This classic A&J is from five years ago, 2012. I’d like to take credit for pioneering bathroom humor in the newspaper comics—I should stress bathtub humor—but I can’t. No feature has explored the disrupted bathing experience longer or more often than that storied and staid grand dame of the funnies, Blondie.
156 responses to “For Whom the Bell Tinkles”
I don’t understand the “with a chainsaw” thing. Can someone please explain it to me?
Miss Charlotte, it’s just something someone came up with to make funny book titles. I haven’t read any of these, but various Best Selling Lists would yield…
Crazy Little Thing with a Chainsaw
And Then She was Gone with a Chainsaw
Three Daughters with a Chainsaw
Into the Water with a Chainsaw
House of Spies with a Chainsaw
The Girl on the Train with a Chainsaw
A Gentleman in Moscow with a Chainsaw
Behind Closed Doors with a Chainsaw
The Silent Wife with a Chainsaw
Sort of like adding “in bed” to fortune cookie “fortunes”, I suppose.
Oops, Bob beat me to one of those.
the spy who came in from the cold with a chainsaw
the hunt for red october with a chainsaw
dune with a chainsaw
moon of three rings with a chainsaw
the name of the wind with a chainsaw
ok llee needs to put down the computer…….with a chainsaw
Mark:
Heinlein is one of my top favorites.
Imagine my surprise when I saw my surname in “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.”
By the way, what do you think of Frank Herbert?
Therefore, do not send to know
For whom the bell tinkles,
It does not tinkle for thee.
Poor Arlo.
Rick: Delightful!
Old house, where we lived 46 yr., had a long, claw-foot tub with no shower in a reasonably large bathroom. Most evenings we were both there, mostly starkers [now in dictionary], one in tub, other out. Elaine usually first; she like water really hot.
Peace,
Rick, i liked the original Dune very much when I first read it. That encouraged me to read some of the sequels. The sequels wore me out and I haven’t reread Dune since. I still remember liking it, but can no longer remember much of it.
Dearest Ghost, and dear Llee too, thank you muchly for the explanation! I gotta ask, “Why these words and not some other ones?” But assume there is a reason lurking in the far distant past, now forgotten.
emb, your tub nights sound perfectly lovely.
Rick,
There’s a Frank & Brian Herbert that I love, “Man of Two Worlds.” We just have to hope the Dreen Ryll never gets killed!
Charlotte in NH, someone posted it on FB as a game, and I decided this highly literate group would enjoy playing it. The instructions were simple, take the title of the last book you read, add with a Chainsaw, and post the result.
As Lowell Thomas used to say, so long until tomorrow.
From Last night
2 I am reading
“Coolidge” with a Chainsaw (About the President) not so good.
“Eats, Shoots & Leaves” with a Chainsaw (Lynne Truss – about punctuation) very good.
The last one I finished:
“Railroads In The Woods” with a Chainsaw
(about logging in the Northwest in the late 1800?s and early twentieth century — without chainsaws)
When I thought of this – how appropriate
Tom Holt – one of an sextet of favorite authors
“My Hero” with a Chain Saw
“Wish You Were Here” with a Chain Saw
“Overtime” with a Chain Saw
“Saints & Sinners” with Chain Saws
“Expecting someone Taller” with a Chain Saw
“Violence In The Education Sector” with a Chain Saw
“Lucia In Wartime” with a Chain Saw
“Someone Like Me” with a Chain Saw
These are a few of his titles that fit the theme
This morning, by request of my MBH, we bought her some shoes at an emporium more than 20 miles away. I suppose one of her friends told her it was a special place. IMHO, it was ordinary and with less apparent stock than I had expected. Of course, the prices were, er, um, (ahem), “exalted” to an unusual extent.
Two things she wanted, they had: separate shoes for “walking” and for “exercising” (in place). No doubt we older villagers, while young, risked horrible injuries by using plain old sneakers for walking, running, pedaling, playing ball, and climbing trees.
Here’s an idea for any of you who are entrepreneurially inclined: market special walking shoes for those walking in north/south directions and also for those walking in east/west directions!! The rationale might be along the lines of the differing surface speeds of earthly rotation when one changes position N/S compared to no such changes while heading E/W…. The differing speeds mentioned might entail variable amounts of traction. I was informed as much for exercise shoes: they needed more traction than walking shoes. At our ages, I doubt that – we can use good traction any time we can get it.
I once heard a similar phrase to be added to titles of anything: “with chopsticks” .
Mark:
I had a different reaction for the sequels that Frank himself wrote. I liked them all.
However, when Brian began co-writing, I didn’t like them quite as much. I still liked them greatly but not as much as before.
I haven’t read the last 2 or 3, though. Because of my work schedule, I just don’t have the time.
David:
I thought that I had read everything that Frank had written or co-written. That one, I missed.
Thanks for the suggestion.
EMB:
That’s high praise – thanks.
Now, I have to leave for work.
The office beckons.
Hippos. Peace,
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Mark from TTown, thank you! I have read a few obits about June Foray, but that remembrance is fuller and richer. I always marvel at her sky-high intelligence, heard in her timing, her emphases, subtle mood shifts. And such a fair, kind person. And how many roles the writer mentioned! Thank you again! What a wonderful piece.