Norfolk is a long way away from anywhere, and if I were you, I shouldn't start from here. By the time you get to the outskirts of Cromer, any distinctions between science, beachcombing, social commentary, writing and animal husbandry have started to blur. When the process is complete, you know you've arrived at the End Of The Pier Show. So, welcome. Find somewhere to park your unicycle. Pull up a girrafe chair. Make yourself comfortable.
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Maison Des Girrafes Caption Competition #37
Captions invited for this shot of imminent CATastrophe. Orders of the Unicycling Girrafe liberally largessed for captions that drag me out of my customary torpor. Here's one to start you off (HT Mrs Crox) "I'm going down with the ship, Captain".
Not feeling that creative, but giving it a go anyway:
"Is it bad that the computer is showing me this blue screen stating a fatal error has occurred?" "I told you iPet would have been better for cracking the security code!"
"Hm I think I see the axolotl vomit in the bottom, or it will be the comforting Fray Bentos meat pie that throwing at the aquarium by Ecce Cromo behind two weeks ago, at the end ...... never knew that was it that. Splort...."
By night, the writing never stops. As well as being a featured columnist for BBC Focus magazine, he is working on several book projects. These include a popular-science book about human evolution (this week's working title - The Myth Of Progression: On The Tangled Bank of Darwin's Imagination); a projected new edition of his 1996 graduate-level text Before The Backbone; a palaeo book for kids and maybe a graphic novel (both with Luis V. Rey); a massive SF bonkbuster; and a kids' book calledDefiant The Guinea-Pig: Firefighter! (with his younger daughter, Crox Minima). An active Tolkienist, he is the Editor of Mallorn, the Journal of the Tolkien Society.
He lives in Cromer, Norfolk, England, with his family and numerous pets, and enjoys playing blues organ, beachcombing, supporting Norwich City FC, and falling asleep.
He is represented by Jill Grinberg Literary Management LLC, and that's where all inquiries about sole-author book projects should be directed in the first instance.
Disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed on this blog and in the comments do not necessarily reflect those of the Nature Publishing Group. (In the Town Hall if wet: restrictions may apply).
Herewith is the Roll of Honour in which Participants in this Blog are Judged to have made a Contribution that Transcends the Mere Ordinariness of the Merely Ordinary, and, Stepping Forward, receive the Order of the Unicycling Girrafe, and, this having been attained, shall join, in Perpetuity, Eternally and Forever, Whichever Lasts Longest, the Grand Order of the Unicycling Girrafe, and Shall Henceforth be Entitled to Style Themselves as GOOFTUG, Notwithstanding Inasmuch as Which, Ahem, Clears Throat:
Ms C. T. of South Wales, and Dr M. C. of Kingston upon Thames.
Not feeling that creative, but giving it a go anyway:
ReplyDelete"Is it bad that the computer is showing me this blue screen stating a fatal error has occurred?"
"I told you iPet would have been better for cracking the security code!"
Lin, this is very apt, considering that one of these kittehs has just now sat on Mrs Crox's computer, causing a Screen of Death.
ReplyDelete"Perhaps if we reverse the polarity, the fish will be ejected from the water and we can escape the wormhole while we dine."
ReplyDelete"Excellent work, Ensign Puss. Make it so."
"Whoa! Did I just see, like, a really tiny giraffe down there?"
ReplyDelete"Don't be silly. Such things do not exist except in Cromer."
"Silly? We're in Cromer! Gah!"
"Hm I think I see the axolotl vomit in the bottom, or it will be the comforting Fray Bentos meat pie that throwing at the aquarium by Ecce Cromo behind two weeks ago, at the end ...... never knew that was it that. Splort...."
ReplyDelete'comforting Fray Bentos meat pie'
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"I'm in the mood for axolotl 'n' chips tonight. Do you suppose they do take-away?"
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