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Never got all the way through Anna Karenina - knew how it started and how it ended - footnote spam filled in the middle! Now I don't have to read it and get really depressed!
Once saw a TV listing for the film Anna Karenina in the Independent as follows:
"Channel 4, 1.15pm film - Anna Karenina.
Vivien Leigh goes trainspotting."
Howled laughing and still raises a smile to think of it!
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: June 26, 2003 08:58PM
Much of it would have made me laugh out loud if I had an out loud, I did a lot of sniggering though <g>
roll on my voice returning
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Sylvester says.... *plock*
actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: June 26, 2003 08:59PM
Much of it would have made me laugh out loud if I had an out loud, I did a lot of sniggering though <g>
roll on my voice returning
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Sylvester says.... *plock*
actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up
I loved the spam and crossed wires - I now don't have to read Anna Karenina :) I did start reading my mother's copy, but ended up looking for some lighter reading (I found Les Miserables...)
I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.
I loved the bits where Jasper poked fun at himself. The holesmith's mention of daffodils blooming in summer, for example, and the use of the word Nakijima to test the mispeling virus.
And I love the bit about conserving 'u's by dropping them from words ending in 'our' in a localized area--particularly since I live in the area in question.
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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: July 11, 2003 05:24AM
grand, wasn't it Magda?? I loved all those bits. My poor hubby suffered from lack of sleep while I read, that's for sure! I kept waking him up with my laughing.
I only disturbed my parrot, Jester who was trying to sleep. He looked particularly perplexed when I felt a sudden need to assure him that I actually preferred parrots to carrots.
For me, the best bit (though admittedly it was hard to choose) had to be the rage management session in Wuthering Heights. I think that's got to be the funniest passage I've read in a very long time!
And all my friends are mad because -I- ordered a copy from the UK, and they're all waiting for the US release. Maybe if they're nice I'll let them read mine.
I laughed for a very long time when I realized what some of the jokes were hinting at. Particularly the u's. I suspect the numbers are rising again, because they've been slipping back into my writing.
I have to admit that I didn't understand who the Greek warrior was. Anyone care to enlighten me? Also, what exactly is Das Kapital about?
Having just read read Much Ado, Beatrice and Benedict partiularly appealed to me.
I also enjoyed describing the crossed lines to my Mom. "There are two russian women gossiping...it's about someone named Anna."