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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 25, 2008 6:57:23 GMT -6
Glad you got stuff scanned in. Always a bear. Beware the surety, though. Reading stuff automatically scanned in can be as shocking as Bob Newhart's monkeys writing at typewriters. "To be....or not to be......that is the gozornanplak...."
I thought you'd chatted about all this and it was no secret. It's only a User ID, requiring no cartouche.
Ward Churchill has another Style pamphlet out including updates on fabrication of sources (Roman numerals, yes, but in superscript italic). Sounds like you'll need it.
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Post by biggordie on Jun 25, 2008 8:40:44 GMT -6
dc:
Thanks for the tip, old bean. I was looking for something to differentiate my hornswoggle from previous. My own thoughts on the subject were to reference sources which didn't exist, or if they did, to pages which didn't exist, e.g. Son of the Morning Star, 3rd edition, pp 1012 - and to make up quotes, unsourced - natch, such as Half Yellow Face's famous "You and him are going somewhere you don't know and don't want to, which is why I'm going home by this other road here."
Gordie
PS You are dead on about the scanning - the editing took a long time, what with missing words, punctuation and etc. The scanner apparently did not know what to make of dashes - which I tend to use a lot - and could not handle information typed in columns. Who knew - still saved a lot of time, though.
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Post by BrokenSword on Jun 25, 2008 8:56:10 GMT -6
Gordie -
Send me the quotes you want to include, and I will write them down and send them back to you. That way you can use me as a footnoted source. I can have my bartender do the same, and that will give you multiple sources that verify your new discovery of critical information. Happy to do it for you.
M
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Post by biggordie on Jun 25, 2008 10:13:58 GMT -6
Michael:
I already gots you down as the author of the Foreword, and if you give me the name of your bartender [wait, I'll make one up!], I'll include him as the author of the Introduction.
Who wouldn't want to buy a book entitled "The Little Big Horn, or Little Bighorn,or Little Horn - the True Story of CUSTER'S LAST STAND: DAUNTLESS COURAGE, PERFIDY AND CONSPIRACY - featuring NEW AND STARTLING INFORMATION and HERETOFORE UNDISCOVERED SOURCES!!!! and with a FOREWORD and INTRODUCTION by MIKE and ERNIE [Bob and Paulie were not available]"
I admit the book may have to be oversized to encompass the title, and your cover art [natch], and purchasers might need help in getting it home; but there should be a sufficient number of unsuspecting souls out there to allow for a couple of extra beers a month. I think I have most of the key words in there - the rest I can use for Chapter Headings. I was gonna put in FLAGS and DUST and DEAD MEN, but I didn't want to detract from the seriosity of the work.
Gordie
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 25, 2008 11:22:49 GMT -6
But does it have channelled recent testimony from Crazy Horse? No? I'm writing the review now, let me know when it's finished and titled.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 26, 2008 0:05:58 GMT -6
Gosh, Gordie, DC is on to something BIG! I bet you could have that Australia Australian woman who is the reincarnation of Crazy Horse send you her photo. Then you could publish the first photo of Crazy Horse. That's a million beer idea, but DC probably won't want too much of the royalties.
Diane
P.S. Don't forget to have it translated into Finnish. Big market there.
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 26, 2008 8:24:58 GMT -6
Just the international T-shirt concession. My greed is modest.
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Post by biggordie on Jun 26, 2008 9:17:24 GMT -6
Diane:
I don't need the Australian woman, since I AM the reincarnation of Crazy Horse's horse, and of course know everything that happened, and my master's image is burned into the innermost recesses of my brain - the intracostal cortex, or vortex, or whatever. It can be easily downloaded via the firewire connection behind my left ear - at least that's what I think it is. The "visitors" never really explained it to me in detail. I was satisfied to be able to become the horse. They do downloads every full moon.
I'll do the Finnish when I'm finished - another three years should do.
dc WILL get the concession he desires, as a reward for his favorable review. Michael will get the beer mug rights for his art work and the writing of the Foreword. The bartender will get a lifetime supply of bar towels for doing the Introduction, provided it makes sense, and Diane - oh sweet Diane - will get one of the 50 LIMITED EDITIONS, signed by everyone involved and bound in Corinthian leather [burgundy - with stamped gold lettering].
Gordie
PS Can greed, by definition, be modest? Just asking......
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Post by bc on Jun 26, 2008 9:28:09 GMT -6
Makes me wonder, did Crazy Horse ride a stallion, gelding, or a nag?
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 26, 2008 11:29:08 GMT -6
I'm not sure, but I know my husband lives with a nag.
Gordie, the Corinthian leather edition??? I am not worthy!
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Post by BrokenSword on Jun 26, 2008 11:33:46 GMT -6
Gordie,
Don't you mean rich Corinthian leather?
M
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 26, 2008 11:40:22 GMT -6
And will you please sound like Ricardo Montalban when you record the audio version?
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Post by biggordie on Jun 26, 2008 13:23:40 GMT -6
M: I forgeot the modifier and appreciate the reminder. I will tell the binders/
D: I can't do Ricardo, but I do a mean John Wayne and a great Peter Lorre. I might do alternate chapters using their voices, or perhaps save Peter for the nastier parts. OOOOH, I just got goosebumps.............
bc: In life it was probably a mare. In this incarnation, definitely a stallion, although unridden in some time.
Gordie
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Post by clw on Jun 26, 2008 14:24:01 GMT -6
Whoa.
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Post by Dark Cloud on Jun 26, 2008 14:41:18 GMT -6
...wait.......yes. We're talking Cordoba.
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