tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post113574970748037705..comments2023-11-18T09:51:52.115+10:30Comments on Medlar Comfits: The first Onuspedia entry: 'Skwandro'anna tambourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-1168079583188889132007-01-06T21:03:00.000+10:302007-01-06T21:03:00.000+10:30Yes, indeed it is pitiful and very sad. But dry yo...Yes, indeed it is pitiful and very sad. <BR/><BR/>But dry your tears, fair lady: you who have rendered forth Skwandric studies to the contemporary gaze via this ethereal net of uncorporeal skeins... and hold firm to the hope that future bands of diligent persons will take up the threads and elevate the Aemetic.<BR/><BR/>CA<BR/>in awe of your<BR/>scholarshipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-1167906475339066592007-01-04T20:57:00.000+10:302007-01-04T20:57:00.000+10:30I'm swimming in tears!And to think that he went fo...I'm swimming in tears!<BR/><BR/>And to think that he went for such temporary, glittery, clammy upliftingness--as welcomed, yet doomed to be forgotten as a glass of beer when, oh! he could have had the fame of a scholar: a dried forget-me-not under glass.anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-1167902227371152572007-01-04T19:47:00.000+10:302007-01-04T19:47:00.000+10:30Many Thanks Ms Tambour,Nowadays it is sadly forgot...Many Thanks Ms Tambour,<BR/><BR/>Nowadays it is sadly forgotten that Sir Barry Humphries, AO, was a scholar of the Aemetic tongue in his undergraduate youth, and indeed coined the rather unseemly term "technicolor yawn' in his early ditty "Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea" - how far away from Lawrence's Arabian desserts!!<BR/><BR/>Having foregone the academic route and a life of selfless service to the lost worlds of the Aemetic, he lapsed into several confused states and jolly well made a spectacle of himself in the public realm, engaging in staged events.<BR/><BR/>Sad, so sad.<BR/><BR/>CA,<BR/>WarragulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-1167815692123787132007-01-03T19:44:00.000+10:302007-01-03T19:44:00.000+10:30I must rectify the Alasness. You have my word, and...I must rectify the Alasness. You have my word, and my humble apology for leaving them unmentioned. I beg laziness. It is sometimes difficult to know what an appropriate entry is, and whether to put in Lord Pemberton Gimble or Lord Pemberton Gimble gave me dyspepsia.anna tambourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01338581782386113668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078507.post-1167737708174347392007-01-02T22:05:00.000+10:302007-01-02T22:05:00.000+10:30It is indeed unusual to find such erudition, given...It is indeed unusual to find such erudition, given freely and with relish, in the blogosphere.<BR/><BR/>T.E. Lawrence, what a name to conjure with.<BR/><BR/>And Sir Geoffrey Gyre's work: such limpid prose, such seamless art.<BR/><BR/>But, no mention of Lord Pemberton Gimble? Alas.<BR/><BR/>Greetings and congratulations,<BR/><BR/>CA,<BR/>Warragul<BR/>AustraliaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com