On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:26:46 -0500, Tony Cooper
<tonycooper214@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:04:31 -0800 (PST), lar3ryca
><lar3ryca@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:00:35 AM UTC-6, Peter Moylan wrote:
>>> On 17/01/22 15:08, lar3ryca wrote:
>>> > On Sunday, January 16, 2022 at 6:06:41 PM UTC-6, Peter Moylan wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Most Australian east coast beaches were closed yesterday, because
>>> >> of the tsunami. The waves that reached us were not especially high,
>>> >> but apparently the undertoad was bad enough to make swimming
>>> >> unsafe.
>>> >
>>> > Ahh. Do you see the cartoon "Family Circus" in Australia? It used to
>>> > be carried in the newspapers here, and may still be.
>>> I don't know the cartoon. I got the undertoad from the book "The World
>>> According to Garp", which was a big hit in the late 1970s.
>>
>>Oh. I read that, and liked it almost as much as "Catch 22", but I don't
>>recall that word in it.
>>
>That just shows how reading interests vary. "Catch 22" is my all-time
>favorite book, and I still have the dog-eared paperback copy that I
>first read when taking the Chicago El to work and back.
>
>I made other riders nervous because I'd have to stop reading to
>control my laughter. Even with the book closed, I'd burst into
>laughter just recalling what I'd just read. The other passengers
>would move away from this guy who stared into space and broke out in
>convulsive laughter.

About "Catch 22": In junior-year English, I gave an oral book report
on it, reeling off anecdotes for upwards of a half hour.

Nobody else was eager to do theirs, and I was the star-student-who-
could get away with it. The stories were funny, so I kept didn't stop.
The occasion stuck in my mind because I was eventually interrupted
by the Principal -- He wanted to make some announcement. He
apologized for interrupting, but he had first waited a bit, then
cruised past more than once after stopping by other classes, and
I was still going.

That was long before I ever re-read any book. Those days, I
remembered details better than I do now. These days, I re-read
most fiction if it was very good, because I read too fast to think
enough about details and subtext on the first time through.

Maybe I will read "Catch 22" again.

>
>I could barely finish "The World According to Garp". Couldn't get
>into it. I tried Irving's "Hotel New Hampshire" and put it aside
>about a third of the way through and never finished it. Too bizarre.

One of the first books that I eventually re-read was "Cat's Cradle". I
was amazed at how much it seemed exactly the same as what I
remembered. Nothing new or different.

--
Rich Ulrich

On 18/01/22 12:12, Sam Plusnet wrote:
> On 18-Jan-22 0:54, Peter Moylan wrote:

>> I'm the author of a mailing list manager. The very roughly
>> equivalent software on Unix is called Majordomo, so I called mine
>> Major Major.
>>
> Can we hope for the revised Major —— de Coverley version?

I must admit that that's one character I'd completely forgotten about.

But no. If I wanted to rename it, I'd be leaning more towards General
Scheisskopf. And I probably won't rename it, because I would then need
to rewrite this page of the manual:

http://www.pmoylan.org/cgi-bin/readinf.cmd?English/major.inf+text+33

The home page for the program, in case anyone cares, is at

http://www.pmoylan.org/pages/os2/Major.html

--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW http://www.pmoylan.org

On 2022-01-17, Quinn C wrote:

> * Adam Funk:
>
>> On 2022-01-17, Quinn C wrote:
>>
>>> * Adam Funk:
>>>
>>>> On 2022-01-17, lar3ryca wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> When I was running my sign business, I was asked to do a boat name,
>>>>> "Undertoad". I remembered that cartoon, so rather than just use a stock
>>>>> font, I used Vag Rounded Bold, using all capitals, and modified the top
>>>>
>>>> I wondered if that suggestive font name was a typo.
>>>
>>> Indeed. it should really be kept at "VAG", at least. I might even have
>>> recognized that.
>>
>> I noticed some of the search hits had "VAG" & some had "Vag", but I
>> haven't spotted what it stands for yet.
>
> Volkswagen AG. I remember seeing it on car repair shops in Germany, but
> can't find such a sign now. They probably dropped that use of it.
>
><https://www.halldesigns.co.uk/ssl/digitecphoto/VW-Audi-VAG-Workshop-Banner.JPG>

OK, thanks.

--
she's as beautiful as a foot,
she heard someone say, the other day