Talk:James D. Nicoll
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[edit] Cribhouse?
What is a cribhouse? Ewlyahoocom 04:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
- The OED says "d. slang (chiefly U.S.). A saloon, ‘low dive’, or brothel." 121a0012 02:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Death-defying situations
Let's list them! All I know is that he had a car accident once...
[edit] Injury stories
Oh, you wouldn't want that. Well, maybe you would, but I've been collecting Nicoll stories for the past several years; I've got something over 4000 lines (at 72 chars a line) of them. Admittedly, the last half or so is mostly about cats, because his cats (did I mention he's allergic to cats, and has nine of them, almost all rescued ferals?) keep doing odd things, but once he's told his past injury stories, they kind of slow down to a few a year. Anyway, there are a lot of injury stories, all told in a dry, understated, tone.
Here's one of them:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/0119c50b5ba0819d?dmode=source
Note the casual mention near the end of how "when I was a kid I was always excessively cautious, especially after the dog mauling and the fatal car crash."
I've considered putting my collection up on the web, but if I were to do it I'd want to do it right, with cross-referencing and indices and all, and a) I'm HTML incompetant, and b) I'm lazy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.17.22.215 (talk) 15:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC).
