Miss Clancy
Jyrki J.J. Kasvi
if this can be found from some FAQ, but this little detail has been
troubling me ever since I finished reading "Interesting Times": The
name _Clancy_ of Death's riders. My dictionaries (Webster & al.) do
not know the word and as non-native English speaker I haven't got the
foggiest idea about the meaning of the it ... exept that there must
be a laugh buried within it.
Thanks for your trouble,
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Bryan
In article <316BB6...@hut.fi>, "Jyrki J.J. Kasvi" (jyrki...@hut.fi) writes:
>I am sorry,
>
>if this can be found from some FAQ, but this little detail has been
>troubling me ever since I finished reading "Interesting Times": The
>name _Clancy_ of Death's riders. My dictionaries (Webster & al.) do
>not know the word and as non-native English speaker I haven't got the
>foggiest idea about the meaning of the it ... exept that there must
>be a laugh buried within it.
>
right, but in a very dull way.
Pcharn'kov!
--Bryan
Welcome to the Department of Redundancy Department!
John Fouhy
> >if this can be found from some FAQ, but this little detail has been
> >troubling me ever since I finished reading "Interesting Times": The
> >name _Clancy_ of Death's riders. My dictionaries (Webster & al.) do
> right, but in a very dull way.
Is that it??
I always thought the joke was just that all the others have impressive,
anthropomorphic-personification-type names, and that one had a totally-
unexpected-by-the-reader name that sounds like something you might give
to a pet lamb...
Scurra
>Er...there's Tom Clancy the war-novelist. He gets his facts mostly
>right, but in a very dull way.
As opposed to Jeffrey Archer who...
<rest of this article cut following sudden libel writ>
Scurra
The Bellinghman
I'd just like to point out that the recent biography of Archer has yet
to attract a single libel writ. Unfortunately, this is mostly because
it was wildly toned down before publication.
Oh, whoops.
Pretend I didn't say that, please.
Honestly, this post is forged.
OK, Jeffrey, would you *really* like some details coming out in court?
Alan
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Alan Bellingham: al...@doughnut.demon.co.uk
Ian Hogg
: I am sorry,
: if this can be found from some FAQ, but this little detail has been
: troubling me ever since I finished reading "Interesting Times": The
: name _Clancy_ of Death's riders. My dictionaries (Webster & al.) do
: not know the word and as non-native English speaker I haven't got the
: foggiest idea about the meaning of the it ... exept that there must
: be a laugh buried within it.
: Thanks for your trouble,
Well my own reading of this was War -> Clancy -> War books -> Tom
Clancy?
Just a thought!
Ian
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Victoria Martin
On 14 Apr 1996, John Fouhy wrote:
>
> I always thought the joke was just that all the others have impressive,
> anthropomorphic-personification-type names, and that one had a totally-
> unexpected-by-the-reader name that sounds like something you might give
> to a pet lamb...
>
>
Like the Hongs, the Tangs and the McSweeneys?
Victoria
Jan Eric Andersson
ehj...@tattoo.ed.ac.uk (Ian Hogg) wrote:
>Well my own reading of this was War -> Clancy -> War books -> Tom
>Clancy?
>Just a thought!
I also thought of Tom Clancy, but then again he writes more spy
stories than war books - "Red Storm Rising" and "Debt of Honour" are
AFAIK the only war stories he's written?
Perhaps the esteemed Mr. Pratchett would be kind enough to enlighten
us as to whom he had in mind - or if it just meant to be an amusing
wossname? :-)
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Jan Eric Andersson [E-Mail: jan...@login.eunet.no]
Oslo, Norway [http://login.eunet.no/~janeand]
Terry Pratchett
In article <317a46f7....@news.eunet.no>
jan...@login.eunet.no "Jan Eric Andersson" writes:
> Oook!
>
> ehj...@tattoo.ed.ac.uk (Ian Hogg) wrote:
> >Well my own reading of this was War -> Clancy -> War books -> Tom
> >Clancy?
> >Just a thought!
>
> I also thought of Tom Clancy, but then again he writes more spy
> stories than war books - "Red Storm Rising" and "Debt of Honour" are
> AFAIK the only war stories he's written?
>
> Perhaps the esteemed Mr. Pratchett would be kind enough to enlighten
> us as to whom he had in mind - or if it just meant to be an amusing
> wossname? :-)
I just thought it was a good name.
Terry Pratchett
Wolfgang Schelongowski
In <830476...@unseen.demon.co.uk> Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> writes:
[about the origins of Clancy, daughter of War]
>> Perhaps the esteemed Mr. Pratchett would be kind enough to enlighten
>> us as to whom he had in mind - or if it just meant to be an amusing
>> wossname? :-)
>I just thought it was a good name.
Awmegoat. I perceive hosts of threads like "Why did DNA choose 42?" of
a.f.douglas-adams at the horizon.
Now *please* everybody, DO NOT explain the real[tm] reasons why pterry
choose Clancy, pwetty please?
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Wolfgang Schelongowski w...@xivic.ruhr.de
Mustela locuta, causa finita. (With apologies to St. Chris)
Sten Thaning
Terry Pratchett <Ter...@unseen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Perhaps the esteemed Mr. Pratchett would be kind enough to enlighten
>> us as to whom he had in mind - or if it just meant to be an amusing
>> wossname? :-)
>I just thought it was a good name.
Now look what you did! You effectively killed what could have been a
great holy war in the history of A.F.P! We could have had endlessly
tirades about the significance, new, revolutionary theories about the
source, flame-wars between different sub-orders in The Order of
Clancy, and a jolly good time it would have been, too.
And then you just come and tell us the *facts* about it! Pffft. You...
(Suddenly remember to whom I am currently writing:)
<fx: Hands behind my back, looking down, my face blushing>
Not that You, in Your Almighty Wisdom, ever would be capable to error.
On the behalf of humanity, I am eternally grateful for you to have put
another piece of knowledge in our minds. I will now be strenghten in
my struggle (not that it is a struggle) to spread Your work to
yet-ignorant-human-beings.
A happy day I wish you.
- Sten Thaning (Sten.t...@mbox200.swipnet.se)