tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post4999448584505844354..comments2023-05-24T23:33:57.516+10:00Comments on My Unwelcome Stranger: The fortunes of Miss Mahony 3Denis Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-55631555585807077992013-03-24T11:57:11.307+11:002013-03-24T11:57:11.307+11:00Out of curiosity, did anyone not know what a whipt...Out of curiosity, did anyone <i>not</i> know what a whiptail is?Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-87907172551079026762013-03-21T22:03:00.393+11:002013-03-21T22:03:00.393+11:00You got my intent in every respect very nicely. Th...You got my intent in every respect very nicely. Thank you, Anne. I appreciate the acute perceptiveness on your part! Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-61659845197169821412013-03-21T20:10:31.461+11:002013-03-21T20:10:31.461+11:00I did not mean to cast aspersions on your sentence...I did not mean to cast aspersions on your sentence. I meant to indicate that it was a great example of what i might call psychologicall onomatopoeia, if such a thing can exist! AnneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-71599309957829276782013-03-21T11:45:43.229+11:002013-03-21T11:45:43.229+11:00Surely you're not casting aspersions on that w...Surely you're not casting aspersions on that wonderful sentence, Anne.... :) <br /><br />PS There will be no Part 5 – if only for the fact that I then have to change the links at the bottom of every other page of the series, which is a very fiddly job!Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-8443082269437573122013-03-21T11:34:12.353+11:002013-03-21T11:34:12.353+11:00I genuinely lolled at that. In all this, it never ...I genuinely lolled at that. In all this, it never occurred to me that you do have your own Michael Maher. To that extent it's as close a similarity as you're going to get, because Mickey Marr had been only once as far as Gladstone at that stage of his life, and didn't like it.<br /><br />On reading the story, Mark Colvin quipped that he was trying to imagine <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marr_%28journalist%29" rel="nofollow">David Marr</a> as one of the Calliope Marr gang. I think he was having some trouble.Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-90919602844814259662013-03-21T11:23:47.357+11:002013-03-21T11:23:47.357+11:00There will be no need to lie, I promise you. Miss ...There will be no need to lie, I promise you. Miss Mahony can always surprise....Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-81815383464862156922013-03-21T11:22:30.864+11:002013-03-21T11:22:30.864+11:00It's true, except I couldn't fit into that...It's true, except I couldn't fit into <i>that</i> sentence [which will go down in history as one of my finest blog moments] the fact that it was actually the three-legged race with his sister named Royal as his partner, and the pants, cast-offs from his Dad, came down far enough to show that he could have won the race on his own.<br /><br />That was really worth a mention in the sentence, I guess, but it might have overloaded it a bit....Denis Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786035137418348609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-8131185744356179632013-03-20T22:45:52.346+11:002013-03-20T22:45:52.346+11:00I love your sentence. It epitomizes what Micky mu...I love your sentence. It epitomizes what Micky must have felt. I am looking forward to part 4 or perhaps part 5. Anne PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-68367703527552660542013-03-20T20:03:45.432+11:002013-03-20T20:03:45.432+11:00What! What?? Quick! (by the way, I have my own Mic...What! What?? Quick! (by the way, I have my own Mickey Marr here..almost as shy of intimacy..:))<br /><br />Julie M XXXXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-61152436376343751602013-03-20T17:44:05.076+11:002013-03-20T17:44:05.076+11:00I love Miss Mahony. Please don't let her disap...I love Miss Mahony. Please don't let her disappoint in Episode 4 - even if you have to lie!Bob Lakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5722735165669239585.post-85798277490314451242013-03-20T17:03:44.573+11:002013-03-20T17:03:44.573+11:00Oh Denis! What a glorious story-teller you are! Ev...Oh Denis! What a glorious story-teller you are! Even if this were not a true tale - and I know it is, of course - I would be as rapt.<br /><br />PS I love that you, a personal story-telling idol of mine, have written a sentence containing 106 words! Wonderful!!Roshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339472107640597921noreply@blogger.com