What the hell was that?

[seebs]

Okay, new thread time.

Your goal is to describe a thing you are sure you read or watched once, but you don't know what it is. Everyone else's goal is to try to figure it out.

Example the first: I am convinced that I read a very badly done ripoff of the Wizard of Oz books named something like "the marvelous monarch of mo". The only story I remember at all was one where a prince who likes candy too much is sentenced to a week on an island made of candy, where there is nothing else to eat, and then he doesn't like candy anymore. This would have been twenty-five to thirty years ago. Google has turned up nothing.

Example the second: A book I'm sure I read, about which I have only vague notions. There was a creature (a fairly odd one, I think?) with an unusual name, which spoke apparent nonsense which was actually very good advice; for instance, when someone was in danger of falling, it yelled "KEEP A STIFF UPPER LIP" which turned out to be advice to blow a very large bubble and float to safety. There were, I think, some kids, and an older gentleman who was some sort of professor or wizard. I can't remember the names of any of these people. I think it may have been a "visiting magical world" story, or something.

Any ideas?

[The Lone Ranger]

The Magical Monarch of Mo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Monarch_of_Mo) -- not exactly a rip-off of The Wizard of Oz, since it was by the same author.

Cheers,

Michael

[Blake]

I have no idea what the first one is. The second one I'm sure isn't The Phantom Tollbooth, but it reminds me of it.

Example the third: Did anyone watch those 1970s Sunday evening Disney TV movies? They were usually two or three one-hour parts. There was one with two separated twins whose parents accidentally sent them to the same summer camp, and then of course after initial conflict they decided to swap places and try to get their folks back together. I think it was one of those first shows where they got the same actress to play both parts with their oh-so-advanced film-overlapping techniques. Anyone remember the name of that?

[viscousmemories]

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

[Nullifidian]

I have no idea what the first one is. The second one I'm sure isn't The Phantom Tollbooth, but it reminds me of it.

Example the third: Did anyone watch those 1970s Sunday evening Disney TV movies? They were usually two or three one-hour parts. There was one with two separated twins whose parents accidentally sent them to the same summer camp, and then of course after initial conflict they decided to swap places and try to get their folks back together. I think it was one of those first shows where they got the same actress to play both parts with their oh-so-advanced film-overlapping techniques. Anyone remember the name of that?

It's The Parent Trap (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055277/) with Hayley Mills in the dual role.

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

Please tell me I'm not alone in thinking that The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles sounds like a censored title for a pr0n flick.

[Kevlar]

Oh man, I forgot all about "The Wonderful World of Disney". That was a Sunday night must see back in the 70s.

[Dingfod]

It's The Parent Trap (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055277/) with Hayley Mills in the dual role.There was a remake of that Disney flick starring the pubescent Lindsay Lohan in the Mills role.

[viscousmemories]

Wow. Who knew The Parent Trap that made Lindsay Lohan famous was a remake? Well okay, probably everyone but me. But still!

:laugh: @ Null. Oddly, I didn't even think of that.

[beyelzu]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think


i remember nothing else about the book.

[Blake]

You mean the <You are hearing me think.> of the buggers in the sequels to Ender's Game?

[Chris Porter]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think


i remember nothing else about the book.

That sounds like one of the methane breathers of C.J. Cherryh Chanur saga. T'ca perhaps.

[beyelzu]

nope not enders game and not chanur, i know both of those series pretty well.

there was some sort of ftl travel or maybe portal jumping, im not sure.

at one point the main character is rescued by one of the slash speaking creatures i believe

[Deadlokd]

You mean the <You are hearing me think.> of the buggers in the sequels to Ender's Game?

How did you do that? :rubeyes:That's a <I wonder if I can do it too.> neat trick.

ETA Apparently not :rofl:

[wildernesse]

Oh, bel are you thinking of one of the series of L'Engle books--I don't know if it is a Wrinkle in Time or one of the later ones.

The things that could think into your head, healed the girl or kept her safe? I imagined them as large, brown, soft creatures. (Of course, I also imagine them somehow under my grandmother's magnolia tree in her front yard, so I could be unhelpful here.) There is a seraphim with lots of eyes?

[seebs]

The Magical Monarch of Mo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Monarch_of_Mo) -- not exactly a rip-off of The Wizard of Oz, since it was by the same author.

Cheers,

Michael

How the hell did I miss that on three separate attempts to Google for it?

[seebs]

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

You are fucking amazing.

Okay, you guys think you're awesome. I can stump you. This one's not mine, but I found it on Usenet once:

>>About 2 years ago I saw the middle of a movie and unfortunately had to
>>go do something important. Little did I know at the time that the
>>name of this movie would haunt me. It is about a governess taking
>>care of a girl in the woods? I thought the governess was played by
>>Joel Fleishman's fiancee from early episodes of Northern Exposure but
>>all searches have been futile.
>> For the sake of an identifiable search, I am going to reference a
>>bizzare scene that involves masturbation. Not because it is a dirty
>>movie, but for classifications' sake.
>> The governess is in a boat with her charge. They pass under a
>>railroad trestle and she climbs on one of the beams to get excited
>>from the vibrations from the train and mentions to the girl words to
>>the effect of it didn't take long for her to get an orgasm.

This description led to a response, which was posted in alt.humor.best-of-usenet:

>What on earth could have been more important than watching the rest of this??

If you can get this one, I will track the poster down and tell him.

[seebs]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think

i remember nothing else about the book.

Boy, that's gonna be a challenge. Hmm. ... Did you know that your post is already in the top five Google hits for "telepathic giant centipedes"?

[beyelzu]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think

i remember nothing else about the book.

Boy, that's gonna be a challenge. Hmm. ... Did you know that your post is already in the top five Google hits for "telepathic giant centipedes"?

thats awesome

[beyelzu]

Oh, bel are you thinking of one of the series of L'Engle books--I don't know if it is a Wrinkle in Time or one of the later ones.

The things that could think into your head, healed the girl or kept her safe? I imagined them as large, brown, soft creatures. (Of course, I also imagine them somehow under my grandmother's magnolia tree in her front yard, so I could be unhelpful here.) There is a seraphim with lots of eyes?

nope i remember aunt beast quite well

but thanks everyone for the effort

[seebs]

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

On consideration:

Could you explain how you accmplished this?

[Blake]

You mean the <You are hearing me think.> of the buggers in the sequels to Ender's Game?

How did you do that? :rubeyes:That's a <I wonder if I can do it too.> neat trick.

ETA Apparently not :rofl:Weird! I didn't think I'd done it; I couldn't see it in my post, which is why I added my edit comment. You can't see it in your own post either? How strange.

I may have to complain to The Management.

[Blake]

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

On consideration:

Could you explain how you accmplished this?Probably by searching Google for "professor keep stiff upper lip."

You (that is, your usenet friend by proxy) and bey are tough cookies. I can't believe how easy I was.

[Leesifer]

You mean the <You are hearing me think.> of the buggers in the sequels to Ender's Game?

How did you do that? :rubeyes:That's a <I wonder if I can do it too.> neat trick.

ETA Apparently not :rofl:Weird! I didn't think I'd done it; I couldn't see it in my post, which is why I added my edit comment. You can't see it in your own post either? How strange.

I may have to complain to The Management.

I'd complain if I were you, Blake. I can't see it in your original post. I can see They's in his reply but I can't see either in your quote from They. <wait, did I say that out loud?.>

[ceptimus]

I may have to complain to The Management.
It's because you're a member of the html group and the &lt; and > symbols are used to delimit html tags. If you put a pair of them around something, then they and everything inside are invisible. If you happen to put something inside that is a valid tag then the html for that will be rendered. For example if I put &lt;hr> in this post, then I'll get a 'horizontal rule' like this: <hr>

If you want to display the &lt; and > symbols then you can either put that part of your post inside Code tags:

These symbols are displayed normally: < > (you can use the # icon of the post editor to do this) or you can do as I've done in this post and use &amp;lt; to display the &lt; symbol - you can then use the > symbol normally as it will render okay unless there is a matching &lt; If you want to play safe you can use &amp;gt; to display &gt; The letters are mnemonics for 'less than' and 'greater than'. You must include the ampersand and the semi-colon.

Note: None of the above applies, or is necessary if you're not a member of the html group. If you're not a member then you can just use &lt; and &gt; without worry.

[California Tanker]

You mean the <You are hearing me think.> of the buggers in the sequels to Ender's Game?

My first thought was Speaker of the Dead. I found it to be a surprisingly good book, though I never got to the third one for some reason.

I seem to recall Card saying that they were making a movie of Ender's Game.

NTM

[California Tanker]

How about this? Who says guns can't be a phallic symbol?

http://www.dansdata.com/images/danletters105/vapen.jpg

NTM

[beyelzu]

xenocide sucked something fierce, good call on missing it

cuz like it was just hundreds of pages of grownup emo ender saying, i cant make a decision the pressure, you dont know what its like to kill a whole fucking species, i do

[viscousmemories]

The latter is The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (http://www.amazon.com/Last-Really-Great-Whangdoodles-Anniversary/dp/0064403149/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-1634874-7734308?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189094556&sr=8-2) by Julie Andrews Edwards

I am the Googlemaster! :muahaha:

On consideration:

Could you explain how you accmplished this?Probably by searching Google for "professor keep stiff upper lip."

You (that is, your usenet friend by proxy) and bey are tough cookies. I can't believe how easy I was.

Actually it was: "stiff upper lip" bubble

...but yours would've worked too.

[seebs]

I can't find it even with that! On Google? I am stumped, because now even knowing the book, I can't figure out search terms from my original description that turn anything up.

[Ensign Steve]

xenocide sucked something fierce, good call on missing it

cuz like it was just hundreds of pages of grownup emo ender saying, i cant make a decision the pressure, you dont know what its like to kill a whole fucking species, i do

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/nighttime_stories.jpg

[Deadlokd]

I may have to complain to The Management.
It's because you're a member of the html group and the &lt; and > symbols are used to delimit html tags. If you put a pair of them around something, then they and everything inside are invisible. If you happen to put something inside that is a valid tag then the html for that will be rendered. For example if I put &lt;hr> in this post, then I'll get a 'horizontal rule' like this: <hr>

If you want to display the &lt; and > symbols then you can either put that part of your post inside Code tags:

These symbols are displayed normally: < > (you can use the # icon of the post editor to do this) or you can do as I've done in this post and use &amp;lt; to display the &lt; symbol - you can then use the > symbol normally as it will render okay unless there is a matching &lt; If you want to play safe you can use &amp;gt; to display &gt; The letters are mnemonics for 'less than' and 'greater than'. You must include the ampersand and the semi-colon.

Note: None of the above applies, or is necessary if you're not a member of the html group. If you're not a member then you can just use &lt; and &gt; without worry.

Cool. How do I get into that group? Actually never mind. What I don't know about HTML would fill the Library of Congress.

[Crumb]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think

i remember nothing else about the book.

Boy, that's gonna be a challenge. Hmm. ... Did you know that your post is already in the top five Google hits for "telepathic giant centipedes"?
It wasn't Rocheworld was it? They aren't centipedes and they don't use slashes but they are alien creatures that communicate differently and use odd punctuation. They are aquatic creatures that change colors, if I remember correctly.

Second thought, that's probably not it. :dunno:

[SharonDee]

Example the third: Did anyone watch those 1970s Sunday evening Disney TV movies? They were usually two or three one-hour parts. There was one with two separated twins whose parents accidentally sent them to the same summer camp, and then of course after initial conflict they decided to swap places and try to get their folks back together. I think it was one of those first shows where they got the same actress to play both parts with their oh-so-advanced film-overlapping techniques. Anyone remember the name of that?

It's The Parent Trap (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055277/) with Hayley Mills in the dual role.If anyone's interested, it's playing now on The Hallmark Channel.

[But]

How about this? Who says guns can't be a phallic symbol?

http://www.dansdata.com/images/danletters105/vapen.jpg

NTM

This has to be a prototype black hole gun for use in standard artillery systems. :foilhat:

That's a silencer used for firing tests on a M109 in Germany. Allegedly there are two of them, this one is at the WTD Meppen

[Beleth]

ok, random scifi space opera book from the seventies some time

used a pretty cool method of double slashes instead of quotes for the giant centipedes (i think) for when they communicate telepathically i think

i remember nothing else about the book.
My guess would be Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, or one of David Brin's "Uplift War" books, although those were both written after the seventies.


My can't-remember-what-it-was is also a book. The title began with, I believe, The Book of the, and the next word, I believe, began with S. I thought for a long time that it was Seraph but searches for The Book of the Seraph have been fruitless.

Anyway, what was weird about this book was that it was written in an invented language and alphabet, and the pages were da Vinci-esque -- beige with brown hand-inked scribbles on them.

Time frame would have been late 80's or early-mid 90's.

[trientalis]

Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia of an imaginary world.

Check Moe's Books if you want a copy but be warned, it will be pricey. And that's just the Franco Maria Ricci reprint. The original Abbeville Press copy will be even more expensive.

Abebooks is your friend.

[Qingdai]

1970s French movie about a couple of pre-teen children. The girl goes on vacation (somewhere in Italy?) and the boy follows there, after running away. I think his father was somewhat abusive.
A sappy love story that I loved as a child. The boy is poor, the girl is not as poor.
I saw it twice and thought the name was something like Small Change (which is an entirely different movie about French children).

Any help?

[viscousmemories]

A Little Romance (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079477/)?

[Dingfod]

[QUOTE=California Tanker;415505]How about this? Who says guns can't be a phallic symbol?

[cut image of mobile artillery piece with a huge silencer on it]
That looks like one hell of a prosthetic appendage.

[Qingdai]

A Little Romance (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079477/)?

The poster looks different, but I think that is it. How did you find it? I am not good at looking up films.

[viscousmemories]

The Googlemaster works in mysterious ways.
:peace1:

[Beleth]

Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia of an imaginary world.
That's it! Thank you!

Check Moe's Books if you want a copy but be warned, it will be pricey. And that's just the Franco Maria Ricci reprint. The original Abbeville Press copy will be even more expensive.

Abebooks is your friend.
Yeah, the reason I didn't buy a copy when I had it in my hands was it was too pricey. But that was many years and many promotions ago. Still not sure I want a copy to keep, though... gonna see if the local library has a copy first.

[viscousmemories]

My memory, and Google skillz, have failed me.

What was the name of that service (now defunct) from which you could order anything your heart desires and have it delivered to your home? They even went so far as to install (I think green) drop-boxes all over the country. It was one of the earliest major ecommerce players.

[curses]

Webvan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan)?

[Ymir's blood]

My memory, and Google skillz, have failed me.

What was the name of that service (now defunct) from which you could order anything your heart desires and have it delivered to your home? They even went so far as to install (I think green) drop-boxes all over the country. It was one of the earliest major ecommerce players.

Was it Kozmo.com?

[viscousmemories]

Sorry, I should've said "It's not WebVan". :D

It's something stupid, like KoKo or Kizmo or Gitmo or something.

ETA: Crossposted! :lol: Kozmo! That's it!! :yes: Thank you Ymir's Blood. :bow:

[Ymir's blood]

Webvan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan)?

I considered them too what with the green bin on the wiki page.

[Gi-Ryuu]

Ohoh I've got one. I know for a fact when I was little I watched this cartoon that I later found out was an anime about these two polar bear cubs. I don't remember much, but I remember something about either their mom or dad being killed and they had to go on a journey for something, and there was a baby seal somewhere in there, too.

I wanna find that one out soo bad ><

[viscousmemories]

Was it Der Kleine Eisbär (The Little Polar Bear) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293849/)?

ETA: Ah, no. It was probably Hokkyoku no Muushika Miishika (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1620)

[Gi-Ryuu]

Was it Der Kleine Eisbär (The Little Polar Bear) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293849/)?

No, there was much different animation. Their heads were more square, I think. And that one looks like it only has one polar bear, but I remember two.

Edit: YEA the second one was it! sweet

[Crumb]

I remember reading this book and the only thing I can recall about it is that the protagonist was an artist who constructed a metal sculpture that simulated the sounds of a thunder storm by dropping marbles onto metal sheets.

I don't even remember if it was a very good book. Does anyone know what that was from?

[Novowels]

When I was in Jr High, I borrowed a book from the local library that always sat with me for some reason, although I can't remember the title, why it intrigued me, or anything about the actual plot.

The only thing I remember was that it involved humans on an alien planet, the planet had a race of bear-like intelligent beings that had an interesting futurized-industrial society. I believe they lived in medieval-ish castles as well.

There was a lot of stuff about how the humans didn't fit into the 'bear' structures, furniture, machines, etc. I vaguely recall a fight scene between the human protaganist and a 'bear' wherein he couldn't even hold his own.

[seebs]

I remember reading this book and the only thing I can recall about it is that the protagonist was an artist who constructed a metal sculpture that simulated the sounds of a thunder storm by dropping marbles onto metal sheets.

I don't even remember if it was a very good book. Does anyone know what that was from?

It sounds eerily familiar, but I think if I read the book, I ignored the art part. Hmm. A vague sense of familiarity makes me think of The Second Trip, by Robert Silverberg, but I'm not even sure it had an artist. ... Hmm, but a book blurb says it did.

[Chris Porter]

When I was in Jr High, I borrowed a book from the local library that always sat with me for some reason, although I can't remember the title, why it intrigued me, or anything about the actual plot.

The only thing I remember was that it involved humans on an alien planet, the planet had a race of bear-like intelligent beings that had an interesting futurized-industrial society. I believe they lived in medieval-ish castles as well.

There was a lot of stuff about how the humans didn't fit into the 'bear' structures, furniture, machines, etc. I vaguely recall a fight scene between the human protaganist and a 'bear' wherein he couldn't even hold his own.

Are you sure it was bears, and not cats? Say, kzin?
There's only a few bear-like alien stories I recall, one from Alexander Key, "The Golden Enemy"*, a couple from H.Beam Piper, "Little Fuzzies", and something from Poul Anderson, "Hokas". The last may possibly be what you are looking for?

(not an alien, just the last bear on earth, which was enormous and sapient)

[seebs]

Well, the fuzzies weren't "futurized-industrial", certainly.

[Chris Porter]

Right. But somewhat bear-like. Now, the Hoka were teddy bears that read a earth-fiction medieval novel and I believe they tried to make it real, and it involved castles and mounts and tournaments, and so on. And they were small, so a human wouldn't fit their technology. And they were very strong, too. So I'm thinking that Anderson's Hokas (which i think were a collected set of short stories, can't recall.) may be what novowels is remembering.

[Novowels]

Hmmm.. Doesn't seem to be any of those. They weren't actual bears iirc, that was just one of the early descriptions of them I think. They were large, hairy, and had claws though.

I've recalled something else though; there was a runt 'bear' that got along more with the humans; being closer to their size.

I'm not sure on the medieval thing now, I may have that bit mixed up with another novel.

I believe much of the story involved mining in some capacity.

[Crumb]

I remember reading this book and the only thing I can recall about it is that the protagonist was an artist who constructed a metal sculpture that simulated the sounds of a thunder storm by dropping marbles onto metal sheets.

I don't even remember if it was a very good book. Does anyone know what that was from?

It sounds eerily familiar, but I think if I read the book, I ignored the art part. Hmm. A vague sense of familiarity makes me think of The Second Trip, by Robert Silverberg, but I'm not even sure it had an artist. ... Hmm, but a book blurb says it did.
Hmm, I don't think I have read that one. But I have read a lot of Silverberg so I think I will check it out. :thankee:

[viscousmemories]

Was the runt bear's name Chocka, Novowels? :D

[Ensign Steve]

Okay there's this fantasy novel, and I think it might be for kids or teens, and it's supposed to be super funny. There's this kid and he meets up with this "demon" and he's called a demon because he's able to move between dimensions (demontions?). I think the demon is big and blue and furry, but I could be imagining that. So they go to this bazaar, that might be like a hub between dimensions. And they go to this one dimension that's supposed to be a MacDonald's but of course they don't recognize it because they're not from our dimension, so it's all frightening and confusing to them.

It's by some well-known fantasy author, I guess, like Piers Anthony, only not him. DH made me read it years before he was DH, because he thought I would think it was funny or cute, but now he has no idea what I'm talking about when I try to get him to remember what it was.

[Ymir's blood]

That sounds like the Myth Adventures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_Adventures) series by Robert Lynn Asprin.

[Ensign Steve]

I saw a few minutes of a movie today when I was at the pizza place. It was on USA. It had a young Jessica Alba, or some very smiliar looking girl, and she was playing a chreographer for music videos. The section I saw she was watching some kids play basketball and some other kids play double dutch and she was getting ideas for moves for her choreography. Then she had some argument with her roommate about a Dolce dress. Then she tries to get her kids in some dancing audition. It looked real cute. Any ideas?

[viscousmemories]

Honey (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0322589/)?

[Ensign Steve]

Yeah, babe?

[viscousmemories]

:giggle:

I didn't even have to Google that one. Me #1 one Alba fan!!!1

[Ensign Steve]

I knew you'd come through. I even went to imdb, but I couldn't find the right movie.

You should have seen me at the pizza place going, "Who the fuck is that? Jennifer Lopez? Natalie Portman? Mariah Carey?" I'm terrible with actors and I was trying to figure out the most diplomatic way to describe "either a real light-skinned black girl, or a real dark-skinned white girl". But then I remembered her face from Fantastic Four and it was all good. Or it was all good once I realized she wasn't Jessica Beil. :blush:

[viscousmemories]

Did you know there is actual empirical evidence (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/25/nwiggle125.xml) that Jessica Alba has the sexiest wiggle?

[SharonDee]

There's a book I read years ago in school (elementary? high?) that I still remember pieces of but have forgotten its title. I want to see if the local library has a copy.

It's about a white guy raised by an American Indian tribe. I don't remember how he ended up with them but I recall stuff like he had to tweeze his beard hairs out when he reached puberty. And he did something that disappointed his adoptive father so much that the latter ripped off his own finger in despair.

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

[JoeP]

:giggle:

I didn't even have to Google that one. Me #1 one Alba fan!!!1

I knew you'd come through.

:fixed:

[seebs]

Okay there's this fantasy novel, and I think it might be for kids or teens, and it's supposed to be super funny. There's this kid and he meets up with this "demon" and he's called a demon because he's able to move between dimensions (demontions?). I think the demon is big and blue and furry, but I could be imagining that. So they go to this bazaar, that might be like a hub between dimensions. And they go to this one dimension that's supposed to be a MacDonald's but of course they don't recognize it because they're not from our dimension, so it's all frightening and confusing to them.

It's by some well-known fantasy author, I guess, like Piers Anthony, only not him. DH made me read it years before he was DH, because he thought I would think it was funny or cute, but now he has no idea what I'm talking about when I try to get him to remember what it was.

You are thinking of Robert Lynn Aspirins Myth Adventure series. The demon is green and scaly, and is named "Aahz" (he says "no relation"). The kid is named Skeeve. All the stories are roughly parodies of a particular genre of story, such as The Caper Movie or whatever. There's maybe 11 of them.