Comments on: Loaded With Nourishing Roughage

By: Loaded With Nourishing Roughage — Sportsbook Betting

Loaded With Nourishing Roughage — Sportsbook Betting — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:29:37 +0000

[...] lining the walls of the baseball stadium? So why did it take me this long to notice source: Loaded With Nourishing Roughage, Crooked [...]

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:35:56 +0000

And thanks to the terrible Web 2.0, I now who Saki is and what Filboid Studge is. Evil evil, intellectually inferior Web 2.0. Oops, sorry, wrong thread.

By: Helen

Helen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:38:25 +0000

A lot of Saki is on-line –
Try here –
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/

also here –
http://www.users.bigpond.com/burnside/saki.htm

Luis, that short story site looks like a major time sucker!

By: Diary of a Mad Natural Historian » A Very Nice Morning

Diary of a Mad Natural Historian » A Very Nice Morning — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:48:02 +0000

[...] Bugs Bunny/Saki connection for any Edwardians out there (I have someone in mind). Mmm, Filboid [...]

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:29:48 +0000

Now then, can you find us any footage of the Saki TV series I remember from decades ago, featuring Fenella Fielding?

By: JP Stormcrow

JP Stormcrow — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:28:49 +0000

And to imagine there are people who think the Interweb cannot contribute to the advancement of human knowledge… Fur reelz! Philboid Studge is mentioned (both the story and from the cartoon) here at Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide (about 2/3'rds of the way down the page). There are eight pages of fictional cereals alone.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:14:28 +0000

A rather good cartoon/live adaptation of Sredni Vashtar, Bertha with her medals getting eaten by a wolf and a couple of others appeared on BBC4 about a month ago.
Yes, “When William Came” is very weird.

By: Luis Alegria

Luis Alegria — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:18:18 +0000

Mr. Weiner,

I would say he is neglected. My kids never got any Saki in school, required or recommended.

If not in school, then effectively nowhere, these days.

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:08:31 +0000

Saki is neglected? I thought everyone read Saki (“The Open Window” at least).

By: Luis Alegria

Luis Alegria — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:38:22 +0000

Mr. Richard,

A lot of Saki is on-line –
Try here –
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/

Search for “Saki”, there are dozens of them. including “Filboid Studge”.

By: richard

richard — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:16:52 +0000

I’ve been trying to convince people to read Saki for years. Smarter than Wodehouse, more acidic than the Mapp and Lucia stories, for my money, better than Wilde’s delicate fancies. The Unrest-Cure, Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger and Sredni Vashtar are masterworks.

the Penguin classics collection of all his shorts is really very affordable. It even contains the (now bizarre-seeming) “When William Came” (about Kaiser Bill and the strange reluctance of Munro’s countrymen to start the first world war). I’m half tempted to change my handle here to Clovis.

By: Luis Alegria

Luis Alegria — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:43:21 +0000

Mr. McLemee,

Saki was a staple of the old Catholic school readers, which may sound odd to people unaquainted with Catholic education.

He desperately needs a revival.

By: digamma

digamma — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:00:34 +0000

Derek Zumsteg's historical analysis of Baseball Bugs is absolutely brilliant.

By: Jasper Milvain

Jasper Milvain — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:45:45 +0000

In this context, "not of an age, but for all time" would be an allusion to Ben Jonson and an implicit comparison with Shakespeare.

By: astrongmaybe

astrongmaybe — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:16:51 +0000

I love Saki and all, and sorry to sound snarkish of a Friday afternoon, but what does ‘timeless’ and for “all time” actually mean in this context? Isn’t it more usually used on shopping channels to sell 5-CD collections of classic hits of the 70s?