Jan 25
Nigel Comments: Pish Posh and Balderdash! Let me finish off this doobie and I’ll conjure up another curious quest tale.
“It was a dark and stormy night …”
Published 1986
GSS Admin: Here’s the original artwork. Can’t find a higher resolution though.
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January 25th, 2018 at 10:46 am
This is the reason Downton Abbey was cancelled.
January 25th, 2018 at 12:20 pm
Seems that doobie is laced with angel dust.
January 25th, 2018 at 12:35 pm
Either my brain is melting or this cover is. Come to think of it, it’s probably both. Possibly it’s contagious*. Run!
*I think this is what Ebola of the brain feels like.
January 25th, 2018 at 12:36 pm
Ah yes FFellows, I know the man, loved to smoke cigars and rapier horses.
January 25th, 2018 at 12:43 pm
Brigadier Ffellowes, the Fflashman of Ffantasy books.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:06 pm
How much does one of those silent F’s cost? I’m thinking of having one added.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:35 pm
Two lower case ‘f’s cost slightly more than one upper case ‘f’, but at least your name will keep working if one of them ffails.
January 25th, 2018 at 1:43 pm
Shouldn’t that be “ffellowes”?
January 25th, 2018 at 1:53 pm
When you want quality in double effs the name is ffolkes.
http://thenewbev.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ffolkes-featured.jpg
January 25th, 2018 at 1:54 pm
A curious bbrigadier, FFelllowes
Was ffeeling a little bit mmellowe
He ppuffed on his wweed
And sskewered his ssteed
Then sskulked away to a bbbordello
January 25th, 2018 at 2:16 pm
So how does one actually pronounce Ffellows? Is the F silent?
January 25th, 2018 at 3:56 pm
@SI: ‘Ellows, mate.
January 25th, 2018 at 4:45 pm
@Si: C. Alberga is right, it ought to be two lower-case fs. In Welsh (it being a different language) you get a lot of that. One f on its own doing the work of the johnny-come-lately ‘v’ seems to work for them.
Sterling E Lanier wasn’t Welsh, though. He wasn’t even English, despite years at Harvard mixing with wannabe toffs.
January 25th, 2018 at 5:44 pm
“So there I was! Deep in the heart of Crow Kingdom armed only with my Webley and facing down the most fearsome crow-beast in naught my skivvies!”
“Goodness, sir, what DID you do?”
January 25th, 2018 at 6:42 pm
The Downton Abbey Halloween Special
January 25th, 2018 at 7:40 pm
The Brig loves it when a plan comes together.
January 25th, 2018 at 8:28 pm
Don’t really see what the problem is. Haven’t read this myself, but if the Wikipedia article is accurate (fantasy stories framed as tall tales told in bars and clubs), then it seems pretty fitting. And why do people keep mentioning Downton Abbey?
January 25th, 2018 at 9:51 pm
@B.Chiclitz – Good Ode Sir!
January 26th, 2018 at 1:01 am
@Ray P: Yes he does.
I’m not sure what that man with the sword expects to do against a horse-riding demon, given it’s a rapier.
The smoking man’s lack of moustache is another mystery.
January 26th, 2018 at 4:38 am
@VCXZ – It’s why we’re here. But thanks for your comments. I look at this site and ask myself “why” pretty much every day.
January 26th, 2018 at 4:48 am
@JuanPaul
“Goodness gracious sir! Why was the fearsome crow-beast wearing your skivvies?”
January 26th, 2018 at 5:36 am
@VCXZ: there are two reasons: one is that this is an American trotting out dated and inaccurate cliches about England (you’ll see from the url that this is a UK-based site) and that can be irritating in the extreme..The other is the name ffellowes/ Fellowes,as in ‘Julian’.
January 26th, 2018 at 10:39 am
@Tat #22: I think it’s Julian’s disembodied, cigar-chomping head looking like a Texas oilman. Also, no Brit would use the word “skivvies” to describe their underpants, but I see what we’re doing here, it’s meta-commentary on the inaccurate text of the novel. Very smart!
January 26th, 2018 at 3:15 pm
@Tat #13 I believe that the initial “ff” is the capital of “f” in one of the earlier (say 1500s) forms of handwriting. I think it might be Secretarial, but I don’t have my source handy.
January 26th, 2018 at 4:26 pm
@THX 1138: no Englishman (although the word might cover housemaids and washerwomen) and nobody before WWI as far as I can work out , so Bibliomancer covered the anachronism portfolio as well.
Good show.
January 27th, 2018 at 9:06 am
So this is like the English version of a Baen book cover?
I’m fflabberghasted.
In what curious quest was his head fflattened sideways?