injustice..

[onebatmother]

but unjust...

I wonder why.

onebat. JV got those girn derivations from me.

Psst - onebat/threadworm. It's me - - Iorek.

It's horrid being anonymous. Even on an anonymous forum.

ooh yes thready, what is the right thing there? i would prob hesitate, then put ', please.' on the end. i dont know why that would satisfy me, but it would i feel.

(ditto Iorek - i keep wanting to preface each post with a list of previous names )

Now I am picturing you in an Oxbridge common room wearing a too-tight suit and peering at The Times pretending desperately not to be a polar bear.

Iorek! You've quite startled me, sir! Why the elaborate disguise?

But THREADIE, it's awful without a q mark! What you want is 'I'd be very grateful if you could email me your responses asap." You must have a q mark with your version. Must!

lol at leaning forward encouragingly.

Yes that's it! It does chafe rather.

I'm glad you are talking to me. I really thought I was being quite rude putting a snooty grammatical oar in and then pissing off to watch Harrison Ford.

Amphibimum! I'm so sorry, I've been sadly misinformed.

almost any suit would be too tight on a polar bear, wouldn't it?

Except a suit of home-forged armour. I did like those books.

not armour, obv. tis tailor made y'know.

oh i did the girn gin sod bush wank thing ages ago... JV is clearly a bandwagon jumper (am nappiesgalore attentionseeker )

What was your name before, amphibimum?

Onebat, I was reading Edward Lear to dd and was struck by what a good name Slingsby was. I suggested to dp that if we ever had another child, and if it were a boy, perhaps we might name him Slingsby, but he pooh-poohed the idea (rich! from one who says he favours Horatio!). So I decided to take it on myself.

i LOVE the expression pooh-poohed. love it! [easily pleased]

Slingsby

a-haa Amphibimum!
Actually, I think JV's are genuwine accidents, and they are always freakishly appropriate.

[bush] at fact that has never read the books. Sorry Iorek. In part it's because I know I would be disappointed by your alter ego [girn]

I mean in comparison to the MN version

I like 'rich!'. I also like 'fresh!'.

You wouldn't be disappointed.Iorek is the most sexually attractive polar bear in literature.

bush?

It is true. Iorek is undoubtedly the most sexually attractive polar bear in literature. Perhaps even the most attractive bear altogether in literature.

have never read edward lear, thanks for link slingsby/iorek (i have also bagged the name chocolatl btw)

oh my use of emoticon derivations was not accidental but contrived and done for amusement value, but sadly at a time i was doing far too much introspection and harsh self judgment and so i ceased on the grounds i didnt want to be seen by others to be quite so pathetically attention-seeking and one-trick ponyish as i judged myself to be.
accidental ones are funny and cool (imo )

I have to say that I read the first page and he did indeed seem very sexually attractive. I like sad men, and sad furry men are even better. DP has the beard of the singer from The Band.

Slingsby, I am enjoying Mr Lear, but am perplexed by this:

"[they found] veal-cutlets and a million of chocolate drops, and these afforded them sustenence for more than a month, during which time they pursued their voyage with the utmost delight and apathy."

The mis-spelling of sustenance aside, I have never heard 'apathy' used in this way.

no, i am stangely attracted to winnie the pooh. tho not remotely sexually i hasten to add... id do iorek (the bear obv) in a heartbeat, but id say i prob like pooh a little more... esp after reading the Tao of Pooh.

Yes. It is a slightly wearing but occasionally funny thing that he does of littering the story with misused words. I take it as a sort of joke about how small children only understand half of what you tell them, so it might as well be one long word as another.

yeah, what does apathy mean in that sentence?

ahhhh
i like that.