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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004[=SDC=] Totally Offical Teaser for January
Let's get the year off to a good start with the long-awaited... Totally Official Summer Doldrums Teaser for January: Peelers all What is the connection among Wally Whyton, John Crowley, and Bruce Sterling?  SignatureJerry Friedman > Let's get the year off to a good start with the long-awaited... > > Totally Official Summer Doldrums Teaser for January: Peelers all > > What is the connection among Wally Whyton, John Crowley, and Bruce > Sterling? Were there any replies to this? Is it time for a hint, Jerry? SignatureRegards John > > Let's get the year off to a good start with the long-awaited... > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Is it time for a hint, Jerry? No replies. The whole thing seems to have gone to sea. SignatureJerry Friedman >> Is it time for a hint, Jerry? > >No replies. The whole thing seems to have gone to sea. And is that the requested hint? SignatureKaty Jennison spamtrap: remove number to reply >>> Is it time for a hint, Jerry? >> >> No replies. The whole thing seems to have gone to sea. > > And is that the requested hint? Well, there is a connection, I think. SignatureSkitt (in Hayward, California) www.geocities.com/opus731/ > > > Let's get the year off to a good start with the long-awaited... > > > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > No replies. The whole thing seems to have gone to sea. Peeler: peel-er; policeman; plunderer; plant that impoverishes the soil Wally Whyton: b London 23 Sep 29; d London 22 Jan 97 bio: jazz; skiffle; Vipers with Johnny Martyn, Jean Van den Bosch, Tony Tolhurst and John Pilgrim; children's TV; Five O'Clock Show with puppets Pussycat Willum, Ollie Beak, Joe Crow and Spike McPike; folk/country radio DJ John Crowley: b 1942 Author of the novels Daemonomania; Love and Sleep; Aegypt; Little, Big; The Deep; Beasts; Engine Summer; The Translator Lives in Massachusetts; adjunct professor at Yale; biography "Snake's-Hands" Bruce Sterling: b Brownsville TX 14 Apr 54; lived in Galveston, India, Austin key words: Turkey City Writer's Workshop; shaper-mechanist universe; Cheap Truth; Vincent Omniveritas; cyberpunk; Chairman Bruce; steampunk; Dead Media Project; Viridian Design bibliography: Involution Ocean; The Artificial Kid; Islands in the Net; The Difference Engine; Heavy Weather; Holy Fire; Distraction; Zeitgeist; Semi No Jo-o; Globalhead; Schismatrix Plus; A Good Old-Fashioned Future; Mirrorshades; The Hacker Crackdown; The Scab's Progress; Tomorrow Now Adrian > > "John Holmes" <holmes@smart.net.au> wrote in message > news:<buljc8$n14$2@perki.connect.com.au>... [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Peeler: peel-er; policeman; plunderer; plant that impoverishes the soil ... > Bruce Sterling: b Brownsville TX 14 Apr 54; lived in Galveston, India, > Austin [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Jo-o; Globalhead; Schismatrix Plus; A Good Old-Fashioned Future; > Mirrorshades; The Hacker Crackdown; The Scab's Progress; Tomorrow Now Oh for gosh sakes! I didn't mean Bruce Sterling--I meant Neal Stephenson! Totally different people. That should make it a lot easier. I apologize to all the people who have been struggling to fit Sterling into it. Though there's probably a connection somewhere. In order to pick up that bollock, I'll add a second hint: Wedding plans seem to be imminent. SignatureJerry Friedman |
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