If you’re an old computer gamer1 you’ve probably played or at least heard of Lucas Arts classic Monkey Island series. I know I’m about a decade behind on this, but it just recently came to my attention that the dueling insults were actually written by Orson Scott Card, author of the Ender’s Game series and many others.
Two random links of pseudo-relevance: 1. His website has interesting pictures of him at a sci fi conference in Israel. 2. See I-Mockery’s Monkey Island 2 Outtakes.
1. Meaning, you’re a geek who likes playing old computer games or you’re just an old geek who used to be a gamer back in the good ‘ol days.
(כִּי לֹא מַחְשְׁבוֹתַי מַחְשְׁבוֹתֵיכֶם וְלֹא דַרְכֵיכֶם דְּרָכָי (ישעיהו נה:ח
You Write Like A Dairy Farmer
September 28, 2004 Literature
Very not related: Pursuing an option other than the one you presumed.
Somewhat related: You could use this hock’s title as the opening for a nice spoof on Smashing Pumpkins’ “Rat In A Cage.”
Hardly a day goes by when I don’t use, “That’s the second largest giant skull I’ve ever seen!”