Comments on: The Chessboard Queen

By: SI

SI — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:14:04 +0000

“Greatest thanks, my queen. Though, might I possibly ask for an apple thou hast not taken a large bite out of.”

By: Ron Obvious

Ron Obvious — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:53:33 +0000

Wait a tick, people actually buy this tripe?

By: CSA

CSA — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:26:26 +0000

Queen: Apple, to king-four
Knight: Dumb blonde. Fruit and vegetables are in checkers. This is chess… the game of kings! …and queens… and me…. i also saw the cook playing it
Queen: Oh… okay… Apple, to horsie-six
Knight: *sigh* Apples can’t move like that milady.

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:54:38 +0000

Ah yes, the Volkwagen Newman. Best car in its class for, er, Cool Luke Handling.

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42:39 +0000

It’s to hide her shame at being named after a Volkswagen people carrier.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42:19 +0000

Wish I’d been in the meeting that let that author type through.

‘The author’s name is Sharan Newman (yes Sharan not even Sharon) so lots of letters with perpendicular and angled uprights’

‘Cool! There’s this type that I’ve been dying to use that turns As and Ms and Ns into a forest of illegible strokes, kind of like a broken set of railings. The effect is even more remarkable if you only use capitals, really compress the type and have no spaces between the letters. It’ll look fantastic!’

‘It will?’

‘Oh yeah! And anyway who is she? No one would recognise her name even in they could read it.’

‘Uhhhh . . . OK’

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:36:23 +0000

Also: the ‘SHARAN’ in ‘SHARAN NEWMAN’ looks like an optical illusion

I mean, I think it says ‘SHARAN’. Maybe it’s SHWIM’. Or SHΛPWN.

By: Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:31:06 +0000

I think he is saying ‘yeah-yeah, chinny reckon.’

By: SI

SI — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:23:47 +0000

Didn’t Ken have black hair though?

*Coughs* Not that I would know…. I never played with Barbies… and that She-Ra doll I have is an action figure I tell ya! An action figure!!

By: James Lovegrove

James Lovegrove — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:06:10 +0000

It’s fantasy for Barbie fans.