Sorry...forgot the strip...here it is as an
attachment...
On 2/24/08 12:33 PM, "Steve Novak" <
Cinefrog@comcast.net> wrote:
> I love the ³....Hardboiled? Soft-boiled?
Parboiled?.... ³ and I have looked
> for and seen many other combinations...
>
> ....in that vein and to help the overall wit-level
on rara I strongly
> recommend the following website:
> http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/...
>
> ...where I found this highly relevant strip...given
some of the recent
> ³woody² controversies...
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Montois
>
> On 2/24/08 11:44 AM, "Kevin Burton Smith" <
kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
> <mailto:kvnsmith%40thrillingdetective.com>
>
> wrote:
>
>> > Dick wrote:
>> >
>>>> >> > Hardboiled? Soft-boiled?
Parboiled? I suppose it's in the mind of the
>>>> >> > reader. But I think some
(not all) of Francis' novels are filled
>>>> >> > with too
>>>> >> > much sadistic violence and
detailed torture, too many depressed
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