Since no one's posting comments any more (except over on The Dabbler), perhaps it's time for a competition. So - can you guess which well known writer drew the cartoon above? The answer is surprising, but I suspect there might be a few out there who know it. If not, all guesses are welcome...
The caption, by the way, is 'Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?'
I post comments!!
ReplyDeleteregarding the question - the use of the word 'faculty' points to an american, or at least somebody plying their trade in the states?
Male or female?
ReplyDeleteAnyway that's a good caption. Sorry about lack of comments, I am still reading, but tend to do it in big catch-up bursts.
by the way, just accidentally found out the answer...you need to remane the image file to stop others finding out the easy way!!
ReplyDeleteDoes it Worm? We use faculty here too, or at least we did at Brizzle.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds a bit technical, Worm - how do I do it?
ReplyDeleteAmerican is right, and female...
No Marilynne Robinson?
ReplyDeleteHo ho - nice try, Brit! But no.
ReplyDeletenige, if the image was uploaded from your computer, go back onto your computer and click once on the image file, this will let you edit the image name, change the name and then re-upload!
ReplyDeleteWell I've tried that Worm, but for some reason it wouldn't save onto my PC and I only succeeded in crashing Blogger and removing the whole post. I shall just have to rely on the innate honesty of all Nigeness followers...
ReplyDeleteBy the way I've no idea how you'd see the name of the image file unless you went in to edit the post - but don't tell me!
ReplyDeleteNige is clearly having technical problems, so as a filler until Worm sorts it, I shall strike an obstinate pose (as long as she doesn't strike me back) and refuse to be intimidated into believing the answer is American and female. It is Phil from Hull (via Coventry). If he’d stuck around and published this in 2013 it might just have captured aspects of the return from Afghanistan:
ReplyDelete'Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.'
Well, maybe not. Anyway, if it’s not Phil from Hull (via Coventry) it’s Joanna Trollope; if only because I love that name
Ah thanks for that John - how long ago it seems... I wouldn't be at all surprised if Phil had a sideline in cartooning (probably pornographic I fear), but this ain't him. And it is American - of the South, to be more precise...
ReplyDeleteJames Thurber's my guess.
ReplyDeleteThink Southern female novelists...
ReplyDeleteAll right, I'll tell you - the unlikely cartoonist is Flannery O'Connor, doyenne of 'Southern Gothic', author of Wise Blood etc. Find out more here...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons
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ReplyDeleteI would never have guessed her! But now I know, it does make sense...
ReplyDeleteI couldn't comment because I knew the answer thanks to worm - a right click and "save as" gives the file name for future reference for "dishonest" folk such as myself.....
ReplyDeleteMy editor over at Dabblerville tried to explain to me, as a father does with a recalcitrant child, that a dearth of comments (or even an absence of them)is no measure of the level of interest that readers have in one's incontinent outpourings. I nodded like one of those back-shelf dogs, but never really accepted the notion, but I think back to it whenever I have just completed an in-depth thesis on what Alfred Schnittke had for breakfast before his 5th stroke felled him, and use it like a protecting balm.
ReplyDeleteIf you want comments, Nige, just say something controversial on the subject of religion; they'll come then. And if you want hundreds, be mean to Mr Dawkins; although I'm not sure you're bandwith could take it.
ReplyDeleteI found the answer simply by hovering the cursor over the picture.
No honestly, I don't really mind about the comments - I can always console myself with the thought that the finest blog in the known world (Patrick Kurp's Anecdotal Evidence) often has none for days, even weeks on end. Before him, as before Mahlerman, we fall silent in admiration... You're right, Recusant - religion/Dawkins wld do it - also (as I know to my cost) anything to do with 'climate change'. It just gets so predictable...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, if I can get this computer to behave, I shall take steps to make the next picture contest harder to crack.
Is worm the first member of the Dabbler gang to employ pichacking? on no account let the Guardian know. What often makes me chuckle is the thought that the poster could watch the comment, as it is being composed, prior to publishing, what fun, giggles galore.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of voluminous comments or the paucity thereof, try one on the Scottish independence thorn Nige, don a tin hat first, as a precaution.
Ah yes, there's a thought, Malty!
ReplyDeleteI toyed with taking on the aggrieved gypsies today, but no one enjoys death threats...
Actually, I'm no longer in the "known world," Nige. Recently I moved to Texas. But thanks for the nice words.
ReplyDeleteWell Nige, you now know what to do if a bulging comment-page is what you yearn for - preface your posts with 'since no one's posting comments any more'. Seems to have hit the spot. Might road-test it myself before I get replaced by an App....
ReplyDeleteFor a bulging comment page, apart from the suggestions mentioned above, one could always rely on a pro-monarchy posting to attract the excitable if one was so inclined, which I know you would not be, Mr Nige.
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