Fnxv, frrzf gb svg.

Pendrift @ 306:

Cebhfg qhaxrq uvf, va gung snzbhf cnentencu. Naq ntnva, gurer'f abguvat bs gung fvmr naq pbafvfgrapl gung Nzrevpnaf jbhyq pnyy n pnxr. N phcpnxr vf abg n pnxr rvgure, vg'f vgf bja pngrtbel.

Abj yrg'f fgneg qrsvavat jung jr zrna ol fpvrapr svpgvba ...

Bruce Cohen @ 313:

Ohg anzr nabgure guvat jvgu gung funcr naq pbafvfgrapl gung Nzrevpnaf jbhyq pnyy n zvav-zhssva.

Zna, nz V trggvat uhatel abj!

Say, perhaps, finally, THIS is Vogon poetry!

Clifton Royston @ 295: Thanks for awarding me the prize! And you're right, of course, about the attribution.

Mez @ 298: I was just WAITING for someone to bring up the pnxr/pbbxvr debate.

For me, fbzrguvat yvtug, fznyy, naq unaquryq gung'f qel rabhtu gb arrq qhaxvat vf ab pnxr.

Throroughly translated into American, vg'f n pbbxvr.

If I hadn't tasted that cookie ... would those memories have returned?

Carrie S @ 285

Wbua Pbaabe, va Grezvangbe

and a pivotal point indeed!

Paul A. @ 271:

Thanks! It was fun.

That's what this show needs. More approbation.

I'm still really tickled by the one from albatross @ 80. And many more, looking back: lightning @ 32, diatryma @ 38, heresiarch @ 60, carrie s. @ 106, joel polowin @ 137, dave bell @ 138, abi @ 167, luthe @ 190, terry karney @ 210 all have the advantages of being both nicely done and about stories I knew quickly.

Thanks again, abi: this was a GOOD idea! (Anyone else going to Boskone? Maybe I can buy you a drink at the hotel's brand-new Irish pub and we can toast this shared delight.)

Does all this remind anyone else of a contest in one of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books? Googling hard, looks like it's BEFORE MIDNIGHT. Wherein (far as I can remember) there are these similar cryptic self-identifying squibs, clues for a contest. Though in that case they all identified notable women in history who had used perfume. Oh, and they were all in verse ...

dcb @ 240:

Right!

Clifton Royston,

Thanks. I agree with Joel Polowin, but too slowly ...

And Joel @ 233:
Qenphyn. Specifically Zvan Unexre.

Clifton Royston @ 228:

Naqerj Wnpxfba Yvool?

Certainly the service expects every man to do his duty. I was young, but that principle at least I had taken well to heart. The week I had to prepare, while full of recurring anxiety, nevertheless afforded the time to steel myself to mine.

The greatest difficulty came not in any general agitation, but in that particular phobia I've long been at pains to conceal, though with mixed success. The captain knew, I think. He pitied me the more, perhaps, in prospect of the great exercise that fear would find in my new command.

When the moment came, though, my fear had absolutely no part to play, thank God! It all went wrong in quite a different way.

Quick as a striking snake, Chance spared me. And took all the life of my well-loved captain instead.

Abi @ 167,

Gotte be Thl jub fbyq Sversyl gb Zny naq Mbr.

Thanks for keeping the signal going.

Eric @ 155,

Uhzcgl Qhzcgl.

Love the subtle comedy of your last sentence.

Carrie @ 152,

This IS a sharpish bunch.

And ding, I think we have a winner. Wrffvpn may be the ugliest ROT-13 for the prettiest name yet.

dcb @ 149

Yes indeed! Or, when I first read it, Qhar Jbeyq.

If I hadn't been able to divest myself of the gag, they would have dumped my body and the boy's in the wasteland, food for worms.

So I make it this way for 137, 138, 139:

Vina Ibecngevy

Puevfgbcure Xvaavfba

Tbyyhz be Fzrntby

Amanda @ 127, and then Annie G @ 130: You have it! And Annie, yes, that's meant to be the viewpoint of Zngheva.

Never realized until I was writing that bit how easily that relationship can seem homoerotic, viewed from the masthead ...

We met by chance at the concert, and at first were not fond at all. But soon enough I was naming him "My dear." We set sail upon life's sea and long made beautiful music together.

Oh, you mean no one yet has the neat one by Albatross -- with that great last line -- at no. 80?

N Qrrcarff va gur Fxl, ol Ireabe Ivatr.

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