tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post2138396223391932358..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Scuffing, Slapping and ThuddingMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-13907224423762848552013-06-21T08:36:32.295+01:002013-06-21T08:36:32.295+01:00Yes, Terry was always very good on why everyone el...Yes, Terry was always very good on why everyone else was wrong. It's only in recent times that he's addresed the question of what, exactly, he felt that he was so right about. Why literature, why not stamps or football?<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-66480044563865716292013-06-21T07:13:58.983+01:002013-06-21T07:13:58.983+01:00I rummaged through the house and found that my mem...I rummaged through the house and found that my memory was a little faulty. The book was Literary Theory: An Introduction. But, he talks about how a structuralist critic would approach a story using two different axes. He finishes by saying "Flushed with triumph, the structuralist rearranges his rulers and reaches for the next story."<br />Well, it made me laugh.Brendinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442556958669427968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-49242358335633721962013-06-20T20:07:45.008+01:002013-06-20T20:07:45.008+01:00Dave,
Points of order -- through the chair, comra...Dave,<br /><br />Points of order -- through the chair, comrade!<br /><br />Though I doubt Martyn will take offence at any, ah, thinly-veiled reference to his hairline, since he raised the subject himself, recently...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-49934217593834468602013-06-20T19:12:34.377+01:002013-06-20T19:12:34.377+01:00Fair point, Mike but "badly" makes sense...Fair point, Mike but "badly" makes sense . . . only a point of order!<br /><br />Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-10253979000295911042013-06-20T18:27:29.478+01:002013-06-20T18:27:29.478+01:00Brendini,
One day, you'd better double-check ...Brendini,<br /><br />One day, you'd better double-check those jokes -- TE tended not to display his sense of humour in his writing...<br /><br />Dave,<br /><br />Not to mention the Marx Brothers, Monty Python and Hitchhiker's Guide... It's all here. No chatting with the other customers, btw.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-86127063972200467232013-06-20T18:14:37.592+01:002013-06-20T18:14:37.592+01:00Blimey, Mike, steady on: David Bowie, NME, Ian And...Blimey, Mike, steady on: David Bowie, NME, Ian Anderson and Jackson Browne all in one post. I think I'll have to lie down.<br /><br />I must admit, for Northern-ness I tend to prefer Maconie to Morley, much funnier. <br /><br />By the way, point of order, Martyn, is that "baldly" or "badly"?Dave Leekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971308602082668644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-86573729384950297142013-06-20T14:55:06.471+01:002013-06-20T14:55:06.471+01:00I shall ever be indebted to Terry Eagleton for mak...I shall ever be indebted to Terry Eagleton for making me laugh out loud while reading his book on Critical Theory. The man has a superb sense of the ridiculous.Brendinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442556958669427968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-11225854769115871162013-06-19T13:37:20.256+01:002013-06-19T13:37:20.256+01:00The sign by the side of the East Coast railway lin...The sign by the side of the East Coast railway line that tells you you're halfway between London and Embra is, IIRC, just after York.<br /><br />National newspaper journos are told never to talk baldly of "the north-east" because, of course, to people above Hadrian's Wall, the north-east is Aberdeen.<br /><br />MartynAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-38331042094278728982013-06-18T19:26:28.142+01:002013-06-18T19:26:28.142+01:00Ah, evidence of its existence...
I was startled b...Ah, evidence of its existence...<br /><br />I was startled by the unlikeliness of a blue sky photo posted on the Hat. Not a common occurrence. And I'm certain it has nothing to do with the frequency of this particular meteorological condition.<br /><br />Rain here too, for the third day in a row.Kent Wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440197819258194471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-31537756857247937442013-06-18T19:09:22.713+01:002013-06-18T19:09:22.713+01:00Kent,
Like seeing Elvis in the parking lot, I saw...Kent,<br /><br />Like seeing Elvis in the parking lot, I saw a blue sky at the weekend and grabbed the shot for the record.<br /><br />Raining again today.<br /><br />Mike Mike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-65393763556366179242013-06-18T16:59:07.073+01:002013-06-18T16:59:07.073+01:00A blue sky photo? Eegad! We're in blogland, ar...A blue sky photo? Eegad! We're in blogland, aren't we? So why not? I like the tire tracks...Kent Wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440197819258194471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-23145274554250193382013-06-17T22:02:19.220+01:002013-06-17T22:02:19.220+01:00Yes, the North is a pretty flexible concept -- aft...Yes, the North is a pretty flexible concept -- after all, Manchester is about, what, less than halfway up the whole island, and a good quarter of the length of England south of the Scottish border?<br /><br />I can feel a "luxury!" coming on... Call that "north"??<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-85298489456035877162013-06-17T21:40:18.932+01:002013-06-17T21:40:18.932+01:00I'm going to appropriate "slipshod lyrici...I'm going to appropriate "slipshod lyricism" and make it my own.<br /><br />Eagleton goes up in my estimation for remembering Northumberland. It's odd how 'up north' rarely includes anything beyond the Midlands. Certainly not the Lake District, which by some weird trick of Mobiusation, is usually seen as part of the Home Counties.<br />Struanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13263096707648672923noreply@blogger.com