I'm going to have to move the infamous pulp fiction author
(+50) Leigh
Bracketts book up to the top of my TBR list along with the
Willeford book
(+25) I just ordered. When and where is the award
ceremony?
Anita
-----Original Message-----
From: M-T <matrxtech@sprintmail.com>
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date: Saturday, April 24, 1999 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Desperate Hours
>Victoria:
>
><<(And, okay, I can understand the
Nixon/Ellroy/hardboiled
>connection--but don't I get brownie points for
mentioning a Bogart film
>originally? :) )>>
>
>Instead of brownie points, we give hardboiled eggs
here. You are awarded
>three and a half of those for the Bogie mention. At
the end of the year,
>the top-scoring rara-avian receives The Hardboiled
Egg, our most
>prestigious award (a Lifetime Achievement Egg is in
the works). One
>peculiarity is that eggs can be lost as well as
earned.
>
>Examples:
>
>Mention of the pulps: + 50 eggs
>Mention of a dead author that nobody else knows about:
+100 eggs
>Mention of Charles Willeford = + 25 eggs
>Mention of Dorothy Sayers = -37.5 eggs
>Mention of P*tr*c** C*rnw*ll = - 150 eggs
>Praise for P*tr*c** C*rnw*ll = - 250 eggs
>Question about when "Z is for Zud" will appear: - 375
eggs
>Expression of fondness for Spenser's Susan: - 500
eggs
>
>etc.
>
>Regards,
>
>mt
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