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To be honest, I was somewhat shocked at the fact that I was in for a good old-fashioned lynching but well, I figured, like Captain Jack Sparrow - I probably deserved it.
What's also interesting is the fact that the lot of you - well, okay ten anyway, threatened all sorts of nasty and sometimes very bloody endings for yours truly because of the ending I gave The Sight and yet, if I put any of that kind of thing in the story, you all cowered behind your bloody sofas or to paraphrase one fan -
So it may interest those of you out there, that there's gonna be another episode or several on the block:
Neat huh?
Right now, it's being cogitated, ruminated over and generally tweaked to make it legible and as soon as I get my grubby little maulers (he said blushing as he has hands the size of shovels), on it, it will be posted.
NB
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Biter bit!
After all the threats and pleadings you sent me when I tried to end Bike, you're now getting a view from the other side.
Surely, instead of calling it The Sight 2, wouldn't it be neater to call it, Second Sight?
Hugs,
Angharad
Angharad
Angharad...
Isn't that what it says?
I don't just look it, I really AM that bad . . .
I never
read the small print! Could always try 'Double Vision' which if it was through glasses, could be called 'Double Glazing', a catchy phrase that one, could become a household one (or two).
Angharad
Angharad
Didn't they tell you?
Didn't they tell you that you would go blind if you kept that up?
Well it did say
The End? at the end so I did wonder if you were just keeping us on the edge of our seats like usual.
Also I seemed to remember reading somewhere that an author gives life to a story and can also bring death. So if you had ended it there it would have been very sad but ...
I shouldn't shout too loudly as I might want to kill off a favourite character from time to time, not that I reckon many readers would get as attached to my people as that Cathy and Darren. But you never know.
BTW are we allowed the occasional unhappy ending or are they verboten on BCTS?
And I don't go around lynching people. I'm non-violent and I'll thump the first person to disagree with me!
Susie
Blinded by the Sight
Hurray! Nick is a gem, a peach, a Mercedes Benz hood ornament! I love you Nick! :)
I'm so excited I could spit! What? Okay. No, I won't spit. But I could! hahahahahahahaha (poo on acronyms, poo I say)
Thanks very much and I look forward to reading more about Darryl. I want to see what her new name will be. Darryl is just too butch, ya know? :p
- Terry
ps At least I never threatened to beat you up. I'd never do that. :)
We did not threaten violence, Nick, ...
we promised it. That's a big difference.
And it was comic violence, nothing the least bit dangerous or permenently disabling. Tar and feathering, riding you out of town on a rail, maybe the odd crucifixion and burning at the stake but it was all in good fun and now you have to ruin it with a new series when we have buckets of this jolly hot boiling tar, with pitch added to make it stick better and it’s all such a waste.
Ah fudge!
John in Wauwatosa who is not the least bit violent.
P.S. The above was all with tongue firmly in cheek.
John in Wauwatosa
To paraphrase
The Georgia Satellites: Don't give me no lines and keep your tongue to yourself!
I'm lucky, a well-made rope is a good thing to have around. ;-)
KJT
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
What's Wrong?
With Darryl Hannah? She doesn't look butch to me.
Damn, Nicky. I'm going to have to put the bolt cutters and the thumb screws back into storage. The rack was never going to be any use because you are longer than it is already. OK, delay no more (that's very rude in Cantonese). On with the show,
Joanne
Cantonese ?
Can you phonetically spell the Cantonese out ? Just curious.
Kim
Durn it!
Now what am I going to do with all those torches and pitch forks? I'm also going to have to cancel a bunch of invitations. Do you have any idea how hard it is to organize an angry mob of peasants? Sheesh!
Kimmie, Not In The Headline!
The expression phonetically in Cantonese is:
Dew...as in moisture on the grass in the morning
Lay...As it sounds
Lay....Same again
Maw....A country mother
I can't put in the correct tones.
Obviously you want to know what it means. Well, the corruption I used "Delay No More" would be instantly recognisable by any Hong Kong Chinese person so, if you ever say it, be very careful because it means:
"F---K Your Mother"
Yeesh!
It's nearly the same in Vietnamese! LOL. The tones make a difference though; if you get the wrong tones, you've said, "Bring back the raw horse." :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Interesting
I know my mom never taught me that one !
There was very little cursing in my house on THAT level (!!)
What would be even more interesting is to see the ideographs for it.
I am not quite sure if Maw means a country mother versus Ma which is the
general phonetic in english for mother, horse, a questioning tone, maltose candy,
numbness in Cantonese of course.
One more thought though. I think 'your' in Cantonese is 'Nay' so is it more like
'Nay Maw'.
You guys get the idea.
Kim
Cantonese
Kimmie, you are quite right. "you" or "your" in correct Cantonese is "nei". What I was using is the common Hong Kong pronunciation. Likewise, the correct phonetic for mother is more like "moe". However, I assure you if you say it in Hong Kong as I pronounced it, then heads will turn and you will get more than a few shocked looks. In some circles it has become a bit of a joke. There is even a local fashion outlet G.O.D. (stands for Goods Of Desire) that produces "Delay No More" tee-shirts.
Cantonese is one of the hardest languages to learn (so I kid myself anyway). Some people say there are nine tones, although most will settle for six. With my tin ears I have trouble distinguishing all of those, and then there are all the dialects. People from Guangzhou (Canton) speak differently to HongKongers, etc, so even after many years I can mostly make myself understood in a restaurant or taxi but can hold a conversation only with a five-year-old.
You have to be so careful with those tones."Ngoh jung yi sik hai"...."I like to eat crab" in one tone, can mean the performance of a very rude sexual act if the wrong tone is used for "hai"! Of course, I'm just a silly gweilo (foreigner), so they laugh at me when I make mistakes,
Joanne