On Dec 21, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > At 04:45 AM 12/21/2005, Davdi Silverrock wrote: >> On 12/20/05, Mark A. Mandel <thnidu at yahoo.com> wrote: >> > --- Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> However, I *think* (and SKZB may feel free to correct me) that at >> some >> convention or other event, Steve did actually say, in a *facetious* >> mode, that that (or something similar, like a turtle) is what >> tsalmoth >> are, and was misunderstood as being serious, and that is what the >> interview statement refers to. >> >> This post confirms that *someone* heard Steve directly (and did not >> get it from the interview, which was given in 2001, 7 years after >> this >> post (which is also more than a decade ago now, sheesh). I did not >> attend MOC (whatever that may be) [1], but perhaps someone else does >> recall hearing Steve say something like this? >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/ >> a4476d1ac4fe7b45?dmode=source > > Personally, I think that Steve was faced with a bunch of Draggies > (the Dragaeran equivalent of Trekkies), got sick and tired of > answering all the questions, and gave the most outrageous answer > for Tsalmoth that he could think of at the time. > > The Draggies being entirely without humor, of course, took every > word he said as absolute truth. > I dunno. sounds a little Teckla-ish to me...after all, what are we? Chopped kethna? Or pinkfish with butterchees?