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Mark Barratt
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 6:19 am
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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david56 wrote:
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I've heard it said that Ms Thomas et al insisted on having the
answers in front of them as they recorded the show. She apparently
considered herself a performer, not a competitor.
Slander. Take it back, now!
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Even as I wrote that, I was desperately trying to remember the name
of the man that you obviously would like to strangle. He's a long-
haired anarchic type with a double-barrelled surname. He used to
present a one-minute piece on Ned Sherrin's Saturday morning radio
4 program which had about 3 minutes of satirical material delivered
at a breathless pace. Until maybe a year ago he was writing a
Saturday column in the Mirror, which is where he mentioned the
above.
The name still won't come. Ned Sherrin's show was called "Loose
Ends" (suggestively, I suppose, because Sherrin is an acknowledged
raving shirtlifter).
Can anyone help?
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Mark Barratt
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Don Aitken
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 7:35 am
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:55:40 -0700, don groves <dgroves@domain.net>
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| Quote: | In article <pt4kzi1m.fsf@hpl.hp.com>, kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com
wrote...
don groves <dgroves@domain.net> writes:
Someone, it may have been Isaak Asimov (he of the _Lecherous
Limericks_), wrote a SciFi vignette back in the '40s or '50s
about man's first trip to Venus. The Venusians were extremely
aloof and ignored all attempts at conversation until one day,
tired of being treated as invisible, an Earthling turned to a
silent, passing Venusian and said, "Aw, go fuck yourself", at
which the Venusian brightened and vigorously shook the man's
hand. Turns out Venusians were autosexual and that was the only
greeting they recognized as civil.
I find it hard to believe that anyone could have gotten that published
in the '40s or '50s. Or was his claim just that he had written it but
not published it?
I read it in a sci fi anthology, probably by Campbell. I can't
remember now if the f word was completely spelled out but it was
enough to make the intent obvious. Maybe I shouldn't have quoted
it for that reason. I'll visit our main library and see if I can
find the anthology.
In the same volume was another short-short depicting the visiting
of earth by giant but apparently gentle creatures from outer
space. The earthlings had just about figured out the invaders
meant them no harm when a fine mist began descending and, upon
looking up, discovered the aliens spraying for bugs.
"Pattern". |
| Quote: | I just remembered the name! Frederick Brown! How could I have
forgotten, he is/was one of my favorite authors.
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Nobody remembers how to spell his name, though. I wouldn't if I didn't
have the book in front of me. When you've reread "Angels and
Spaceships" you can go on to "Space on My Hands" and "Nightmares and
Geezenstacks" (which contains another couple of stories that might be
thought too risque for the fifties). I hope you can find them; the
latter two, but, unfortunately not the first, were reprinted in the UK
in 1982. I treasure my 1962 paperback of "Angels and Spaceships", even
though it's falling apart.
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Don Aitken
Mail to the addresses given in the headers is no longer being
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david56
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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Mark Barratt typed thus:
| Quote: | david56 wrote:
I've heard it said that Ms Thomas et al insisted on having the
answers in front of them as they recorded the show. She apparently
considered herself a performer, not a competitor.
Slander. Take it back, now!
Even as I wrote that, I was desperately trying to remember the name
of the man that you obviously would like to strangle. He's a long-
haired anarchic type with a double-barrelled surname. He used to
present a one-minute piece on Ned Sherrin's Saturday morning radio
4 program which had about 3 minutes of satirical material delivered
at a breathless pace. Until maybe a year ago he was writing a
Saturday column in the Mirror, which is where he mentioned the
above.
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Victor Lewis-Smith. Actually I don't hate him; I enjoyed his TV
show entitled something like "Ferdinand de Bargos" where he put silly
dialogue over black and white programmes.
| Quote: | The name still won't come. Ned Sherrin's show was called "Loose
Ends" (suggestively, I suppose, because Sherrin is an acknowledged
raving shirtlifter).
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Still is called Loose Ends, but it's on in Saturday evenings now.
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David
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Mark Barratt
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| Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 3:08 pm
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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david56 wrote:
| Quote: | Victor Lewis-Smith.
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Ah, yes. There's a goodbye column by him on the Mirror's web site
at <http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/victorlewissmith/>
but when I click on "Previous columns" I get a blank page.
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Mark Barratt |
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Evan Kirshenbaum
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:16 am
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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Don Aitken <don-aitken@freeuk.com> writes:
| Quote: | On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:55:40 -0700, don groves <dgroves@domain.net
wrote:
I just remembered the name! Frederick Brown! How could I have
forgotten, he is/was one of my favorite authors.
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Of course. How could *I* have forgotten?
| Quote: | Nobody remembers how to spell his name, though. I wouldn't if I
didn't have the book in front of me. When you've reread "Angels and
Spaceships" you can go on to "Space on My Hands" and "Nightmares and
Geezenstacks" (which contains another couple of stories that might
be thought too risque for the fifties). I hope you can find them;
the latter two, but, unfortunately not the first, were reprinted in
the UK in 1982. I treasure my 1962 paperback of "Angels and
Spaceships", even though it's falling apart.
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I don't seem to have a copy of _Angels and Spaceships_, although I'm
sure I read it once upon a time. More depressingly, I no longer seem
to have a copy of _Martians, Go Home_. I do have _Space on My Hands_,
_Honeymoon in Hell_, and _What Mad Universe_.
Checking on Amazon, there's a book entitled _From These Ashes: The
Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown_. Only in hardcover, though. That
appears to be the only collection of his SF in print (and none of his
novels appear to be), which is a real shame.
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don groves
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| Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 1:59 am
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In article <vfe8iz6d.fsf@hpl.hp.com>, kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com
wrote...
| Quote: | Don Aitken <don-aitken@freeuk.com> writes:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:55:40 -0700, don groves <dgroves@domain.net
wrote:
I just remembered the name! Frederick Brown! How could I have
forgotten, he is/was one of my favorite authors.
Of course. How could *I* have forgotten?
Nobody remembers how to spell his name, though. I wouldn't if I
didn't have the book in front of me. When you've reread "Angels and
Spaceships" you can go on to "Space on My Hands" and "Nightmares and
Geezenstacks" (which contains another couple of stories that might
be thought too risque for the fifties). I hope you can find them;
the latter two, but, unfortunately not the first, were reprinted in
the UK in 1982. I treasure my 1962 paperback of "Angels and
Spaceships", even though it's falling apart.
I don't seem to have a copy of _Angels and Spaceships_, although I'm
sure I read it once upon a time. More depressingly, I no longer seem
to have a copy of _Martians, Go Home_. I do have _Space on My Hands_,
_Honeymoon in Hell_, and _What Mad Universe_.
Checking on Amazon, there's a book entitled _From These Ashes: The
Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown_. Only in hardcover, though. That
appears to be the only collection of his SF in print (and none of his
novels appear to be), which is a real shame.
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I found a copy of _Angels and Spaceships_ right here in town, at
Powell's Books, via abebooks.com, even with the misspelled name.
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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