# WV\_Woman... c'mon down! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 27, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090 "2002-07-27T06:45:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/121 "2002-07-30T16:35:32Z")
Why do I keep picturing picturing Corpus Christi and mud buggy racing after reading this thread? ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/122 "2002-07-30T17:00:12Z")
Since WV\_Hominid hasn’t condescended to drop by in a while, can we just let this thread go into a Terry Pratchett appreciation thread? ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/123 "2002-07-30T17:34:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*Since WV\_Hominid hasn’t condescended to drop by in a while, can we just let this thread go into a Terry Pratchett appreciation thread? \*\* What about Neil Gaiman? He co-authored, and I’m a fan of his work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/124 "2002-07-30T18:14:29Z")
I would create some tortured pun about it only making sense that you’d be fond of a _Gaiman_, **Hamish** , but you might see it as an insult and it would totally hijack this thread (not that that wouldn’t be a _good_ thing!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/125 "2002-07-30T18:21:00Z")
I know someone who’s friends with Neil Gaiman. What? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/126 "2002-07-30T18:43:01Z")
JFTR, the meaning of that last parentheses is “Not that having the thread hijacked wouldn’t be a good thing” – on reread, my poor phrasing makes it sound like “Not that insulting **Hamish** wouldn’t be a good thing!” :eek: _Polycarp’s Law: Whatever you say on a message board, no matter how many times you reread and revise, will inevitably be misunderstood._ ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/127 "2002-07-30T19:00:43Z")
Thanks for the ego-strokes, **elf6c** and **Francesca**. Maybe I should skip my medication more often. 😉 The only Terry Pratchet I’ve ever read is _Good Omens_, but I’m a big Neil Gaiman enthusiast. I can’t believe I’ve never heard his name as “Kneel, gay man” until this minute, though-- I usually have a pretty good ear for, errrm, _homophony_. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/128 "2002-07-30T19:33:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*JFTR, the meaning of that last parentheses is “Not that having the thread hijacked wouldn’t be a good thing” – on reread, my poor phrasing makes it sound like “Not that insulting **Hamish** wouldn’t be a good thing!” :eek: \*\* Don’t worry. I’d have never taken it as such – not from you, anyway. 😉 I love the _Sandman_ – I have every volume. _Neverwhere_ and “We Can Get Them for You Wholesale” were both great. I still haven’t had the chance to read the “Dream Hunters.” FTR, I like his portrayal of gay characters – neither monsters nor paragons of virtue, just human beings. Or elven beings, in the case of Cluracan 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/129 "2002-07-30T20:08:31Z")
What I’d originally meant to post was: “Pratchett and Gaiman–two great tastes that taste great together”, but after that “Kneel, gay man” comment I, er, um. Yes, well. I adore Gaiman. _Sandman_ should be required reading (and why didn’t the Cluracan get his own spin-off series, dammitall?), and _Good Omens_ is on my list of Ten Books to Take to a Desert Island. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/130 "2002-07-30T20:24:07Z")
\ Gotta love the British ones. . . I meant authors. No homophony intended. And Gaiman’s Death characters are much less cool than Pratchett’s. Sandman’s sister is like Susan, only less so, and the Death of Good Omens is only funny when he’s acting like Pratchett’s Death. From Hogfather: Er, just, “Ho, ho, ho,” will do, master. You can leave off the “Cower, brief mortals” bit unless you want them to grow up to be accountants or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/131 "2002-07-30T21:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*\ > Gotta love the British ones. . . > I meant authors. No homophony intended. > > And Gaiman’s Death characters are much less cool than Pratchett’s. Sandman’s sister is like Susan, only less so, and the Death of Good Omens is only funny when he’s acting like Pratchett’s Death. > > From Hogfather: > Er, just, “Ho, ho, ho,” will do, master. You can leave off the “Cower, brief mortals” bit unless you want them to grow up to be accountants or some such. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/132 "2002-07-30T21:34:43Z")
Eeep! What I meant to post was: Pratchett’s novels are comedy novels; Gaiman’s _Sandman_ was not a work of more than incidental comedy but rather a more philosophical work. Hence the difference in characterization. Personally, I don’t regard “coolness” as an appropriate valuation (except maybe for videogames). And since this is just too gosh-derned polite for a Pit Thread… \ Listen, **WV\_Woman** , you can stick your fingers in your ears all you want to but your refusal to explain or defend your posts makes it apparent to me at least that you aren’t capable of any thought deeper than a soundbyte. ---
**Author:** ![Squish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Squish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squish)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/133 "2002-07-30T21:48:22Z")
And furthermore, **WV\_Woman** , you give hillbillies a bad name. As a proud former hillbilly who has been publicly chided for saying “fixin’s” and “taties”, I am ashamed of you. Were I a conservative, a Christian, or any other group with which you associate yourself, I would be ashamed of that also. In fact, I am glad that I have only set foot in West Virginia one night in 1969 so that whatever has tainted your character and brain cells has not affected me. Neener, neener, neener. ---
**Author:** ![Jurhael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jurhael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurhael)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/134 "2002-07-30T23:01:40Z")
“list of Ten Books to Take to a Desert Island.” Hmmm…sounds like a great topic… _goes to start one, hoping that it hasn’t already been done and Squish won’t get pissed at me…eheheheheeheh…_ As for Good Omens, I think I have that book…maybe I ought to READ it sometime! EHEHEH! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090/135 "2002-07-30T23:59:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by robertliguori \* > \*\*Since WV\_Hominid hasn’t condescended to drop by in a while, can we just let this thread go into a Terry Pratchett appreciation thread? \*\* No, we can’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wv_woman-cmon-down/121090.md?page=6)