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Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> It's sometimes fun trying to figure out what my wife (who learned
>>> Chinese first) is asking when she comes across a word she doesn't
>>> know. "What's a mig-non?"
>>>
>> Don't know, my first though that it was a very fast flying female
>> monk, but it is probably english and not dutch.
>
> I asked her if it had the word "fill-it" in front. :-) "Yeah! How'd you
> know?"
>
> She's great. I'm not making fun of her, but of English. :-)
>
Why would fillet mignon be english?
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andrel wrote:
> Why would fillet mignon be english?
OK. I'll grant you that one. On the other hand, it's not normally
italicized, so it's officially imported in some sense.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:38:48 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
> news:480fae73$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>> Have you read The Children of Hurin? I've got the book on CDs, but
>> haven't opened it yet.
>>
>>
> No, sorry.
Ah well, it's read by Christopher Lee, so it should be easy to listen
to. :-)
Jim
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And lo on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:17:05 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
did spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>> GIYF or more precise WIYF - Phobos the Robot Planet by Paul Capon? Not
>> one I've read.
>
> Actually, it looks more like "Lost, a Moon". No mention of Phobos in the
> title. Phobos the Robot Planet was published the same year. I'm
> suspecting it was the same story published under two names. The cover of
> "Lost, a Moon" is definitely something I remember.
I've found it rare but it's really annoying when that happens 'Oo look a
book by my favourite author I haven't got. Oh wait it's just the same as
one I do have, but with a different title".
> Cool! Thanks! (And yes, I did google it, but I obviously got the wrong
> words to search.)
And therein lies the problem with Google. IIRC I did Phobos computer
extinct martians capture; might have been a science fiction tacked on to,
but it amusingly led to the Phobos page on Wikipedia
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:17:05 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
> did spake, saying:
>
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> GIYF or more precise WIYF - Phobos the Robot Planet by Paul Capon?
>>> Not one I've read.
>>
>> Actually, it looks more like "Lost, a Moon". No mention of Phobos in
>> the title. Phobos the Robot Planet was published the same year. I'm
>> suspecting it was the same story published under two names. The cover
>> of "Lost, a Moon" is definitely something I remember.
>
> I've found it rare but it's really annoying when that happens 'Oo look a
> book by my favourite author I haven't got. Oh wait it's just the same as
> one I do have, but with a different title".
That happened so often with me and music (compilation disks of stuff I
already had) that I bought/wrote software to scrape CDDB and stick into
my palm pilot all the CDs I own sorted by track and author.
I also wound up with James Blish's "Starship" twice. Same time period,
same kind of thing.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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And lo on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:40:41 +0100, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>
did spake, saying:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> I very much doubt that I've read all the good fiction already! ;-)
>> There's probably an ample supply of suitable stuff out there. As I say,
>> the problem is locating it.
>
> I liked one story I read where the main character mentioned at some
> point he only reads books more than 100 years old. "Doesn't that limit
> your choices?" "No, not really." Two chapters later, you find out
> he's a millenium-old vampire.
I think I'd have found it more amusing if an apparent 25-year old said
they only read contemporary books, with the same continuation and
revelation.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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