Questions Only

[Annie-Xmas]

Would that put me in Jeopardy!?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Would you rather be on The Dating Game?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Doesn’t that lead in to The Newlywed Game?

[Idle_Thoughts]

@Leo_Bloom

At this juncture, I invite you all into one of the masterpieces of English, and one that us questions-only language-play types will appreciate: the Anna Livia chapter, published at first as a separate book, of Finnegans Wake.

Rather than steal one of Joyce’s plays on a river name, havalook at this list and hyperlinked index to the lines of text and commentary sorted only on the names of rivers–I forget how many hundreds he weaves through it. (Let alone the additional hundreds of words associated with bodies of water, ports, etc.) It is a tour de force of concentration within this extraordinary work. None of the puns are done without a reason within the (semi)-normal narration and the purpose/point of the double/triple entendres.

Anna Livia–the Liffey–is the anima of the book. This chapter is the dialogue of two washerwoman on either side of a brook talking and gossiping about her and everything else under the sun as they wash the clothes of Anna and her husband, so to speak, Finnegan (a choice among their many and fluid (heh) quondam identities.)

Anyway, it’s a kick.

Fweets of Fin (_C,Rivers_)

This is not a part of this game, so just make posts that follow the game, okay?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Can’t we play Can You Wake Finnegan?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Is that the prequel to Finnegan Finally Gets Out of Bed?

[buddha_david]

@Idle_Thoughts

This is not a part of this game, so just make posts that follow the game, okay?

Is this the first Mod Note in this forum’s history? (And ain’t it cool that it follows the rules?)

[Eutychus]

Should we bestow honors and glory upon him? Or at least wry kudos?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Rye kudos? What’s wrong with whole wheat kudos?

[CheshireKat]

Shouldn’t we offer gluten-free kudos as well?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Could I have a nutty fudge one, please?

Kudos (granola bar)

[Leo_Bloom]

@Idle_Thoughts

This is not a part of this game, so just make posts that follow the game, okay?

Ok, and noted. Just a cite to “a zillion puns on river names for me/you to steal from” next time it comes round…

[Leo_Bloom]

Do I get kudos for playing Beethoven rondos?

[carnut]

As we’ve all posted here, why don’t we all get kudos?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

How many kudos could dodos coo if cuckoos did do kudos?

[Siam_Sam]

So Leo still has no question?

[Siam_Sam]

@Siam_Sam

So Leo still has no question?

Or maybe I need to keep looking further at later posts? :o

[Annie-Xmas]

Did Leo ever even read James Joyce’s Ulysses? Or see Mel Brooks’s The Producers?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Is it Springtime for Parnell?

[Siam_Sam]

Did you know I did Nazi that coming?