On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > 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. > listinfo/dragaera Thanks for the priceless interview. My favorite insight, one which would never have crossed my mind, is below: QM: If you had 20 millions dollars, would you spend it on a trip to the space station, or would you just waste it? SKZB: I would not waste it. I would make good, solid investments in drugs and hookers. As Vlad would never say, "Tag. You're it" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://dragaera.info/pipermail/dragaera/attachments/20051227/62889d2f/attachment-0001.html