submiter is a swot and a sneke and i diskard him completely.

Rusty Shackleford: [t1.gstatic.com image 194x227]

submiter is a swot and a sneke and i diskard him completely.

i use that line all the time.

/read whizz for atoms dozens of times

I am a great fan of Ronald Searle. I have many of his books, although by no means all. I have some things he illustrated as well. His understanding of the female mind (especially the evil that is little girls) is unmatched in its depth. He is totally without sentimentality on the subject. I want it all.

I also have several St. Trinian movies on VHS and DVD, but not all of them. They are on my Wish List. The movies are by no means up to the Master's standards but Alistair Sims is delightful as the Head Mistress in the old movies, and the guy who plays her in the new movies does a fine job as well.

I even have some of his work on my Kindle, although work as good as his is a great pleasure on real paper because the aging pages feel so nice in your hand and do better justice to the pen and ink lines, which are masterful.

Ronald Searle's women and girls are mostly mafiosi in drag, but then who could blame them? It's much more fun to smoke cigars, drink brandy and whisky, and use the stiletto and the revolver than it is to be a proper Englishwoman.

People who like Ronald Searle may also like the bizarre whimsy of Nolan (late of the Vancouver Sun), his inspiration Emmett (famous for his Victorian contrivances of air, land and sea, not to mention the bath), the gothic elegance of Edward Gorey, and also the great cartoonists of the New Yorker and Punch, including Gahan Wilson and Charles Addams, masters of the macabre and film noir style.

The great thing about ALL of Ronald Searle's work is that it is gleefully naughty. There is such joie de vivre in every murder and every crime passionel, civil or criminal.

As I said, he really has a realistic and unsentimental understanding of little girls and even little boys to a degree. And aren't we all a little bit diabolically possessed at times? I know I am or else I wouldn't recognize myself and others in the cartoonist's fancy.

At first I thought that this was an excerpt from a Discworld book I'd not yet read. Which made me smile.

Subby have face like a baboon and are obviously not my grate friend Peason.


/gaze at my strange unnnatural beauty

grinding_journalist: You know how I know subby doesn't have an English degree?

Econ with an English minor, actually. But you always need an angle to get the green.

Also, Obligatory (^)

/Subby

you have caught me, sir, like a treen in a disabled spaceship.