Comments on: The Lost Lozenge http://hootingyard.org/archives/958 A Website by Frank Key Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:28:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank Key http://hootingyard.org/archives/958/comment-page-1#comment-5239 Frank Key Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:50 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=958#comment-5239 Mr Wellington : This Bruno La Poubelle is a different Bruno La Poubelle to the Bruno La Poubelle who appears in "A Pilgrimage To Pointy Town". Apart from the fact that they are both named Bruno La Poubelle, they have little in common. Mr Wellington : This Bruno La Poubelle is a different Bruno La Poubelle to the Bruno La Poubelle who appears in “A Pilgrimage To Pointy Town”. Apart from the fact that they are both named Bruno La Poubelle, they have little in common.

]]> By: Trubott Wellington http://hootingyard.org/archives/958/comment-page-1#comment-5238 Trubott Wellington Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:01:32 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=958#comment-5238 Frank, was this "Bruno La Poubelle" the same Poubelle who was once the founder of Pointy-Town? I remember you wrote about him some months ago, and had the story re-published in your latest work of printed fiction. I have studied it extensively. It seems to me that this is wrestler was not the same man - or else you would have described him as a "Wrestling Champion and Civic Dignitary" - dignified he may be, I expect the Bruno La Poubelle who is the object of your admiration in this story would be more at home bludgeoning a rival pugilist than cutting ceremonial ribbons at a renovated home for orphans. Frank, was this “Bruno La Poubelle” the same Poubelle who was once the founder of Pointy-Town? I remember you wrote about him some months ago, and had the story re-published in your latest work of printed fiction.

I have studied it extensively.

It seems to me that this is wrestler was not the same man – or else you would have described him as a “Wrestling Champion and Civic Dignitary” – dignified he may be, I expect the Bruno La Poubelle who is the object of your admiration in this story would be more at home bludgeoning a rival pugilist than cutting ceremonial ribbons at a renovated home for orphans.

]]> By: John Barleycorn http://hootingyard.org/archives/958/comment-page-1#comment-5212 John Barleycorn Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:43:20 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=958#comment-5212 Where army parade grounds are fabricated from terracotta, it calls for an extraordinary degree of precision from the soldiers, who are required tostamp with as much force as would be expected on tarmacadam, but at the last moment to land their booted feet with the delicacy of a falling sparrow feather. Terracotta has been employed to instill just such discipline by martinets, blimps and popinjays throughout military history, largely as an expedient against the well-documented phenomena of bridges being rattled to oblivion by the synchronized stomp of a brigade of size 12s. Ironically it was just such a brigade, Her Majesty's own 14th Caparizoned Pompadours, who were charged with patrolling the expanse of London's majestic Millennium Bridge through the nights prior to its official opening, leading to a regrettable failure to highlight an intrinsic weakness of design once the cloddish hoi-polloi were unleashed on the ethereal structure. Where army parade grounds are fabricated from terracotta, it calls for an extraordinary degree of precision from the soldiers, who are required tostamp with as much force as would be expected on tarmacadam, but at the last moment to land their booted feet with the delicacy of a falling sparrow feather. Terracotta has been employed to instill just such discipline by martinets, blimps and popinjays throughout military history, largely as an expedient against the well-documented phenomena of bridges being rattled to oblivion by the synchronized stomp of a brigade of size 12s. Ironically it was just such a brigade, Her Majesty’s own 14th Caparizoned Pompadours, who were charged with patrolling the expanse of London’s majestic Millennium Bridge through the nights prior to its official opening, leading to a regrettable failure to highlight an intrinsic weakness of design once the cloddish hoi-polloi were unleashed on the ethereal structure.

]]> By: R http://hootingyard.org/archives/958/comment-page-1#comment-5199 R Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:03:25 +0000 http://www.hootingyard.org/?p=958#comment-5199 (This is not the first FK story I have read about turning into a beetle). I have always wanted to ask a shape-shifter what happens to pocket-contents following metamorphosis into a trouser-free creature. On this occasion, however – given the traumatic loss of the lozenge – it would be somewhat tactless to raise the matter, so I shall not do so. (This is not the first FK story I have read about turning into a beetle).

I have always wanted to ask a shape-shifter what happens to pocket-contents following metamorphosis into a trouser-free creature. On this occasion, however – given the traumatic loss of the lozenge – it would be somewhat tactless to raise the matter, so I shall not do so.

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