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# Works better vocally though....
Or pest. Maybe pest.

Or Yule offender. Nice and festive.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:18, archived)
# To be honest a completely different joke would work better vocally...
My grandfather was a mime artist you know, left me his briefcase when he died.

Could never get it home though.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:19, archived)
# Should I be ashamed that I giggled at that?
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:20, archived)
# Yes, yes you should. I have about a billion of these too.
I really need an excuse to go to Fosters and look round the English department for some phrasology books because writing wordplay is getting exponentially harder.

Also I now seem to have the skull from that image I did burnt into my retina, as it keeps appearing in the white on my screen.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:24, archived)
# I seem to remember my secondary school
having some interesting books on language, including some lovely old etymological dictionaries that smelt amazing.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:26, archived)
# I just need one with lots of phrases, idioms, proverbs and such in.
"You know what they say, pride comes before of lions." - so I can do things like that.

Also I swear Fosters was the really old bookshop near leicester square, but googlemap says there is no bookshop on the corner at all now.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:30, archived)
# Everything is changing.
The old bookshop in my town has gone, which is most annoying.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:33, archived)
# I think it's unlikely to have gone, as it was the oldest bookshop in London.
Foyles, doh.

Still, I don't see why googlemap didn't show it with all the others under bookshops.

Also I really need to start writing now, but I swear each chapter is getting harder and I think that the next chapter will be a cakewalk then it manages to be more ridiculously stupid to write than the last.
If anyone knows how to write a icy post alien sex atmosphere and still make it actually funny, you'll have to get in touch with me...
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:38, archived)
# Oh FOYLES.
Riiiight.

I've heard of that one.

Have you done bullet points to plan your chapters?
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:39, archived)
# The entire book is already written out in so much as the actual events (this is a rewrite remember)
It's just that making it funny, interesting or even vaguely well written is fucking difficult.

The original story made far too serious an attempt (and a really shit serious attempt at that) at showing the indecision in the main character's mind, and why despite the fact that an alien girl just jumped him and then cooked him breakfast afterwards he was still fairly nonplussed about the whole thing.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:44, archived)
# Sounds like all men to me.
Nonplussed, angry or pompous.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:46, archived)
# The main character was based on me.
So thanks for that one.

I still think terminal melacholy for a main character is a pretty brave choice though.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:53, archived)
# it bloody better be there
i love that shop :(
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:42, archived)
# I hate to appear incredibly obtuse
but I am, so that's life. I am quite sure that this is exquisitely amusing but I just don't get it. Enlighten me, please.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:37, archived)
# Which one, the mime or the -x joke?
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:40, archived)
# Damn
I was referring to the mime one, but both, actually. I must really be off form today.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:48, archived)
# -x would be pronounced minor sex, thus Minor sex appeal or the various other things which were said up dere^
And the mime thing refers to the old mime routine of having a suitcase/briefcase that is immovable and they end up fighting with. I would find a video of the routine but I can only seem to find ropes and ladders on youtube.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:52, archived)
# Thanks
It makes perfect sense now. I recall the mime now that you mention it and I should have got -x because I'm from the West Country originally.
(, Wed 21 May 2008, 15:24, archived)