Comments on: The Heroic Bus Driver Of Pointy Town

By: sal

sal — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:54:16 +0000

Perhaps you could provide us with a photo of Pointy Town?

By: Kelly Le Cornu

Kelly Le Cornu — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:11:37 +0000

Hi there

With all this discussion of our township I thought it was about time we thanked you for putting Pointy Town on the map. Well, it already is on the map of the Yukon Territory here in Canada, but we don’t get to be in the news much. Pointy Town has just elected a Mayor for the first time, after being recognised as a township, and we have appointed a promotions chief to put us on the Web. The Mayor is Johnny Osikomiwasa (proud of his Inuit roots) and his buzz word this week is ‘promotion’. So that’s what I am doing. So I intend to climb to the top of Pointy Hill (it really is very pointy) and start promoting – well actually I will probably have to do the promoting from my office computer. So keep up the good work and tell the world about our Pointy Town. Hugs, Kelly (very tired, on fire watch)

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:43:57 +0000

OSM : Mere coincidence.

By: Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:54:48 +0000

May I add that the whole lamentable story smacks suspiciously of poetry…

By: J-P-S

J-P-S — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:53:22 +0000

On your second point, I have been careful enough to keep relations with the Mustelidae family to a minimum for at least the last five weeks, so no fear of that my good sir!
On your first point, though ‘remotely connected’ does indeed encompass a large proportion of that which makes up Pointy Town, one would be inclined to show some leniency and, say, maybe restrict the literally burning desire to destroy only things of an inanimate nature. Perhaps the seemingly reliable Pointy Town bus was friendly with other buses (or miscellaneous vehicles)? Was it known to hang around the bus depo on Friday nights? Did it ever flirt with tractors? I appreciate your reluctance to start setting fire to things, but damn it, a contamination is a contamination. What might have happened had not the Nazi’s burnt all of those books? Book plague would have spread across Europe in no time at all….

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:21:48 +0000

Hmmm. Burning the always-reliable Pointy Town bus and anything remotely connected with it? How remotely? This is such an overreaction I am beginning to wonder if you have in fact contracted a virulent strain of badger flu.

By: J-P-S

J-P-S — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:31:41 +0000

I would much rather he burnt the bus and anything remotely connected with it, but after much thought (and eating of cake) I will begrudgingly accept this reply of yours on the basis that any other demands would make me a hypocrite (having often ’sprayed a bit of disinfectant around’ to clear up diseases myself)

By: Frank Key

Frank Key — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:12:56 +0000

J-P-S : He sprayed a bit of disinfectant around.

By: J-P-S

J-P-S — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:09:22 +0000

This is all very well, but I’d like to be reassured about the possibility of Kim Fat Goo’s bus having been contaminated by these aliens beckoning from the Planet of Contaminated Wheat (unless that is just a quaint moniker, which it may well be, and in fact there is no wheat on their planet at all). What with all this talk of ‘badger flu’ going around I am, as you would expect, rather touchy when it comes to talk of contamination and will most certainly not take ‘he sprayed a bit of disinfectant around’ as an answer