The WELL: Martha Soukup, not Flannery O'Connor.

inkwell.vue.16 : Martha Soukup, not Flannery O'Connor.
permalink #126 of 143: impoverished intervallic palette (castle) Sat 9 Jan 99 15:23

    

The way I heard it was that Gardner Dozois is alleged to have said, upon 
viewing Martha dangling from the end of the bungee cord, "My god!  I see 
what they are using for bait!  But what do you supposed they are fishing 
for?"

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permalink #127 of 143: David Gans (tnf) Sat 9 Jan 99 16:02

    
Hee-hee!

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permalink #128 of 143: excessively heterosexual (saiyuk) Sat 9 Jan 99 18:09

    
this ;might be the right moment to ask how to pronounce Gardner 
Dozois's's's name. 

And don't tell me "Gardner", you wiseasses.

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permalink #129 of 143: Michael R. Walsh (mrw) Sat 9 Jan 99 18:15

    
doe-zwah

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permalink #130 of 143: Martha Soukup (soukup) Sat 9 Jan 99 21:50

    
You know, that's not even the Gardner line I ever heard before.

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permalink #131 of 143: impoverished intervallic palette (castle) Sat 9 Jan 99 23:56

    

What did you hear?  I'd love to know!

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permalink #132 of 143: Michael R. Walsh (mrw) Sat 9 Jan 99 23:57

    
Well, she was in the air at the time.  I can't expect her to have heard
much.

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permalink #133 of 143: Martha Soukup (soukup) Sun 10 Jan 99 10:43

    
Well, I didn't hear anything directly, only in the line of people talking
afterward, of course.  Gardner's the kind of guy who has twelve lines for
any occasion; he was supposed to have yelled "Don't do it, Martha, I'll buy
the story!" before I plummeted.

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permalink #134 of 143: impoverished intervallic palette (castle) Mon 11 Jan 99 13:14

    

That's hilarious!

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permalink #135 of 143: Martha Soukup (soukup) Mon 11 Jan 99 14:02

    
'Course, I didn't have a story on his desk and when I next sent one he
bounced it.  Boingdy boingdy it's the story currently in _Starlight 2_.

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permalink #136 of 143: Erik Van Thienen (levant) Tue 12 Jan 99 08:17

    

Regardez, une Soukup volante!

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permalink #137 of 143: Angus MacDonald (angus) Tue 12 Jan 99 15:38

    
        She's on fire?

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permalink #138 of 143: Erik Van Thienen (levant) Thu 14 Jan 99 10:40

    

And crashing in Rosswell ...

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permalink #139 of 143: With catlike tread (sumac) Tue 19 Jan 99 12:37

    
I like "boingdy boingdy" as a song of triumph, and would preface all
my most cutting remarks that way if I had ever bungee-jumped.

Boingdy boingdy, pearls before swine.

Boingdy boingdy, you're no John F. Kennedy.

Boingdy boingdy, takes one to know one.

What do you mean "we," white man?  Boingdy boingdy.

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permalink #140 of 143: Martha Soukup (soukup) Tue 19 Jan 99 12:53

    
Boingdy boingdy you betcha.

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permalink #141 of 143: Ron Hogan (grifter) Tue 19 Jan 99 13:15

    

Best done, I believe, in the voice of Wakko Warner.

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permalink #142 of 143: dragging in Hyperborea (dbdoty) Tue 19 Jan 99 19:06

    
Quien?

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permalink #143 of 143: Ron Hogan (grifter) Tue 19 Jan 99 19:14

    

He's a character on Animaniacs. Sounds like George Harrison ca. "Help!"

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