Mr Garrett said his own jaw had been broken in two places after he was attacked from behind.

I notice Mr Garrett has not backed this up by producing the original x-rays.

"Moscow!"

http://books.google.com/books?id=yL0fAQAAIAAJ&q=librarian#search_anchor

I have though invented a fun new drinking game involving snippet view on Google books. You have to guess if a…

Faux amis anyone?

Would anyone like to say these words out loud?

kite
where
angina
ware
mate

*and I really enjoyed her books

have to track down the moment he meets this lass and she answers him completely in city/country names

Aorta mica laura genst all these prairlers and sleshers an pervs. Aorta puttem in jile an shootem.

My parents had copies of Lets Stalk Strine and Nose Tone Unturned. They may have been formative.

Last time I passed through Te Puke I felt my gorge rise.

And something is rotten in the kingdom of ManureWa and whilst we are being fundimental. How can it take Tu tu kaka. Oh hang on, Timaru...
"Am I what?"

Thankfully not the case in my old department where the mortician of 20 years standing was Peter Cook

..well he did leave a great body of work
and Dudley, more...
:- )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9MJMOMufY

Nominative determinism was rife in my former department

Thankfully not the case in my old department where the mortician of 20 years standing was Peter Cook

Last time I passed through Te Puke
I felt my gorge rise.

did you pull over or heave to?
:- )

Reminds me (obliquely) of that Kiwi Classic
New Zild and how to speak it by Arch Acker*
and the adventures of the first female Rugby…

Owhata beautiful morning...

The Siamese notional anthem (from 3:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY

Until the last line, Ian, I didn't get it. I read it as Oh-farter.

Last time I passed through Te Puke I felt my gorge rise. Funny how I'd never noticed before.

I expect Bad Orb is famous for Bad Jokes.

with my bad Maori pronunciation I thought I was in a Rogers and Hammerstein musical when driving through Owhata...
Owhata Medical centre
Owhata Pharmacy
Owhata Bakery
O what a beautiful morning...

I found a van with advertising on the side, "Bad Design".

That has to be intentional. Design is not a German word. I expect Bad Orb is famous for Bad Jokes.

aptonyms

The evening TV news is often a good source of these, sometimes to the extent of doubting their veracity...

from underbelly to tripe?
...and now we have the phenomenon of adaptonyms : Australian actor Matthew Newton has moved from playing Mr Asia to becoming Mr Erasure!
from…

Nominative determinism

Aptronyms

Electrical Engineer: D.C Ripple Works at NIST in the US.

In Bad Orb, a small town east of Frankfurt, Germany. Lots of Bads around there. I found a van with advertising on the side, "Bad Design".

There was a motorcar company in Upper Hutt called…

It's the Universal Mind, maaaaan. Would that more of us could tap into it with such entertaining results.

Yes, the collective consciousness that will enjoy that entertainment. Would that more of us could huh, Mr Joe Wylie from behind the barn down on his knees. ;)
(That is a good movie)…

. . . I had wander off and check my bookcase for a similar short story. Ah, there it is, Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim (not David).

Not to mention the kind of inspiration that drives Claude Veillot's magnificently horrible The First Days of May (insect world domination, human body…

I wonder if Marianne and the giant bug could feature in another story with some of your characters from The Funeral? It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.

My God, that's a genius suggestion!

Russell Brown wrote:

... you would never have known from his demeanor on return…

I had wander off and check my bookcase for a similar short story. Ah, there it is, Mimic by Donald A. Wollheim

Dude, don't scare the crap out of me like that! I've never heard of Mimic or Donald A. Wollheim, but thankfully (from the…

She puts out her feelers with force;
Her thorax is waspish, of course.
As her worshipful drone,
I simper and moan
When she…

It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.

or The Wild Brunch

or Guess What's Coming to Dinner?

or Arthropod at the Round Table

It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.

or The Wild Brunch

That's what Filament really is about, isn't it? I mean, surely.

LOL.

insect erotica

That's what Filament really is about, isn't it? I mean, surely.

I wonder if Marianne and the giant bug could feature in another story with some of your characters from The Funeral?

It could be called Naked Afternoon Tea.

oops oops oops

archie who has partially conquered these new light--touch keyboards

I know I certainly didn't pick it.

Heh, I love that song. And now I have an extra vivid mental picture of 'mugwump jism', so... there's that.

We can fix that!
Dr Benway will see you now...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgpfmehW7iE

Mike Flaws

'Pon my soul I don't know the guy from a BP Weta. I was going for the funny....did you miss it.... :-(

Last century I did some work for Graeme Ramsay (Entomologist)

Ahem. Yes, he was my neighbour growing up. An extremely nice chap, and nothing like the party-going Gavin Ramsey (probably no relation).

Incidentally, Dr Graeme Ramsay had a couple of splendid Armstrong Siddeley cars, and once gave me a ride…

Ross Mason wrote

Well Bug ger me.

Mike Flaws was the department's microscopist

Oops! Mike Flaws really was the microscopist at one of my previous…

And since it's Friday.

Heh, I love that song. And now I have an extra vivid mental picture of 'mugwump jism', so... there's that.

I've tried every possible approach in finding Marianne — even to the extent of cashing in my superannuation account to hire private detectives.

Did they look in the Interzone?

And since it's Friday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX6RhNQY7DM

I have to wonder about how long the incubation period is, personally I suspect it's close to 9 years (or three terms).

Mike Flaws was the department's microscopist

"You mean Mr Perfect?"
"No, Flaws."

My research is mainly on Hemideina ricta — the Bank's Peninsula tree weta."

Shit....I lived in Little River for four years........he may have studied me.....

Since my release

Well David, at least YOU will…

I found myself standing at the drinks table beside her. It seemed courteous to introduce myself. "I work with Gavin Ramsay," I said.

Ahh – your first mistake. Having just re-watched Pride and Prejudice I'm led to believe etiquette requires that one should only ever be introduced by someone else…

The remake of "The Fly" meets "And All The Seas With Oysters."

Well done, sir.

I'd originally tried to submit it to the Journal of Insect Mimicry but they rejected it on the basis that it was already established knowledge (and, of course, that the article didn't contain enough sex with insects to…

He picked a Maybelline eyeliner from the drawer and stepped closer to the mirror. Shimmering Onyx. The perfect glossy black to distract attention from his compound eyes....

...Michael Laws curls his antennae into stylish sideburns, winks into the mirror and hisses "it's show…

I'm prepared to believe two data points are a coincidence, but it makes me wonder what David Slack may have filed…

a veritable Kafkanated Koffee Klatch...

at last a viable explanation for the enablers of the chittering classes...

...and now I understand my instinctive revulsion at Mike Yardley, Mike Hosking and their ilk!

Shoplifting Entomologist Explains: 'I Fought Giant Bug'.

I want that on a tshirt.

(We don't have Night 'n' Days in Auckland, do we?)