L. Marcus Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Old Man speaks the truth. And they're the Devil to mock out afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings It is kind of a disability in some respects' date=' isn't it? Though I've found sympathy is hard to come by.[/quote'] There's always reduction surgery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings And balloons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings The Sig P250 looks like a really good sidearm option' date=' but I wonder what it costs.[/quote'] A quick google search shows it to be around $600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wow, that's cheaper than an HK at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings If you have to explain the joke' date=' it's not funny anymore... [/size'] Don't anger Teh Bunneh. He could be this guy after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wold Newtonesque/'British Pulp' crossover -- Mary Poppins is married to Sherlock Holmes. any comments? I hate the whole Wold Newton concept. If I ever meet Philip Jose Farmer in a dark alley... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I hate the whole Wold Newton concept. If I ever meet Philip Jose Farmer in a dark alley... IIRC Oodhat is a fan of it. Guess I who I am hoping sees it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't know who Oodhat is, but OddHat believes everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's why they make chocolate and vanilla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't know who Oodhat is' date=' but OddHat believes everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's why they make chocolate and vanilla.[/quote'] For the rest of us, there's strawberry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't know who Oodhat is' date=' but OddHat believes everyone is entitled to their own opinion. That's why they make chocolate and vanilla.[/quote'] For the rest of us' date=' there's strawberry. [/quote'] Neapolitan Rep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wold Newtonesque/'British Pulp' crossover -- Mary Poppins is married to Sherlock Holmes. any comments? Mary's first adventures were written and published in the 1930s. I'm not sure when exactly they were meant to be taking place, but that presents something of a timeline problem. Might be best to say that Poppins (who was, after all, a friendly sort of witch) was married to Holmes decades before she went into the nanny business. You'd also have to come up for an in-character justification for Holmes to have ever married anyone at all; one approach could be to say that his avoidence of all romantic entanglements came out of his traumatic early failed mariage to Poppins. Not much of a stretch to see a young Holmes fascinated by a young woman with extraordinary powers, and no problem at all to see why a woman would be attracted to him early in a relationship and unable to stand him as time went on. Placing Holmes in a world with magic in the first place isn't much of a jump; pastiche writers have done it any number of times. Poppins author (PL Travers) hated the Disney version, and would probably have gotten a kick out of a failed romance as an explanation of Poppins bitter side and refusal to remary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wold Newtonesque/'British Pulp' crossover -- Mary Poppins is married to Sherlock Holmes. any comments? Never happen. Holmes is too much the egotist. And Mary would not put up with it. and let's not even start with the drug use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Never happen. Holmes is too much the egotist. And Mary would not put up with it. and let's not even start with the drug use.I'm guessing the drug use is what ended the marriage. Americans usually think of Mary as the movie character. We forget that the print character was (to borrow a Pratchettism) Good, but not always Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings You know how Top 40 radio is repetitive? It ain't got nuthin' on Country radio. In my vanpool, we have the radio set to a country station. Every day, morning and evening, I hear two songs. Alan Jackson's "Country Boy" and Craig Morgan's "International Harvester." Every. Single. Day. Twice a day. And I only listen to those stations for about 45 minutes at a time. I generally like country music, but these are not even good songs. . You have my sympathy. Personally I wouldn't ride in a vanpool that played country music. Even using my own MP3 player and turning it up probably wouldn't be sufficient. But I'm like that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings You have my sympathy. Personally I wouldn't ride in a vanpool that played country music. Even using my own MP3 player and turning it up probably wouldn't be sufficient. But I'm like that... Like I said, I generally like country. But these two songs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Like I said' date=' I generally like country. But these two songs... [/quote'] Understood. I was actually offering sympathy based on your situation. I just went ahead and gave how I would feel about it if I were in the same situation. 'Cause I'm like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I remember back in my freshman year of college, one week for four straight days the same song was playing when my clock radio went off in the morning. (For the record, it was B J Thomas's "Somebody done somebody wrong song", and yes, it still incites homicidal fury when I hear it.) That afternoon I changed the station and never played that station again. It changed call letters and format a few months later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings I remember back in my freshman year of college' date=' one week for four straight days the same song was playing when my clock radio went off in the morning. (For the record, it was B J Thomas's "Somebody done somebody wrong song", and yes, it still incites homicidal fury when I hear it.) That afternoon I changed the station and never played that station again. It changed call letters and format a few months later.[/quote'] At one point a local radio station played They Might Be Giants "Minimum Wage" every hour, on the hour from 5 to 10 am, specifically for alarm clocks. To this day I use that on my phone as my alarm sound... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Yeesh. My response to that would only be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archermoo Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Yeesh. My response to that would only be Whereas for me it was the only reason I had my alarm clock tuned to that station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings For a while the station I had on my alarm played Julie Brown's "I'm a Blond" every time it went off. Made me want to blonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings When the owner of the local rock station in my hometown threatened to switch the format to country, a few of the DJs locked themselves in the broadcast booth and played "It's the End of the World as we Know It" for over 24 hours straight. My brother and I both cranked up our stereos so you could hear it through the whole house. It was great. P.S. At first I thought it was just a publicity stunt - especially when the owner gave in - but the format did change a few months later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Wold Newtonesque/'British Pulp' crossover -- Mary Poppins is married to Sherlock Holmes. any comments? yeah, too much effort to make it work. They don't seem like they'd have anything to do with one another. Looks up...oh. Like they said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Re: Musings on Random Musings Mary's first adventures were written and published in the 1930s. I'm not sure when exactly they were meant to be taking place' date=' but that presents something of a timeline problem. Might be best to say that Poppins (who was, after all, a friendly sort of witch) was married to Holmes decades before she went into the nanny business. You'd also have to come up for an in-character justification for Holmes to have ever married anyone at all; one approach could be to say that his avoidence of all romantic entanglements came out of his traumatic early failed mariage to Poppins. Not much of a stretch to see a young Holmes fascinated by a young woman with extraordinary powers, and no problem at all to see why a woman would be attracted to him early in a relationship and unable to stand him as time went on. Placing Holmes in a world with magic in the first place isn't much of a jump; pastiche writers have done it any number of times. Poppins author (PL Travers) hated the Disney version, and would probably have gotten a kick out of a failed romance as an explanation of Poppins bitter side and refusal to remary.[/quote'] Never happen. Holmes is too much the egotist. And Mary would not put up with it. and let's not even start with the drug use. I'm guessing the drug use is what ended the marriage. Americans usually think of Mary as the movie character. We forget that the print character was (to borrow a Pratchettism) Good, but not always Nice. I came up with the idea of Poppins/Holmes at work, and couldn't check the chronology. Yeah, I stuffed up, sorta. I thought Mary Poppins was set around the time of Sherlock Holmes, during the "British pulp era", which I place earlier than the American pulp era (cf. Machen, Blackwood, Wilde, Doyle etc). The American pulps seem to have followed on from the 'British pulp' stories. Still thanks for your comments, so what about Holmes' son or grandson, would he make a better husband for Mary Poppins? Or maybe keep in with the "M"s and say, the son/grandson of Professor Moriarty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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