Why Everyone Needs a Good Copyeditor

[gnomi]

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=18786&dept=3920&product_id=454473

(wow, I seem to be posting a lot of URLs recently. No real explanation as to why)

That's not the version of The Hobbit that I remember...

Comments

[eal.livejournal.com]

Okay, who went and changed the Hobbit? I think I would have remembered the homosexual prostitute. :)

Beth

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dumdum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and ... discipline?... naked? ... With a melon!?

First thing I thought of when I read that . . . synopsis.

Children's Stories sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus episode 103, written by Eric Idle, John Cleese, et al.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. I'd forgotten that sketch. I've found that Monty Python has just the right comment for many situations.

Oh - and welcome to my little corner of the universe. Do I know you, or did you just happen to stumble across my weird little world?

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

Ain't the truth.

I found your post on the denialcorp "friends" page and couldn't help myself.

Oh, and I loved the readiness icons page as well. :giggle:

[tinnean.livejournal.com]

Well, shoot! All I get is the Wal-Mart page!

I feel so unloved! ::sniffle::

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Waah! They appear to have taken down the faulty text (well, actually, the whole page at the moment. But fear not - I saved the page before they took it down. The description for the book reads:

Description

On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there's Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their lives complicates the others is the stuff of this perfect little novel.The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo, Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish.

Boxed hardcover bound in green leatherette with gold and red foil stamping, two-color typography, and five full-page color illustrations by the author

[tinnean.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Nomi. O_O And this was for The Hobbit? I had *no* idea!!