Re: Orycon 20 Filk News

On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Lea Rush wrote:

> At 10:38 PM 7/19/98 -0800, Jeff Hutchins wrote:

                                  ^^^^^^^^
	Whoah! Somebody's remailer screwed THAT up! 

> >John C. Bunnell intoned avuncularly:
>
> According to the American College Dictionary:
>
> avuncular (adj.) 1. of or pertaining to an uncle. 2. (humorous) of or
> pertaining to a pawnbroker.
>
> Is there something you haven't told us, John? ;)

        Okay, before I get John in trouble, let me explain exactly where that came from.

        Back when I was a more serious Trek geek than I am now (back when TNG was the only new Trek on TV), I saw the novelisation for "Relics" (The Scotty episode) which had come out a month before the episode and I thought, "Oh, I need to read this." It was written by Michael Jan Friedman and I should have known better.

        Anyway, he had written the following:

        "Laddie," the Scotsman intoned avuncularly.

        I thought, "WOW! That's a neat trick!" It's one of my examples of when authors who use thesauruses go BAD.

Jeff

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http://www.serv.net/~santa Received on 07/20/98