"Little Green Footballs" is apparently a well-known warblog. I'd never heard of it myself. There's an article about it on Wikipedia. Also, while you probably got it, I want to note that his last sentence is an allusion to The Lord of the Rings -- Gandalf (I think) saying that if the Gondorians took the Ring to use, Minas Tirith would become just like Minas Morgul.
I initially got "Brother Cattle Prod of Moderation", which didn't quite do it for me, so I appealed to the naming committee...it came back with "Brother Sword of Mild Reason" which I like much better.
I remember hearing that story too; I even remember the name -- Randall Garrett (maybe in collaboration with Robert Silverberg, I forget that part). There were several stories involving cats, mysteries, and Catholicism in various combinations, and none of them sold.
Latin for "fish" is "piscis". "Pisces" is the plural. As far as I can tell (and I could be wrong) "piscus" doesn't actually exist -- in Latin, at least.
THE EDISON LABORATORIES
Scientia Gratia Pecuniam
*snrch*.
But it should be "Pecuniae".
Not that I'm aware of. But I'm not amazingly sensitive to that kind of thing.
I read Jane Eyre as preparation for The Eyre Affair and didn't really expect to like it much, but somewhat to my own surprise I actually did. Sure, it's got plenty of flaws, but it has a quality of narrative drive that all too many books lack. Am I right in thinking that you read it because you had to for a class? You might try it again, unforced.
I am actually of the opinion now that The Eyre Affair stands on its own, but you should read Jane Eyre first so that Affair will not utterly spoil it.
Marilee: When you say you gave up partway through the first book, do you mean Triplanetary? Because Triplanetary is dull...but the others are much less so. (At least IMAO.) You might consider trying again with Galactic Patrol. (Leave First Lensman for later.)
You could put the person's name along with their dates. (E.g., "David Goldfarb 1968-2052".)
There's been a fair amount of discussion of this on rec.arts.sf.fandom over the years. I remember one time. For many years people I respected had adored Mike Ford's writing, but it had never clicked with me; then I read The Dragon Waiting and it did. And it was late at night and I was still a bit loopy, so I when I posted about it to rassff I titled the post "John M. Ford". The next day it took two posts saying "Don't DO that!" before I stopped saying "What are they on about?" and started saying, "Oh, shit...."
Like some others, I'm reading The Eyre Affair. And like some others, I prepared for it by reading Jane Eyre, albeit on phosphor not paper. Somewhat to my own surprise, I ended up enjoying Jane Eyre for its own sake; at this stage, in fact, I would agree that you should read Jane before Affair -- but not because you need to know Jane's plot (there's plenty of exposition), rather to avoid Affair's big honking spoilers!
I also just finished reading RealLivePreacher.com. Reading it all at once, as words on paper, is rather different from getting spread across time on a screen, but I'm finding it hard to articulate exactly how.
Safari has an interesting capability that I think is new: when I roll my cursor over the link in the name, it pops up a dialog box giving the URL that the redirect points to.
A couple of nitpicks:
Onan's brother was dead, not sterile. (Well, okay, being dead does normally make one also sterile, but...)
Mary's conception of Jesus was the Virgin Birth, not the Immaculate Conception. The IC applies to Mary herself: she was born free from Original Sin (in a sort of retroactive grace from her son's future sacrifice) so as to be a fit vessel for the Son.
I'm actually an atheist, I just love to nitpick. (grin)
Not quite all fifty states: Maine and Nebraska allocate their electors proportionately to their votes, with two extra going to the one who was ahead. Colorado is considering going to this system (and if memory serves me right, voting on that question in this very election).
Try pressing F11 twice. That sometimes helps.
From the Google reference I assume it's googlebombing, undeterred by the redirect. Just to make sure, I did follow the link; it's a pr0n site. (Anime pr0n at that.)
I'm not sure how exactly glowing bowls relates to digestive disorders in other than dream-logic; I'd guess that Jo wanted to throw in the fact that Jon Singer is in fact making glowing bowls. I have the one he displayed at Minicon: it's a pretty blue outside, and a nice porcelain white inside -- under normal light. Under ultraviolet, a glowing Angerthas "G"-rune appears, surrounded by four diamond shapes. The interior is painted with rare earth element oxides that fluoresce. (In a very Singeresque touch, it's painted with not just one rare earth oxide, but a mixture -- Singer was unsatisfied with the color given off by just the one.)
Jo pushed me to buy the bowl because she felt that it ought to be owned by someone whose name starts with "G". I'm glad she did.
Xopher writes of Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion books:
The plots are so formulaic that there's one chapter that appears word for word in four different books.
This sounds like you're talking about the "Sailor on the Seas of Fate" bit? That's kind of unfair: it wasn't a result of applying plot formula, it was the result of doing a crossover! Four different heroes all met and adventured together. Which of them should omit the incident from their books and thus confuse readers who haven't read the other series?
Nor is the chapter repeated word-for-word in all of them. The narration is different, and each version of the chapter has some bits of dialogue that aren't in the others. There is dialogue that is repeated word-for-word, yes, but after all it is the same scene in each, just from different points of view.
There's nothing wrong with disliking Moorcock's heroic fantasy, and certainly there are plenty of valid complaints to be made against his books. I don't see any reason to go and make invalid ones.
(Oh, and it's three books rather than four.)
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