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Continued from last week. This was the weekend of my wedding, so I hope I can be forgiven for stretching a Victorian segment over two Sundays.

I did some nice sound effect fonts on these pages.

6 comments:
W o o d (wood) says:

No aperture is to small for an octopus.

Leon Arnott (l) says: Does it make sense to say that this levitation-powered device has engines? I dare say this doesn't employ conventional mechanical motion. Possibly all she refers to is that the gerbil has woken up.
Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:

"How can a box have engines?"

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:

"fishmonger's"? I've been poking around rhyming slang sites looking for what this could mean, and I'm stumped.

Amy Fiori (amy82986) says:

@Tiff:  It's not rhyming slang.  A fishmonger is someone who sells fish.  I think Mell's just pointing out Pim's resemblance to some kind of exotic seafood.

Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:

@Amy - there's something afoot. The possessive apostrophe implies an unspoken word. I suppose it could simply be something like "fishmonger's product" or "fishmonger's aroma" or "fishmonger's delight". But it is common in rhyming slang to truncate to the first word, or even to a truncation of the first word, leaving out the rhyme altogether - like when Giles calls Wesley a "berk" in "Buffy", or when Basher Tarr says "We'll be in barney" in the "Ocean's Eleven" remake.

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