From: j4	Date: November 29th, 2005 08:52 pm (UTC)		(Link)

There was an old man of Verdun?

	From: rysmiel	Date: November 29th, 2005 09:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

There was an old man of Peru,
Whose Limericks all end at line two.

And the last one in that series is about the Emperor Nero, but I can never remember how it goes...

[ There was an old man
Of Peru, whose lim'ricks all
Look'd like haiku. He

Said with a laugh, "I
Cut them in half, the pay is
Much better for two."

is the defining example of a joke that only works written down. ]

	From: rysmiel	Date: November 29th, 2005 09:22 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Also, there's a Verdun in Montreal, a rather oppressively characterless suburb in the southwest of the island, which makes seeing references to Verdun in such places as Patrick O'Brian a bit disconcerting. Though not so much as the huge overlap between placenames in Paris and Montreal is when reading Revolutionary-period Dumas. Three chapters about a riot at Place Vendome when I just got off the Metro there and so forth. It's a simple amusement, but then I am a simple creature.

	From: juggzy	Date: November 30th, 2005 09:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

It strikes me that, if anyone should be doing ameliorating "emuling" (and that 'cutesy' mispelling is majorly VOMWORTHY as it does nothing to add to meaning except say "look at me, how cutesy I am) it isn't me.

	From: juggzy	Date: December 1st, 2005 06:43 am (UTC)		(Link)

"Oopsie?" Another phrase that substitutes faux-cutesyism for personality or anything meaningful.

	From: j4	Date: December 1st, 2005 01:48 pm (UTC)		(Link)

She often is!

	From: j4	Date: December 2nd, 2005 11:22 am (UTC)		(Link)

If a newspaper said "Pete Docherty and girlfriend Kate Moss", whose girlfriend would you infer was meant?

(I don't have a girlfriend! Owen is All Man. ;-)

	From: oldbloke	Date: December 6th, 2005 12:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

The day newspapers start reporting the news in haiku is the day I, um, something.

	From: j4	Date: December 2nd, 2005 11:19 am (UTC)		(Link)

What do you think?