Creek Running North

Wonderful, Chris! Congratulations on good work getting noticed!

And yeah, I thought I was in an AOL or YouTube comment thread there for a second. But I liked the very British smackdowns of MindYourOwnBusiness and gunnison.

And I’d thought Piltdown Man a hoax.

Lovely piece, Chris.  And just to let you know that at least some yellow freesias retain their scent: I’ve had a pot of them overwhelming my living room for the past two weeks.  They hold their own against the orange and lemon trees outside. Walking through my front door is moving between scentospheres. (A word to go along with poetophobes, hee!)

I don’t think you’ve really lived until you’ve been called a wanker.

“pretentious wanker” is even better. But the sad bastard couldn’t even spell “pseuds”.

Congrats on getting into the Grauniad, Chris!

Well, to be precise, I’ve achieved a couple of the above-mentioned achievements before: my writing has appeared in the Grauniad before (see here) and I’ve been called a wanker before (see entire history of Usenet).

Don’t know that I’ve been called a pretentious wanker before, though, which practice I suspect involves an extended digitus minimus.

That above sentence is pretentious too, but there’s no way I was going to use the word “pinky” there. I know you all far too well.

That was so funny, he sounded so closeted… like the men in Monty Python: “NOOOOOOOOOO POOFTERS!!!1!1”