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what does that mean anyways?

what is this rimshot of which you speak?

[rimshot] = ba dum bump

That help?

Wayfarer wrote:

labrusca wrote:

Wayfarer wrote:...I shall henceforth have to call you Pug.

(High applause to anyone who gets the reference.)

"Glory Road" by Heinlein

Actually, no, sorry, never read that.

Nope, nope, nope, it's something else.

Geez, Glory Road is only about the progenitor of 99.9% of the fantasy/adventure type stories in existence. And it's a GREAT story. AND there is a "Pug" in the story, if only in a short, minor role. (muttermutter, darn kids don't know anything).

labrusca wrote:Geez, Glory Road is only about the progenitor of 99.9% of the fantasy/adventure type stories in existence.

Hmmmm... and I thought that claim belonged to Tolkien's work...? (That is, at least, what I seem to remember being told.)

labrusca wrote: (muttermutter, darn kids don't know anything).

Hey, not knowing this isn't the same as not knowing anything! So I have a range of knowledge that's shifted a bit so it doesn't include the usual stuff - oh well. Even if that range of knowledge is smaller than the usual - oh well. I still have my own range. Ask me about the works of C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and Calvin Miller, and I might do better.

I'll go ahead and tell what the reference was intended to be, though. The slave trader in the Lone Isles who captured Caspian, Edmund, Lucy, Eustace, and Reepicheep in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia) was named Pug.

Oh....that guy. In all honesty, that was a bit obscure.

They mentioned his name, what, once?

I was thinking of the apprentice magician-bat in the first book of Foster's Spellsinger books. I guess I just remember bats better than pirates...

Drat, I should have been the one to catch the reference. I just read the story not more than two weeks ago. Albeit, I just read all seven in the past two weeks in a frenzy of Narniadom. So the details have the tendancy to get a bit jumbled... Yeah, that's my excuse =^^;;

Kerry Skydancer wrote:They mentioned his name, what, once?

* Riffs through handy copy of the appropriate story *

Quick count give me fifteen times he is named in two chapters for roughly about three scenes. But I would agree he is not a major player in the story.

OK "Data" mode off...

Madmoonie wrote:Oh....that guy. In all honesty, that was a bit obscure.

Well, I knew it was obscure. That's why I said "high applause."

But in any case, obscure or not, that's the first thing the statement and picture Solidus posted made me think of. He may've had a short role, but he's still who I associated it with.

Geez, Solidus, how much did you *pay* Ralph, anyway?

maxgoof wrote:Geez, Solidus, how much did you *pay* Ralph, anyway?

A few souls of the damned.

SolidusRaccoon wrote:

maxgoof wrote:Geez, Solidus, how much did you *pay* Ralph, anyway?

A few souls of the damned.

What's the conversion rate on those?

I'd rather like to know the conversion rate on sol's soul

shyal_malkes wrote:I'd rather like to know the conversion rate on sol's soul

Well it is priceless, still have offers on it all the time. Even that guy in the red tights and the pitchfork is always after it. Heh, he once bet me I couldn't beat him with a fiddle. I took my fiddle and clocked him in the back of the head. That really made him mad, but I did win.

[double rimshot]

Rumor has it that he wouldn't pay his exorcist and was repossesed.

SolidusRaccoon wrote: Heh, he once bet me I couldn't beat him with a fiddle. I took my fiddle and clocked him in the back of the head. That really made him mad, but I did win.

Hey, now! Don't go ruining perfectly good violins on stupid bets! Next time just say "No bet," and leave the poor fiddle out of it.

Wayfarer Wrote:

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
Heh, he once bet me I couldn't beat him with a fiddle. I took my fiddle and clocked him in the back of the head. That really made him mad, but I did win.

Hey, now! Don't go ruining perfectly good violins on stupid bets! Next time just say "No bet," and leave the poor fiddle out of it.

Hey don't give Sol such a hard time. You know he was just fiddlin' around.

Jaydub wrote:Wayfarer Wrote:

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
Heh, he once bet me I couldn't beat him with a fiddle. I took my fiddle and clocked him in the back of the head. That really made him mad, but I did win.

Hey, now! Don't go ruining perfectly good violins on stupid bets! Next time just say "No bet," and leave the poor fiddle out of it.

Hey don't give Sol such a hard time. You know he was just fiddlin' around.

I wasn;t brave enough to post that pun.

SolidusRaccoon wrote:

Jaydub wrote:Wayfarer Wrote:

SolidusRaccoon wrote:
Heh, he once bet me I couldn't beat him with a fiddle. I took my fiddle and clocked him in the back of the head. That really made him mad, but I did win.

Hey, now! Don't go ruining perfectly good violins on stupid bets! Next time just say "No bet," and leave the poor fiddle out of it.

Hey don't give Sol such a hard time. You know he was just fiddlin' around.

I wasn;t brave enough to post that pun.

Were you afraid someone would string you up? Don't fret, they were just sounding you out. No off key remarks were made. They didn't have the (cat)gut for it. So bow out.