tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post5585204448116396798..comments2024-03-10T01:26:13.595-08:00Comments on Trainride Of The Enigmas: Minute Mystery With Lieutenant FordneyGeo.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-56286225194208187582015-11-30T12:19:11.352-08:002015-11-30T12:19:11.352-08:00My pleasure, and my privilege.My pleasure, and my privilege.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-24480367163388841892015-11-30T11:26:03.294-08:002015-11-30T11:26:03.294-08:00Thank you for the chuckle on this cloudy, gloomy d...Thank you for the chuckle on this cloudy, gloomy day!Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08506026496063245730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-78105789342305420032015-11-09T20:12:03.414-08:002015-11-09T20:12:03.414-08:00It's still early days in the campaign circus, ...It's still early days in the campaign circus, Louise. Much will happen and much will be revealed in the coming year but I believe we'll go to the polls with clear heads and hopeful hearts. As I say to my friend, Willie, every 4th year, "Hold your nose, mon ami, here we go again!Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-18965494843749827422015-11-09T18:42:27.625-08:002015-11-09T18:42:27.625-08:00Jenny O nailed it: whimsey! I enjoy your whimsic...Jenny O nailed it: whimsey! I enjoy your whimsical creations, Geo, and it's all the more fun because I never know what to expect when I visit your blog. I think I want to drop down into that dark hole until the 2016 elections are over, but I fear Lieutenant Fordney would drag me out before it happened. Although I have to admit I'm laughing a lot at all the political shenanigans. If only it weren't a whole long year ... Canada does it much better. Have a good one!Fundy Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02132147630106183853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-33887028318120344252015-11-07T18:23:58.225-08:002015-11-07T18:23:58.225-08:00Certainly a time of invention and progress, Mike. ...Certainly a time of invention and progress, Mike. I too would delight in the effects of the Rose Period of Picasso, the Fauvists, the precursors to magic ---Miró, Chirico, Modigliani-- but I'd also take a lot of penicillin. Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-43745965624732102092015-11-07T17:14:39.832-08:002015-11-07T17:14:39.832-08:00Have nothing to add; your commenters summed it up ...Have nothing to add; your commenters summed it up quite well above. Wouldst we go back to an earlier time, what better than the years of the Columbian Expo, and for the next 20....for most of the world. If a 5 year period was all I could choose, I'd pick Paris, 1904-1909. Should Fish Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400586203204886095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-72393196200760108772015-11-06T18:22:43.435-08:002015-11-06T18:22:43.435-08:00Ah, those were the days, Sage! 1892 Columbian Expo...Ah, those were the days, Sage! 1892 Columbian Expo in1893 and Little Egypt, Fatima Djemille, was only two or three of herself instead of who knows how many? And Bryan was still more interested in the ages of rocks than the Rock of Ages. Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-63389397715442638912015-11-06T17:51:23.909-08:002015-11-06T17:51:23.909-08:00You've aged well... Oh the 1890s: A depressio...You've aged well... Oh the 1890s: A depression, the World's Fair in Chicago, Haymarket riots and Williams Jennings Bryan (before he went ape on evolution) running for President as a liberal sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17499891950639742366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-49737273103498646942015-11-06T15:30:55.498-08:002015-11-06T15:30:55.498-08:00Thanks Susan. As a dude who has been impaneled num...Thanks Susan. As a dude who has been impaneled numerous times, I empathize completely. Even jurors get caught up in the atmosphere. When we'd go into deliberation, newbies would ask me how to vote for a foreperson. I'd reply, whether we vote or not, it's always the one sitting closest to the door. I never sat there. Did you? Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-74148639438942216562015-11-06T12:28:42.034-08:002015-11-06T12:28:42.034-08:00I've been on jury duty all week, so like Peaco...I've been on jury duty all week, so like Peacock, I wouldn't be surprised to hear more than a century had passed while I was distracted by a bunch of lawyer-speak, which in some cases, comes across as a series of thuds. (All finished in court! Although the defense lawyers just called to pick my brain, so to speak. Never had that happen before... I guess it was because I was the oldest one on the case?)<br /><br />Great post, dude. Susan Flett Swiderskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09425315552148200073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-41655848669873927972015-11-05T10:07:21.988-08:002015-11-05T10:07:21.988-08:00Dear Brigitta, most kind. I didn't want to kee...Dear Brigitta, most kind. I didn't want to keep the poor fellow in a pit for 122 years but couldn't figure another way to wrap up the story. Glad to hear the old Strand Magazine is being preserved; it has a great history.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-35913519863939353672015-11-05T01:34:27.965-08:002015-11-05T01:34:27.965-08:00Dear Geo., thank you!
A masterpiece of prolonged ...Dear Geo., thank you! <br />A masterpiece of prolonged suspense, indeed! For that long time the Master looks astonishingly fit. <br />Can you imagine that we own the original old Strand Magazines (now they stand in the library of the Hildesheimer University). <br />Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688373434576442657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-53748166044943075012015-11-04T18:45:38.818-08:002015-11-04T18:45:38.818-08:00Thanks Susan. 19th century book illustrations are ...Thanks Susan. 19th century book illustrations are such wonders of chiaroscuro they invite the imagination to apply itself. Hardest part is explaining the presence of a lantern --hence Mr. Thud and his campaign gift.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-8815783303962376672015-11-04T18:38:57.177-08:002015-11-04T18:38:57.177-08:00O, Jenny, with Sidney Paget's illustrations on...O, Jenny, with Sidney Paget's illustrations one is invited to create alternative explanations with pseudo-Holmesian deduction: when all possibilities have been eliminated, the impossible must provide the solution. Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-86396870829972031832015-11-04T17:34:39.239-08:002015-11-04T17:34:39.239-08:00Good luck on the ladder...it is hard for a pile of...Good luck on the ladder...it is hard for a pile of bones to get to the top.<br /><br />clever use of the illustration!Susan Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834094675218254410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-87279940287396589132015-11-04T17:02:57.190-08:002015-11-04T17:02:57.190-08:00Ahhh ... I so enjoy your whimsy, Geo.! Who else wo...Ahhh ... I so enjoy your whimsy, Geo.! Who else would have thought of this story just from seeing that page? jenny_ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475480579733466963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-2393910216686511402015-11-04T14:11:33.618-08:002015-11-04T14:11:33.618-08:00Excellent point, Delores. U.S. Republican candidat...Excellent point, Delores. U.S. Republican candidates are summarily professing faith in Creationism over Evolution in order to appeal to their constituents --as if either view has any bearing on the economy or endless military involvement in the Middle East. Not sure if it qualifies as luggage or baggage. However, all holes should definitely have ladders in them.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-12917874672362818722015-11-04T13:26:44.680-08:002015-11-04T13:26:44.680-08:00"Elementary" indeed. You recognize the P..."Elementary" indeed. You recognize the Paget illustration from "The Musgrave Ritual" by Conan Doyle. Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-2042784715340280392015-11-04T13:21:44.247-08:002015-11-04T13:21:44.247-08:00Kind Jon, I just really like sentences with lots o...Kind Jon, I just really like sentences with lots of p's in them.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-4060350544738592392015-11-04T13:18:48.562-08:002015-11-04T13:18:48.562-08:00I must agree. Few among us have not got distracted...I must agree. Few among us have not got distracted and forgot to reset the clocks for a century or two.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-60636719692690494282015-11-04T13:04:29.596-08:002015-11-04T13:04:29.596-08:00Thanks Tom. I too reach pretty far back for Minute...Thanks Tom. I too reach pretty far back for Minute Mysteries. Austin Ripley was a staple author of my childhood ---whose collections made inferential thinking and reading for details fun.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-47868305440935262252015-11-04T13:00:16.721-08:002015-11-04T13:00:16.721-08:00True. However it's often impossible to ignore ...True. However it's often impossible to ignore political Thuds.Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-43359413404346960642015-11-04T12:57:41.750-08:002015-11-04T12:57:41.750-08:00Politics can deaden the mind...poor fellow was pro...Politics can deaden the mind...poor fellow was probably better off down in the hole with the luggage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-27016073660291571152015-11-04T10:58:40.179-08:002015-11-04T10:58:40.179-08:00A delightful mystery yarn, more compact than most ...A delightful mystery yarn, more compact than most and that makes it more than elementary my dear Peacock.Tom Cochrunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04046822056852446079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740983595962649109.post-3391522666401691162015-11-04T09:07:32.508-08:002015-11-04T09:07:32.508-08:00Your witty way with words has provided us with ano...Your witty way with words has provided us with another thoroughly amusing dialog. It's always fun trying to extract my favorite sentences. Here it is:<br />"I perceive a plethora of porches you've yet to pant upon."Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02619128793632680659noreply@blogger.com