An unasked for WAG…
KellyM may well not be familiar with Gorey’s work, or may not find any redeeming value in it if she does know what it is.
For someone who’s never seen or heard of the thing, the thread could seem a fair bit nasty at face value, no?
[sub]Or possibly there’s some incident with a wicked paper-cut we know nothing of?[/sub]
Nertz. Forgot to add:
H is for honeydewgrrl, who had a great fall.
I is for Ice Wolf who sunk into a swamp.
Skeezix, yes, I am not familiar with the work in question, and to die of ten papercuts seems like a comment on one’s relatively frailty. In light of the fact that I have just returned from a two-month self-imposed hiatus from the Boards (indeed, it’s entirely possible that the OP did not know that I had returned), that particular choice could easily be interpreted as an intimation that the reason I had left the Boards for so long amounted to nothing more than a “few papercuts”. Hence my annoyance.
I promise you that “papercuts” was used because it scanned, seemed like a funny method of “death” which kept the tone of the original work (“U is for Una who slipped down a drain”) and nothing personal was intended.
In fact, truth be told, I…um…< cough > skipped a letter (“Y” )and had to redo a bunch: the JDT one was actually specific as were one or two others (um…Quasimodem and um…Homebrew, I think), so everyone else’s fate got mixed up. I’m fairly certain that before the great reshuffling, you were “Trampled by Mammals”.
And honestly, I hadn’t realized you’d returned: I haven’t been around all that much myself recently as my work access to the SDMB has been cut off.
Anyway, I apologize for the misunderstanding and assure you that nothing peronal was meant.
Fenris
PS: If you haven’t read “The Gashlycrumb Tinies”, I recommend it a lot. It’s a very, very funny book/story with hilarious illustrations (my favorite is “Neville, who died of ennui”). I won’t link to them, as I suspect they’re a violation of copyright, but a few sites have put up the entire work: a quick GOOGLE search should find it.
BTW:
J’s for John Corrado, who died in a romp.
K is for Kat who was tierced in fess.
L is for LaurAnge, who drowned in a mess.
M is for matt_mcl, evangelized to death,
N is for Neidhart, who quite lost his breath.
I did a few Gashlycrumb Tinies-style posts in the Legendary “a” thread so, of course, I’m tickled pink to see my name in the OP.
O is for OxyMoron, run over by an Ambulance.
P is for Phouchg, impaled by a prince.
Q is for Qwisp, drowned in milk,
R is for RJKUgly, gagged with silk.
Nice. Everybody else got a death that’s at least half way interesting, but I just jumped off a bridge.
S is for Salem, buried in snow.
T is for Tiburon caught in lava flow.
“Blundgeoned by dimes?”
How peculiar.
Esprix
U is for UncleBill, trampled by an old bull,
V is for Vivalostwages, with a bashed-in skull.
W is for Welby who ate dye and turned purple…
X is for XJETGIRLX who couldn’t get her stirrup full.
(In other words, she fell off a horse)
X is for X~SLAYER (ALE), eaten by Miss Marple’s twin Murple.
Y is for Yosemite Babe, died from dying hair purple.
Only you people could find something to rhyme with purple.
Back on track here:
Y is for yojimbo, choked on fresh sage.
Z is for Ziactrice, who fell off a stage.
A is for andygirl, librarian in training.
B is for Balance, bled to death from a caning.
C is for Coldfire, who was eaten by moths.
D is for Drain Bead, run over by goths.
E is for Eutychus, who was killed by a shrew.
F is for fizzestothetop, who was bombed on the loo.
G is for Geobabe, shot for touching a Marine;)
H is for hamster, also caught on the latrine.
I is for imthecowgodmoo, allergic to staples.
J is for Jack Batty, impaled by a maypole.