Comments for Hooting Yard

Comment on A Drop Of Goodly Ditch Water by Brit

Brit — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:28:30 +0000

Where, apart from the radio football reports of Stuart Hall and the darts commentary of Sid Waddell, can one find such linguistic grandeur in today’s media outlets? Nowhere, that’s where.

Comment on The Flanders Air by Trubott Wellington

Trubott Wellington — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:01:36 +0000

It had never occurred to me to connect you with Belgium – not once before today have you suggested any kind of connection at all with that great and most central of nations. Why?

Comment on A Startling Number Of Eggs by Richard Carter, FCD

Richard Carter, FCD — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:40:53 +0000

Sadly, Orwell recorded the abandonment of his egg-count in his diary entry for 13th March, 1940:

…Have now lost accurate count of the eggs & shall have to close the egg-account book, which however gives an accurate account stretching over 7 months, useful for future reference. From the mikman’s account it appears the hens have laid 270 eggs since 29.1.40 (6 weeks about). Yesterday 10. It is now difficult to sell eggs, as there is a glut, so shall put some in water-glass.
http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/13-3-40/

Comment on The Flanders Air by Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land)

Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:26:44 +0000

I wish you, Mr.Key, prodigious enjoyments in Flanders.

Comment on Candide Camera by william

william — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:08:18 +0000

What a coincidence – all those references to insouciance all in one day. a friend of mine doing a book recording asked me on the mobile this morning how to pronounce it and i insoushantly said insoushant by analogy with associate etc. Now it turns out that insousiant is the way to say it!

Comment on Adjectival Ethereality by Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:09:32 +0000

Is one allowed to read Lolita nowadays without getting one’s name on a list..?
Is Lolita txt spk for Laugh Out Loud In The Attic..?

O.S.M.

Comment on Bairdboard Bombardment Box by Outa_Spaceman

Outa_Spaceman — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:06:35 +0000

Put like that Mr. (I went to school with him y’know) Jennings, that we shall never see Oliver Postgate’s Hooting Yard makes me sadder than the death of monkeys …

O.S.M.

Comment on Bairdboard Bombardment Box by Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land)

Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:15:27 +0000

The only part of it doesn’t bear thinking about is the sad fact that it is too late.

The Saga of Noggin The Nog… Ivor The Engine… Hooting Yard

It would have seemed a natural progression, an evolution.

O Postgate! That Thou Were With Us Still!

Comment on Adjectival Ethereality by Frank Key

Frank Key — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:06:52 +0000

Mr J. : I agr

Comment on Adjectival Ethereality by Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land)

Mike Jennings (Exiled to a Pompous Land) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:05:11 +0000

If nothing else, Mr.Adair ought to be a candidate for sainthood for his translation of George Perec’s ‘La Disparition’ as ‘A Void’.

Translating a novel written in french without the letter ‘e’ into english also without the letter ‘e’and still remaining readable is a remarkable achievement.