Comments on: Ansible 234 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2007/01/14/ansible-234/ Writer, critic, and editor of Ansible Sat, 19 May 2012 09:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: David Langford http://davidlangford.co.uk/2007/01/14/ansible-234/#comment-4 David Langford Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:58:10 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2007/01/14/ansible-234/#comment-4 Good heavens, the first real comment! Thanks, Kathryn, and welcome. I have a file of material that doesn't quite meet Thog's criteria. Greg Frost sent this quote from an article on overrated books of the year: "[H]e was so nervous that he was a bundle of nerves." (Mihir Bose, <i>Bollywood</i>) Clumsy, yes, but non-genre authors must commit funnier gaffes than that to make it into the Masterclass. Good heavens, the first real comment! Thanks, Kathryn, and welcome.

I have a file of material that doesn’t quite meet Thog’s criteria. Greg Frost sent this quote from an article on overrated books of the year: “[H]e was so nervous that he was a bundle of nerves.” (Mihir Bose, Bollywood) Clumsy, yes, but non-genre authors must commit funnier gaffes than that to make it into the Masterclass.

]]> By: Kathryn Cramer http://davidlangford.co.uk/2007/01/14/ansible-234/#comment-3 Kathryn Cramer Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:49:22 +0000 http://davidlangford.co.uk/2007/01/14/ansible-234/#comment-3 Though Thog's Master Class is really supposed to be for lines in published books, I can't resist sharing this line that came in a threatening letter from a journalist who used to be CNN's political director: <a href="http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2007/01/we_get_letters.html#more" rel="nofollow">"You may have balls, Kathryn but I assure you they are brainless at this moment."</a> Pure Thog's Masterclass. Now if dearest Christine will just forsake journalistic pursuits to write a novel . . . Though Thog’s Master Class is really supposed to be for lines in published books, I can’t resist sharing this line that came in a threatening letter from a journalist who used to be CNN’s political director: “You may have balls, Kathryn but I assure you they are brainless at this moment.”

Pure Thog’s Masterclass. Now if dearest Christine will just forsake journalistic pursuits to write a novel . . .

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