Scott Schultz wrote: > Wow, that is really slick. My hat's off to you. I thought I > was doing good when I caught Tazendra channeling Sherlock > Holmes, but I never would have caught this Easter Egg at all. Thanks, although reading ahead, it appears I'm not the first to notice this. At least it doesn't appear I missed something that was obvious. > The funny thing is that I was just thinking, on my way into > work, about starting up a "compiled easter egg" thread. Have you seen the Jokes & Allusions page on Mark's site, www.cracksandshards.com? He has quite a collection going there. > Bantam's logo is a cock/rooster, so that is possible if the > Phent = pheasant connection works. I think the clue in this > one is the street address. None of the others list an > address at all. "14 Fishmonger Street" sounds like a > play on words. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find an online > directory that lists physical addresses for the big > publishers. Even their own websites seem to avoid mentioning > much in the way of actual contact information. Actually, Sticks also provides an address for Tomas, Oscar and Ramon, but I didn't include it since it appeared to actually be plot-related, and not just a hint. I had the same thought you had, and the same luck: For one thing, a lot of these publishers have been bought up since 1990, and the current mailing addresses are almost certainly not the same anymore (Ballantine, Dell, Bantam, I think all of those got bought up by Random House alone). > Personally, I've always pronounced "bough" to rhyme with > "Ow!", like "Ow, that hurts!". D'oh! Err, I mean, Dao! Bryan