Comments on: Scenes From The Past Lives Of Tiny Enid

By: The worms

The worms — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:57:25 +0000

We worms perform the Universe’s most important tasks equipped with nothing but Phlegm, Industry and Stakhanovism. There might well be another 4.18Ã—10Â²Â³ bodily humours present in various combinations in other sorts of bodies, but they are completely abstract concepts to us worms and they are never covered in our in-service training. (We’re using a special slide-rule to express “Sorrow” and “Resentment” right now. God knows if we’re doing it right.) Our job is to bioturbate. We turn the Earth’s topsoil inside-out every two years and we polish the surface of the Sun. If we kept stopping to look up “gaar” or “bomba” in Wikipedia you’d all be stumbling around in the dark trying to exercise your “vim” and “pluck” knee-deep in your own excretions, be you Gods or not. So it is terribly unfair to throw these multi-choice questions about bomba and garr at us from left field.

But getting back to the subject of Tiny Enid: we worms will be sinking Darwin’s worm-stone an additional 2.2 millimeters this year in celebration of the Tiny Enidist’s mighty industry. May our academic Enidist brothers leave no stone unturned!

By: Pansy Cradledew

Pansy Cradledew — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:36:53 +0000

Mr Webster has my sympathy â€“Â I know many people who have fallen foul of fate by ticking the wrong box on one of the hideous bat-God Fatso’s forms.
I always imagined bomba pertained to internal vim and vigour, and gaar to one’s essence. In the case of Tiny Enid, it is her gaar that causes Basil and others to seek the ur-Enid of history, and her bomba that gives her pluck.
Incidentally Outaspaceman, my belated thanks for the splendid seasonal gift. We put its constituents in a patent box frame on the credenza, where it looks quite magisterial.

By: Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:55:38 +0000

The difference between gaar and bomba?
In the words of pop diva Toya Wilcox/Fripp…
“ith a mythterry”

By: Glyn Webster

Glyn Webster — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:19:08 +0000

Wait. What is the difference gaar and bomba again?

The last time I was Queued in Akismet I ticked the wrong box in some infernal document the Bat-Headed God called a “SATS” and I wasn’t allowed to reincarnate as a worm.