Bonobashi wrote:
> Dear heavens, what a dreadful misunderstanding in the making!
>
> I solemnly aver that I was referring to the resident haunt of the list, a
> close relative of Peeves of legend, who glories in the name of Veritabil
> Deniabiliti. My research shows that this is an Indo-Iranian forest deity
> represented in later English folk-lore and hunting legend as Hereward the
> Wake. VD prowls around the forest glades on the shores of the Caspian Sea,
> snapping up and feasting on laggards from the herds of wild swine found there
> in times of yore. Later, unfortunately, during the prosperous years of the
> Celtic tribes, these proud animals were shipped off by greedy Armenian carpet
> merchants who hadn't discovered carpets to the forests of Armorica. There
> they were the prey of blood-thirsty Gallic warriors banned from battle by
> their ritual uncleanliness at the time of the cutting of the holy mistletoe.
> VD was cut off from his natural prey, lost his corporeal form and became a
> list haunt, a peculiarly foul-smelling bogle who pounces on groups
> of merry-making e-mailers and can be evicted only by the utterance of
> powerful mantras of eldritch force.
>
> Whatever could you have been thinking of? A great diplomatic calamity has
> been averted.
>
You should seriously consider a career in mashups. Nice imagination and
a good mix of PGW, G&U, JRRT... who did I miss?
