"... The need to remain competitive keeps the profit margin small, and we also suffer the most ironic of marketing difficulties."It's so true!
"Which is?"
"Success"
"Don't like fat?"
"Hate it. My first wife loved it. It made us the perfect couple. All that was left of the joint was a bone."
"Loved fat?" she asked incredulously.
"Yes. Never ate anything else."
"Isn't that very unhealthy?"
"Very. She died."
Mary covered her mouth in embarrassment and went a deep shade of crimson.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know."
"It's okay. It was ten years, seven months and three days ago. I'm completely over it -"
why do we assume that humpty is an egg? the nursery rhyme never says anything about an egg - or anything egg related.
nef
It should be noted that it is not stated in the rhyme that Humpty Dumpty is an egg. In its first printed form in 1810, the rhyme is posed as a riddle and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person; the riddle being that whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.
Close - Caversham Heights is actually in the third Thursday Next book, The Well of Lost Plots. :) I would definitely recommend the Thursday Next series - I love the characters and ideas, and I love all the book references - I even enjoyed some of the references to books I hadn't read, though clearly there's others that I'm sure I completely missed. :Pjack and mary have a role in the second book as part of a story called 'caversham heights' (i think).
nef
*is struck by thought* OH! so Mary Mary is from Mary Mary quite contrary.. Oh. I see. *facepalms*
why do we assume that humpty is an egg? the nursery rhyme never says anything about an egg - or anything egg related.
nef
That is a very good point that I've never thought of before! And the more I think on it, the more I can't figure out why. I guess - it's something when you were little, and the visuals they provided with it (because, you know, being young it was all about the rhyme and the pretty pictures) are just what stick with us. mornirkirara
mornirkirara
I did not make the connection between Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack being a giant killer until the last two chapters of the book.
And nothing less ;) Perhaps it could be our second tagline :P I learn so much on here ;DOber.net is really good for my education!
Emi
"You're going to be okay, sir" ...
"Call me Jack," he whispered. "We've been through enough."
"You're going to be okay, Jack."
"I'll be honest, Mary --"
"-- You should call me by my first name too, Jack."
"Sorry. I'll be honest, Mary--"
"-- that's better."
