Weekend post, multiple unrelated topics

[barbarienne]

First, I want to thank everyone who contributed to, or helped spread the word about, the Help Julia fund. You are the best sort of people who know the best sort of people, and I am proud to count you among my friends

Comments

[anghara]

She was like a kiwi: hairy on the outside, but brilliant on the inside.

[snerch]

I may have to use that somewhere.

How very Douglas Adams of you.

[barbarienne]

I actually used it a million years ago in a high school paper. The teacher was trying to encourage us to use more creative descriptions of people. I think I used it to describe the Knight in Canterbury Tales, because he was very rough and coarse in appearance, but noble and beautiful inside.

I also compared the Pardoner (who was rather the opposite of the Knight) to rhubarb, because that has beautiful leaves that will kill you if you eat them (though you can safely enjoy the stalks.)

[dorianegray]

And anyone describing the heroine as "edible" had better be a cannibal.

[mastadge]

Long pork with a strawberry peach chutney?

[barbarienne]

I think that deserves a swat on the nose!

[mastadge]

Or some fava beans and a nice chianti. . .

[chaosvizier]

I suspect "She was like a kumquat" will only show up in those SPECIAL romance novels.

[barbarienne]

Those are not generally marketed as Romance novels.