On 12/26/05, Mark A. Mandel <thnidu at yahoo.com> wrote: > I asked if whoever had the info about the Tsalmoth myth would please put > it on the Lyorn Records. Sir Davdi has summarized it nicely, and I have > taken the liberty of putting his words there myself, properly credited of > course: http://dragaera.wikicities.com/wiki/Tsalmoth_%28animal%29 > I've been doing some more tsalmythological research, and I believe I have found some more useful posts in the mailing-list archives. The post marked with a "==>" has the most definitive statement we have on the topic (SKZB says: "However, I was not being entirely serious"). http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/9362 http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/9375 ==> http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/9493 http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/9552 http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/9709 http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/12745 I have been unable to dig up information about the con that the original poster recalls hearing the statement at, however, it occurs to me that the poster may have misremembered the year, city name and/or state name. Searching on "mississippi brust" found, among other things, the following amusing interview, so it wasn't a total loss. http://www.quantummuse.com/steven_brust_interview.html At some point, I shall update the Tsalmyth article with the intelligence I have discovered.