Comments on: Oakley & Hackenschmitt http://hootingyard.org/archives/1385 A Website by Frank Key Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:47:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: R http://hootingyard.org/archives/1385/comment-page-1#comment-5556 R Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:25:51 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1385#comment-5556 I don't suppose you could have overlooked an exiguous subtitle on the volume in question ... something along the lines of 'Includes Various Bewildering Spooves'? I don’t suppose you could have overlooked an exiguous subtitle on the volume in question … something along the lines of ‘Includes Various Bewildering Spooves’?

]]> By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/1385/comment-page-1#comment-5555 Frank Key Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:54:32 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1385#comment-5555 R : You didn't mention the "rugged holiday cruises", which sound intriguing to me. R : You didn’t mention the “rugged holiday cruises”, which sound intriguing to me.

]]> By: R http://hootingyard.org/archives/1385/comment-page-1#comment-5551 R Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:19:26 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=1385#comment-5551 I take it a 'champion wrestler' is a champion among wrestlers rather than one whose preferred opponents are champions; yet it seems possible that the 'giant wrestler' Hackenschmitt was a 'differently-small' individual who chose to wrestle, rather than a pugilistic normalton with a penchant for being pulverised by towering ogres and the like. As for the milk ... was that a giant misprint? Maybe it should have been eleven gallons, or eleven Rehoboams ... could make all the difference. In view of Oakley's literary specialism, I'd recommend eleven pints of A Neon Drool. I take it a ‘champion wrestler’ is a champion among wrestlers rather than one whose preferred opponents are champions; yet it seems possible that the ‘giant wrestler’ Hackenschmitt was a ‘differently-small’ individual who chose to wrestle, rather than a pugilistic normalton with a penchant for being pulverised by towering ogres and the like.

As for the milk … was that a giant misprint? Maybe it should have been eleven gallons, or eleven Rehoboams … could make all the difference. In view of Oakley’s literary specialism, I’d recommend eleven pints of A Neon Drool.

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