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godlyperspectiv: The Shakespearian Programming Language. (I'm thinking about tallin and hitchhiker and xb95 and all the other codegeeks I know right now ...
Second: Queen of All The Dustballs (and other epics of everyday life) is actually by BILL Richardson, who is from Vancouver (the real one, not the one in Washington - the one in Washington wants to be Portland and fails sadly at it). You must all find his book and purchase it now. It's sadly out of print but there are used copies to be had (I got mine at Alibris for $3.)
A brief excerpt from the title poem, posted in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
literaryquotes. Bob goes forth to battle the Queen.
"He smelled her ere he saw her and he gaped at what he saw:
A tangled mass of clinging dirt around a gaping maw.
She had a tumbling swagger and she had a taunting sneer:
She pulsed and loomed and then she boomed,
"HEY BOB! GET OVER HERE!"
"I SEE YOU'VE BROUGHT SOME TOYS ALONG IN ORDER TO DEFEAT ME!"
"IS THAT YOUR FAMOUS CREVICE TOOL?"
"OR ARE YOU PLEASED TO MEET ME?"
"Oh foul wretch," big Bob kvetched, "from what dank grave exhumed?"
"Now leave our land! No man will stand to hear his tool impugned!"
They're all like that. Go get it, really. It is a small and priceless book, full of funny and touching things. 'Uncle Tove' is worth the price of the book alone, just to see how often he can work 'anchovies' in.
godlyperspectiv: The Shakespearian Programming Language. (I'm thinking about tallin and hitchhiker and xb95 and all the other codegeeks I know right now ...Second: Queen of All The Dustballs (and other epics of everyday life) is actually by BILL Richardson, who is from Vancouver (the real one, not the one in Washington - the one in Washington wants to be Portland and fails sadly at it). You must all find his book and purchase it now. It's sadly out of print but there are used copies to be had (I got mine at Alibris for $3.)
A brief excerpt from the title poem, posted in
literaryquotes. Bob goes forth to battle the Queen."He smelled her ere he saw her and he gaped at what he saw:
A tangled mass of clinging dirt around a gaping maw.
She had a tumbling swagger and she had a taunting sneer:
She pulsed and loomed and then she boomed,
"HEY BOB! GET OVER HERE!"
"I SEE YOU'VE BROUGHT SOME TOYS ALONG IN ORDER TO DEFEAT ME!"
"IS THAT YOUR FAMOUS CREVICE TOOL?"
"OR ARE YOU PLEASED TO MEET ME?"
"Oh foul wretch," big Bob kvetched, "from what dank grave exhumed?"
"Now leave our land! No man will stand to hear his tool impugned!"
They're all like that. Go get it, really. It is a small and priceless book, full of funny and touching things. 'Uncle Tove' is worth the price of the book alone, just to see how often he can work 'anchovies' in.
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Notice the area is referred to as "Portland/Vancouver" rather than "Vancouver/Portland". :D
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