The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Parmandur]

I'm not arguing much or hard here, but a failure mode of "doesn't suffer fools" is naughty word. To paraphrase one SF writer while thinking of another. (Paraphrasing Scalzi, thinking about H. Ellison--whom I've seen described as "an naughty word who wrote like a dream.") It has been a while, and my wife adores Pratchett's witches, so it's possible I was or am wrong.

She is not a perfect person: the Coven is interesting in that all three women bring something positive, and need the other two to check their personal failings.

 

[Parmandur]

I remember Small Gods and Jingo playing in similar fields, though they might not appeal as much to readers with strong commitments (which I don't have).

No, those are both great, too, but Carpe Jugulum presents Prathcett's religous sense at it's best.

 

[Gradine]

I'm not arguing much or hard here, but a failure mode of "doesn't suffer fools" is naughty word. To paraphrase one SF writer while thinking of another. (Paraphrasing Scalzi, thinking about H. Ellison--whom I've seen described as "an naughty word who wrote like a dream.") It has been a while, and my wife adores Pratchett's witches, so it's possible I was or am wrong.

My favorite Harlan Ellison factoid is when he voiced an absolutely hilarious caricature of himself in the 2010 Scooby Doo series. Man knew who he was.

 

[prabe]

My favorite Harlan Ellison factoid is when he voiced an absolutely hilarious caricature of himself in the 2010 Scooby Doo series. Man knew who he was.

My favorite of his self-descriptions was along the lines of "Anything between me and what I want tends to end up with a Harlan-sized hole in it."

 

[CleverNickName]

Man. That thread certainly took off...

 

[Cadence]

My favorite of his self-descriptions was along the lines of "Anything between me and what I want tends to end up with a Harlan-sized hole in it."

Harlan Ellison was one my closest encounters with someone famous. Someone I was working for at a convention In Philadelphia took me to lunch with him and Julie Schwartz of DC comics. He told some great stories of some time with the Rolling Stones. He asked me a question (don't remember what), my starstruck answer was vapid, and he definitely made me feel like an idiot.

 

[Umbran]

A dead whale famously exploded not too far from here, back in the day.

(It had help. Like, multiple sticks of dynamite.)

A horse can do it without human assistance. My wife learned this empirically while in vet school. A horse came in for a necropsy after a couple of days lying out in the summer sun, with guts full of fermenting grass. My wife figured out what was about to happen, and made the leap into the freezer just in time.

Her necropsy partner... didn't. It was... smelly and messy.

 

[payn]

A horse can do it without human assistance. My wife learned this empirically while in vet school. A horse came in for a necropsy after a couple of days lying out in the summer sun, with guts full of fermenting grass. My wife figured out what was about to happen, and made the leap into the freezer just in time.

Her necropsy partner... didn't. It was... smelly and messy.

Sometimes auto assist happens. A friend was rolling down the highway and a deer ran out. The car in front of him hit the deer, which sent it airborne into his windshield. Entire cab of his pickup was coated in guts, except a silhouette of a person on the driver's seat...

 

[prabe]

Sometimes auto assist happens. A friend was rolling down the highway and a deer ran out. The car in front of him hit the deer, which sent it airborne into his windshield. Entire cab of his pickup was coated in guts, except a silhouette of a person on the driver's seat...

Negative space ftw.

 

[Parmandur]

Sometimes auto assist happens. A friend was rolling down the highway and a deer ran out. The car in front of him hit the deer, which sent it airborne into his windshield. Entire cab of his pickup was coated in guts, except a silhouette of a person on the driver's seat...

Well...bright side, I guess, he got some free pizza toppings.