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David Mitchell
May 5, 2012, 1:53:24 PM5/5/12
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Hi,
With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
Name that book:
"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
--
David Mitchell
No, not that one.
With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
Name that book:
"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
--
David Mitchell
No, not that one.
ppint. at pplay
May 5, 2012, 12:20:03 PM5/5/12
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- hi, pal; in article,
<RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
[dunno whether this was a yasid]
- my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
the mid-seventies on).
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
"the life of a vegetable is of no interest whatsoever,
and this includes, to the vegetable in question
- i speak from experience."
- yr hmbl srppnt, c. autumn 1990
<RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
[dunno whether this was a yasid]
>With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>
>Name that book:
>"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
- *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
>Name that book:
>"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
- my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
the mid-seventies on).
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
"the life of a vegetable is of no interest whatsoever,
and this includes, to the vegetable in question
- i speak from experience."
- yr hmbl srppnt, c. autumn 1990
Brenda Clough
May 5, 2012, 9:43:44 PM5/5/12
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On 5/5/2012 12:20 PM, ppint. at pplay wrote:
> - hi, pal; in article,
> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>
>> Name that book:
>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
> the mid-seventies on).
>
> - love, ppint.
> [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
Geez, you are good.
> - hi, pal; in article,
> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>
>> Name that book:
>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
> the mid-seventies on).
>
> - love, ppint.
> [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
Brenda
--
My latest novel SPEAK TO OUR DESIRES is available exclusively from Book
View Cafe.
http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Brenda-Clough/Novels/Speak-to-Our-Desires-Chapter-01
Cryptoengineer
May 5, 2012, 10:52:12 PM5/5/12
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On May 5, 9:43 pm, Brenda Clough <BrendaWri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/2012 12:20 PM, ppint. at pplay wrote:
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> > - hi, pal; in article,
> > <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjSnZ2dnUVZ8gWdn...@brightview.co.uk>
> On 5/5/2012 12:20 PM, ppint. at pplay wrote:
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> > - hi, pal; in article,
> > david.robot.mitch...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
> > [dunno whether this was a yasid]
> >> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>
> >> Name that book:
> >> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> > - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> > - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
> > to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
> > the mid-seventies on).
>
> > - love, ppint.
> > [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
>
> Geez, you are good.
I'll say. From where I sit, Brenda posted her query at 1:53 PM, and
> >> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>
> >> Name that book:
> >> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> > - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> > - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
> > to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
> > the mid-seventies on).
>
> > - love, ppint.
> > [drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
>
> Geez, you are good.
the response came at 12:20.
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David Mitchell
May 6, 2012, 2:34:40 AM5/6/12
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On 05/05/12 17:20, ppint. at pplay wrote:
> - hi, pal; in article,
> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>
>> Name that book:
>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> - my all-time favourite simak novel.
Mine too.
> - hi, pal; in article,
> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>
>> Name that book:
>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>
> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>
> - my all-time favourite simak novel.
I'm also impressed that you manage to post your reply 93 minutes before
I posed the question. ;-)
ppint. at pplay
May 6, 2012, 7:41:26 AM5/6/12
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- hi; in article, <jo4l0g$r4$1...@dont-email.me>,
Brenda...@yahoo.com "Brenda Clough" kindly complimented:
- mental fx: little seated bow
- thank-you; though arguably i had a little advantage in
identifying and placing this particular quotation :-) ([a])
- the pinkness is certainly not a typical alien from any of
sf's various schools, clubs, claques, or waves [b] of the
past fifty to seventy years: but nor was simak a typical sf
writer once he developed his own voice. there are others
with whose work one can make sensible comparisons, but as
much to demonstrate differences, as to spot similarities;
and they, too, tend to be distinctively far from any herd.
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
[a] - but can i really take full credit for what my memory
chooses to glom onto - can anyone - ?
[b] - no egg-kings were broken (or even slightly boiled)...
--
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"No creature without tentacles [] ever developed true intelligence."
- "Hunting Problem" Robert Sheckley
Brenda...@yahoo.com "Brenda Clough" kindly complimented:
> ppint. at pplay wrote:
>> - hi, pal;
>> - hi, pal;
>> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>>With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>
>>>Name that book:
>>>"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>
>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>
>> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
>> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
>> the mid-seventies on).
>
>Geez, you are good.
>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>>With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>
>>>Name that book:
>>>"Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>
>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>
>> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
>> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
>> the mid-seventies on).
>
- mental fx: little seated bow
- thank-you; though arguably i had a little advantage in
identifying and placing this particular quotation :-) ([a])
- the pinkness is certainly not a typical alien from any of
sf's various schools, clubs, claques, or waves [b] of the
past fifty to seventy years: but nor was simak a typical sf
writer once he developed his own voice. there are others
with whose work one can make sensible comparisons, but as
much to demonstrate differences, as to spot similarities;
and they, too, tend to be distinctively far from any herd.
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
chooses to glom onto - can anyone - ?
[b] - no egg-kings were broken (or even slightly boiled)...
--
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"No creature without tentacles [] ever developed true intelligence."
- "Hunting Problem" Robert Sheckley
ppint. at pplay
May 5, 2012, 11:18:51 PM5/5/12
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- hi; in article,
<83a53f86-e996-4823...@bh8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
pete...@gmail.com "Cryptoengineer" observed:
statement in the title of the identified novel...
- love, ppint.
(- oh; n.b. the original query was david mitchell's, and
not brenda's - unless this be a nom-d'electron of hers)
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
"I'm not back yet !"
- suzi the official i.m.t. dominatrix,
the second discworld convention, the adelphi hotel, liverpool
18-21/9/98 (9/18-21/98 for merkins)
<83a53f86-e996-4823...@bh8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
pete...@gmail.com "Cryptoengineer" observed:
> Brenda Clough <BrendaWri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ppint. at pplay wrote:
>>> - hi, pal; in article,
>>> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjSnZ2dnUVZ8gWdn...@brightview.co.uk>
>>> david.robot.mitch...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
>>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>> Name that book:
>>>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>>
>>> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
>>> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
>>> the mid-seventies on).
>>
>> ppint. at pplay wrote:
>>> - hi, pal; in article,
>>> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjSnZ2dnUVZ8gWdn...@brightview.co.uk>
>>> david.robot.mitch...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
>>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>> Name that book:
>>>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>>
>>> - my all-time favourite simak novel. i was really chuffed
>>> to be able to get his work back into print in the uk (from
>>> the mid-seventies on).
>>
>> Geez, you are good.
>
>I'll say. From where I sit, Brenda posted her query at 1:53 PM, and
>the response came at 12:20.
- /me directs the previous contributor's attention to the
>
>I'll say. From where I sit, Brenda posted her query at 1:53 PM, and
>the response came at 12:20.
statement in the title of the identified novel...
- love, ppint.
(- oh; n.b. the original query was david mitchell's, and
not brenda's - unless this be a nom-d'electron of hers)
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
"I'm not back yet !"
- suzi the official i.m.t. dominatrix,
the second discworld convention, the adelphi hotel, liverpool
18-21/9/98 (9/18-21/98 for merkins)
Brenda Clough
May 6, 2012, 8:45:47 PM5/6/12
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to, say, bet upon the winner of the Kentucky Derby or something.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
May 7, 2012, 9:29:55 AM5/7/12
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On Sun, 06 May 2012 07:34:40 +0100, David Mitchell
<david.robo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 05/05/12 17:20, ppint. at pplay wrote:
>> - hi, pal; in article,
>> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
>> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>
>>> Name that book:
>>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>
>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>
>> - my all-time favourite simak novel.
>
>Mine too.
Likewise. My original paperback fell apart from re-reading, I had to
<david.robo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 05/05/12 17:20, ppint. at pplay wrote:
>> - hi, pal; in article,
>> <RcOdnR98RZ2J9DjS...@brightview.co.uk>
>> david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" challenged:
>> [dunno whether this was a yasid]
>>> With apologies for any inaccuracy, it's from fond memory.
>>>
>>> Name that book:
>>> "Hi Pal", it said, "I trade with you my mind"
>>
>> - *g* - _Time is the Simplest Thing_ by clifford simak.
>>
>> - my all-time favourite simak novel.
>
>Mine too.
get another.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
"If this crazy idealistic 'dont-eat-people' idea of yours was to catch
on, I just don't know where we would all be. Fortunately, I suppose it
catching on isn't really very likely -- why, you might just as well go
around saying 'Don't fight people'..." -- Flanders & Swann
ppint. at pplay
May 6, 2012, 1:01:19 AM5/6/12
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- hi; in article,
<nOidnb_PAdMdhjvS...@brightview.co.uk>,
david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" observed:
- *g*
- "Leg. Forst.", perh? (- [a])
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
[a] - "I like rhetorical questions;
I usually get them right."
- joann l.dominik, 6/95
<nOidnb_PAdMdhjvS...@brightview.co.uk>,
david.robo...@gmail.com "David Mitchell" observed:
- "Leg. Forst.", perh? (- [a])
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
I usually get them right."
- joann l.dominik, 6/95
ppint. at pplay
May 8, 2012, 8:05:03 AM5/8/12
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- hi; in article, <jo75vs$vmf$1...@dont-email.me>,
Brenda...@yahoo.com "Brenda Clough" speculated:
- o mores!
- o tempora!
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
--
"Incipient Doldrums."
- roger thomas, 19/3/97 (3/19/97 for merkins)
Brenda...@yahoo.com "Brenda Clough" speculated:
> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>From where I sit, Brenda posted her query at 1:53 PM, and the response
>>came at 12:20.
>
>>From where I sit, Brenda posted her query at 1:53 PM, and the response
>>came at 12:20.
>
>You would think it would be more lucrative to use this small time window
>to, say, bet upon the winner of the Kentucky Derby or something.
- hmmm? - your commanding urge is your lust for lucre?
>to, say, bet upon the winner of the Kentucky Derby or something.
- o mores!
- o tempora!
- love, ppint.
[drop the "v", and change the "f" to a "g", to email or cc.]
"Incipient Doldrums."
- roger thomas, 19/3/97 (3/19/97 for merkins)
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