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Arakpakpak!

"Arakpakpak" must be the latest addition to our string of acronyms?

Alt Righteous Anomalies/Krakatoa Peachy Arrogance/Keeping Peace And Kaka?

Actually, I picked it up while reading a Linguist's transcripts of some folk tales in Nuristan.
It seems these aristocrats were playing quoits (sp?) with cheese...
And one of the local gods got cheesed off and turned them into a duck or something and that is the sound the ducks make in the folk song...

And me, with my glossalia and onomatopeic fascination, I have fastened onto it...for the moment. Call it my word of the week.

I just like it!
Arakpakpak! Like the sound a playing card makes in a bicycle wheel!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A681563

Okay, that's as close as a final form as I can get it with two days of MLing and proofreading. I'm so tired of the thing, I'd rather write a sequel than do a second draft.

My hands are falling off from all those s...

And where is the indenting tag!? If I'm going to go to all this trouble for a sophisticated lie, I at least want indented paragraphs!

I feel like Gutenburg's printer's devil....

I'll play with an AGG/GAG page later.

This one's weird. A227341
Not just an informative paragraph describing tape in all its various forms. More interesting, this entry gives an alphabetical listing of every possible kind of tape that the author(s) could think of.

Maybe I should stop browsing the <./>randomnormalentry</.>s for awhile?

Must not be as random as we think. I saw that one, too.

I think we're bored. Time for some mayhem.

Hem....where's May?

Apologies to absent parties, but here is a bit of silliness on the joys of large dog ownership.

Intro:For those who have not had the joy, here is a small program to let you in on some of the comforts and envrironmental curiosities of owning a large dog. Pay heed. Very little of this is in jest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A421426

Lucinda and Sir Bossel have seen this before, but I hadn't.
I like it and I think it is just perfect for our little purposes.

But I would like the recipe!

Intro: Here is a short tale of a man and a pie. He yearns for it. His wife can't understand it. It is a dear memory, hardly to be put aside any time soon.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A580781

Remind me some time to tell you of the marvelous breaded fish sandwich I had at a Greyhound bus stop restaurant in North Little Rock, Arkansas at four in the morning. I still have the wrapper!

Here is a rhapsodaisical piece on the usefulness of Black to the writer. I do not know why I like it, perhaps you'all could tell me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A147467

Sorry, Jwf, no 'spring' pieces have sprang into view, yet, but I will keep trying.
Oh, for Zob's purposes, all these pieces where submitted in the early morning of 3/17/02
Intro to Black:
We each have our favorite colors. Some of us do not know why and others are aware of the associative reasons for their choices. This writer has a whole page of associations. What more can I do than shut up and let him tell you about it?

Another restaurant piece, this time from Beeblefish, in Ontario, Canada, known of song and fable.

There is an interesting little fact in this piece, let's see if you can catch it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A395075

No intro. Ask for it later.
I'm gonna go raid the fridge.

Here is a piece on a subject about which I nothing knew.

The Bach in New Zealand...misleading title.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A509087

Interesting little bit of information presented with a bit more competence than one usually finds with such subjects. I like it.

Here's a springy kind of an entry...if you look at it kind of sideways. And from a new researcher, yet!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A705520

Please find enclosed a 'binary poem'. What ever that means.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A334937

Intro:

Rhyme has a place in the scheme of things. If you find it, please tell me, as I've been having trouble parking mine. This collection of syllables rhymes. Bearably so. I guess that is the best we can expect.
It also tells an intelligible story. Which is not to be opposed with terrible, which it is, in a way.

I believe this to be an exercise in sequential art. I like to do it myself and I have examples dating back to the mid-eighties...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A659324

I'd like to get some other opinions before nominating this one: A710920 - An essay disputing the Intelligent Design theory.

It's an opinion piece, so would not be used in the Edited Guide. It's not earth-shattering, but not bad.

AGG/GAG should be able to publicize opinion-pieces without necessarily being closely associated with those views. Wouldn't want people to pigeon-hole us as being prejudiced in favor of FFFF (as much as I personally appreciate what FFFF represents).

Maybe this piece could be presented with balance and context by also nominating other entries on both sides of the debate. I'm sure I've seen some others floating around lately, mostly debating Evolution vs. Creationism.

Lucinda, you commented on this entry in AWW. What do you think? Is the piece not quite ready for prime-time? And what the hell is that "Anthropic" whatever you were talking about?

Lucinda's snowboarding in Munchen...I think.

This one seems familiar. Has it been nominated before?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A672707
"Riding the Iron Pigeon"

A tale of a tourist in the grip of the guidebook and the shoeless man with a shoebox. Suspense, rain, horror, rain, chickens, rain, an airline run out of a copybook....and horizantal rain, that isn't supposed to be there...

Well, Crud! Strike "Iron Pigeon"! It's in the Post this week!


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