Since when did you need encouragement Rodent??!!
Mark, this is a saga that could occupy us for months.
Roger Collett
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:49 PM
Subject: Rodent's Return
>> Is the Rodent Dangermouse, by any chance?
>>
>> Candice
>
> More Dormouse than Dangermouse, alas.
>
> Perhaps even (re)Vole(ting).
>
> But, with thanks to those -- Barry, Roger, Peter, and now Candice -- who
> noted my return (though Roger may have noticed a more extended post about
> the same time on New Poetry) [and with less thanks to the person -- yes, you
> know who you are!-- who, backchannel, described my elegant extension of
> Mark's post, linking turtle pigeons to floating Dysons, as not simply folk
> etymology but as cod entomology. Hrumph!] ...
>
> However, to extend that "but" above, but.
>
> I've been slightly preoccupied with _A Blast For Blowens_, which is at long
> last beginning to be written (good -- from my point, at least), but (less
> good) now unnervingly stretches from the origins of cant in England in the
> 1530s to a series of historical novels, the last published just after the
> turn of the millennium, dealing with Sir John Fielding, blind magistrate of
> Bow Street and brother of the (in)famous novelist.
>
> Not to bore everyone (would I ever? especially as I've been warned not to),
> I won't even deploy the few tiny snippets of possibly original material that
> have turned up in the course of this. As, only last night, a few lines in
> Thomas Randolph's __Hey for Honesty, Down with Knavery_ (1650), or a
> singularly interesting short poem reported by Thomas Mount on the eve of his
> execution in Rhode Island in 1791, which indicates that American criminals
> in the late nineteenth century were aware of ballads being sung on the
> streets of London only ten years earlier.
>
> Unless, of course, I'm asked, pretty please.
>
> For now.
>
> Dun Rodenting
>
>> --- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Best line in the film:
>>>
>>> "I...have HAD...ENOUGH of...you!"
>>>
>>> Dominic
>
> snip ......
>
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