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| Feb-28-07 | | boz: <Kathleen Taylor adds...> Consequences schmonsequences. |
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Feb-28-07
 | | Domdaniel: <boz> Well, I suppose even Tarrasch could get it right *occasionally*, and may Saint Nimzo strike me dead if I... [expires, attended by Cherubim and Zugzwangs...] |
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| Feb-28-07 | | boz: <Domdaniel> Speaking of Nimzovitch, I always used to wonder why he stressed overprotection so obsessively (made him happy I guess) until finally it dawned on me. If I overprotect a pawn or critical square with a bishop, knight and rook when it is only attacked once, then my bishop, knight and rook are free. Overprotection sets you free. |
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Feb-28-07
| | Domdaniel: <boz> That is very true. In chess, anyway. Back in the world, overprotectiveness is more a neurosis. |
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| Feb-28-07 | | boz: <Domdaniel> All things bad in life are good in chess. Neuroses, paranoia, obsession, delusions of grandeur, greed, lust, cruelty...the stuff of champions. Of course it helps if you can calculate. |
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| Feb-28-07 | | mack: So what's all this frogs porn malarkey? |
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Mar-01-07
| | Domdaniel: <mack> Soup du Jour, is all. And in case anyone thinks the FROGSPAWN joke is original, it isn't. I stole it from Bill Hartston. Might be a good name for a zine devoted to the French Def, though. To balance things we'd need <1.c4, l'attaque rosbif> and <stupid openings #1: the Irish Gambit, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nxe5 ...> As its inventor is said to have admitted "I didn't see that the pawn was protected". |
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Mar-01-07
| | Domdaniel: <boz> - <All things bad in life are good in chess.> Also very true. I tend to find, for instance, that if I immobilize somebody completely then start to advance very slowly towards them brandishing a weapon... well, some folks might be alarmed, is all. |
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Mar-01-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: G'day, g'day <master domo> just getting up. I'm very excited about <Frogspawn>, can I write my first column for it today? Mrs. Frogspawn fan
Leicster (across the Channel) |
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Mar-01-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> G'day, majesty. I'm un peu giddy right now, just saw the most amazing film. French, naturellement. It's called <Paris Je t'Aime> -- like New York Stories only with 20 sections instead of four. Vast and incroyable cast, every director of note, wonderful stories, mimes, Oscar Wilde's ghost, l'accent de Denver, blind lovers, vampires, a tearful scene in a cafe near the Bastille I'm sure I know, Nick Nolte being cooler than ever, and more, and more, de plus. Synchronicity City. Funny, I haven't actually been there in ten years... Anyway, tomorrow I interview the producer, Claudie Ossard. Better keep my wits about me. Gather close, wits, you is needed... |
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Mar-01-07
| | Domdaniel: Uh, they wear polyester in Vancouver? I thought it was all silk, wool, leather and metal. Polyester. That would explain the comment made by a friend from Seattle whom I was showing round Dublin's legendary Temple Bar district. "Looks like Vancouver", he said. That settles it. I'm off to Paris... put the cost on my Frogspawn research tab... adieu, mes amis, et baisez les grenouilles. They might be royalty in disguise, see. |
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Mar-01-07
| | Domdaniel: - Ooh la la, C'est la revolution, ma reine!
- Qu'on est peon, il faut volver. Du pain, Marcel, s'il vous plait. Translated by Jem Parley-Shoze. |
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Mar-01-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Well done <Dom> Another merciless <film director review> sweep across Western Europe!!! |
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| Mar-02-07 | | twinlark: Speaking of frogs, how many canes could a cane toad can if a cane toad could can canes? |
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Mar-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <twinlark> Good stuff, that's the lead feature. A writer who knows how to meet a deadline, folks. Respect. <how many...?>
Um, as many as it can? Cannes? Can-can? Can Ada come out to play? - Cain and Abel, remarked Archer, were characters in one of humanity's greatest books. And, to go beyond my own modest oeuvre, also in the bible, I'm told. Denizen Kane. |
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Mar-02-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Very short play:
(knock on door)
(Jess runs quickly to door)
Jess: "<Enter>!" (<pants>) Delivery Guy: "Delivery!"
Jess: "<Oh!>"
Finit
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Mar-02-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> This is Canada, right? And it's a play? A stage-theatre thang, as conceived and invented by Bill Shagspere? And some Greeks, sure, but you don't give a credit to an Ancient Bubble... So, point is, shouldn't
<exit followed by a bear> be in thar somewhar? |
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Mar-02-07
| | Domdaniel: Also:
<enter> --- <pants> is open to multiple strong misreadings...
Hmm, didn't I write something once that sounded vaguely like... oops... |
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| Mar-02-07 | | Eyal: <A writer who knows how to meet a deadline, folks.> A deadline may have some truly miraculous powers - I've just noted that once again, in connection with some assignment I had to complete and that had simply refused to get done until the very last moment. "The gallows doth wonderfully concentrate the mind", as Dr. Johnson observed. |
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Mar-02-07
| | jessicafischerqueen: Ahhhhhhhh! <misprision> leads to <prison>, don't forget (looks left, right...)
<Eyal> well done on meeting your deadline! Yes that gallows comes in handy. We used to hang people here in Kanada, but apparently got bored of it. Now we just relax and let everyone zone out in front of the TV blocked up on anything they can get their hands on. More peaceful. |
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Mar-03-07
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> C'est fait. <Enterpants> is in the aether... be gentle with it. Drat. A pun what I missed, and in mine own scribblings, yet, even. Sigh. You sure got the drop on me, stranger. BTW, I've discovered the technical term for a <strong misreading> or mis-hearing of, eg, a line from a song, like Rosemary taking a cabbage into town. This is known as a Mondegreen. Somebody heard an Olde Ballade with the lines <They have slain the Earl of Moray/ And laid him on the green> as "They have slain the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen" ... conjuring up images of a beautiful, if somewhat dead, Scottish aristo. To Lady Mondegreen, then. At Oast!
It's not just songs. New Scientist magazine has a story about a child who returns home from school having been taught a prayer. (Those of you who live in countries with secular education systems may faint quietly at this point). "So, darling", said the (secular) mother, "What's the, um, prayer?" It's called Our Father, sez the sprog. And dutifully recites "Our father, which art in heaven, Allah be thy name..." Child abuse, interfaith dialog, or a simple Mondegreen? |
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| Mar-03-07 | | Eyal: <Somebody heard an Olde Ballade with the lines <They have slain the Earl of Moray/ And laid him on the green> as "They have slain the Earl of Moray, and Lady Mondegreen" ... conjuring up images of a beautiful, if somewhat dead, Scottish aristo.> That was essentially Raymond Roussel's method of writing, wasn't it? "Misreading" a standard idiom, expression, or poetic line, such as <Eut reçu pour hochet la couronne de Rome> From Hugo, turning it into
<Ursule brochet lac Huronne drome> And then constructing a fragment of a world in which the state of affairs projected by this reinterpreted line could occur. |
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Mar-03-07
| | Domdaniel: <Eyal> Yes, or sentences built entirely from homonyms, of which French has even more than English because of the way final syllables vanish. And Roussel also used words like 'espagnolette' which can be either a Spanish princess or a type of window, if memory serves. |
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| Mar-03-07 | | JoeWms: <Domdaniel> In my previous life as a verbatim reporter, a <Lady Mondegreen> event was an everyday happening. Here is one of those happenings. It was a contract dispute. The witness was testifying about the two million dollars he got from Miss Mitchell. We heard about Miss Mitchell a dozen or more times. Boring. I lost the thread almost from the very beginning. So I put the court reporter half of my brain on autopilot and let the other half fantasize about Miss Mitchell, a single chick with a bundle of money I could maybe hit on if she comes in as a witness and . . . A lawyer interrupted my reverie to ask me to mark a loan document as evidence in the case. I took the document and -- TILT! -- it was captioned <Massachusetts Mutual>. |
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Mar-03-07
| | Domdaniel: Ah yes, Massa Mutual. Great writer, didn't she do <Gone Off With the Breeze>? And that unforgettable line... - To be full and frank with you at this moment in time, Scarlett, I don't have a suitable window going forward. |
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