Making Light:  Open thread 42 ::: June 09, 2005, 02:22 PM

Scorpio:

  Ah, what the blanks said to me finally surfaced:
  "The Widget, the Wadget, and Boff."

You, me, and half the readership.  What astonished me (when I brought
the immense power of the Internet to bear on bringing the words to
the top of my cranial eight-ball) was the overwhelming tendency to
omit the brackets from The [Widget], the [Wadget], and Boff.  Was it
republished without the flourishes, or do people simply omit them?

I second tnh's appreciation of Tim's entry.  John M Ford's is a
valiant attempt, but I've never known Bertie to care about the age
of his brandy, as long as it was not too diluted with soda.  I also
suspect that the first comma needs to be an exclamation point.

The true, the blushful answer embarrasses those of us who could have
counted underscores, who could have noticed a remarkable number, and
who didn't.  All die.