Now everyone has ten zillion cable channels. I saw an advert recently telling how to bookmark your fifty favorite channels.

<Dom> I'm afraid I'm going to have to have you arrested for frequent references to <HOD> and attendant bibliographical info about <Conrad in the Jungle>!!

<du Calme> indeed. (measures cranium)

"I don't know. None of them ever comes back."

HAHAHAHAHA

OK then <SP> (smarty pants) time for..

the COUNT THE THRESHOLD GUARDIANS GAME

Most tragedies feature one threshold guardian.

But <Heart of Darkness> has multiple <TGs>.

I'll be very impressed if you got them all.

1. The Dr. who counsels <du Calme>

Now, the rest, please.

I had accidentally said the right thing, although he could not possibly have been more irretrievably lost than he was at that very moment...

1. The old knitting lady

2. The Russian harlequin

3. The maker of bricks (probably not)

Trick Question!!

Every single person Marlowe meets before he actually meets Kurtz can accurately fit the criteria for defining a threshold guardian.

The idea being, the experience of the Congo and Kurtz is so horrendous that even the Damned stand up and say, "don't go there.'

So your "um" scores here.

Half point off only- There are two knitting ladies, dressed in black. Obvious allusion to the Greek Fates, minus one.

Well done, well done.

NOt the part where the other bloke is frame narrating.

Good defence of <snooker> thread, <Dom>. But here's the real secret:

Snooker, Golf, Curling, Hurling, Shuffleboard, and Cricket are all actuallly very exciting to watch

IF YOU GET REALLY, REALLY BLOCKED UP FIRST!!

hahahah

Jess of the I wonder where the Heck my moms went we're supposed to be gardening maybe i should get up before noon squad,

Special getting on <Dom's tits> division.

Um.

BTW, "du calme" wasn't a (deliberate) Conrad quote. A friend of mine used to say it to her cat, or indeed anyone else who spoke up. But the fact that I'd read the book again may have triggered the appropriate <calme> neuron.

That would be, eh, beta-blockers? I think they've been banned in snooker on account of how they steady a chap's hand.

Intravenous concrete is still OK, though.

Erie not Part of Britain!!

(seems like grounds for a really nationalistic anthem, no?)

And it may be easier to implement in places like NZ where the nearest neighbors are well over the horizon. In Yurp they breathe their garlicky breath over your shoulder... here's yet another NZ Ant-Hum ...

I though Mexicans spoke Spanish?

And

WHAT THE HELL IS A GMNS???

I think you should copy/paste your two posts complaining of his abandonment of the King's English, even though WE (not you though) currently have a Queen as TITULAR head of state.

Hahahah TITULAR sounds so much better than "nominal."

Wonder why?

Jess of the Urging Dom to make trouble squad.

Special GMNS division

PS Dom I think you'd really love <The Chess Artist>, that book I just read.

Very good book on the "sorrow and pity" of chess, and its ability to capture the time, energy, and even soul of people, the vast majority of whom will never become Experts, let alone Masters.

Very good book.

Loooong time.

And we have low taxes!!!

Ingrates.

- Never mind, sir, there'll be another one along later.

But she doesn't live there either.

<Cohen's> friend <Myokio>, who I had to pleasure of speaking to several times, is an old friend of the family who runs a full time <Zen Buddhism> center from the house.

The only time Cohen goes there is to Meditate on visits to the city, which are very rare.

My friend Andrew regularly went to Morning Meditation there and in the course of a year met Cohen twice.

Cohen Meditates with sunglasses on!!!

He has residences in Californa and Europe.

He has no residence in Canada any longer.