3rd Cue's a Charm?

David Stockhoff · 17 Jan 2009, 21:56 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:56:00 -0500
Subject: (urth) 3rd Cue's a Charm?
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I haven't read Borski on this story, nor do I claim to understand it. But few of those examples are even puns or anything like puns. Chair = toilet, OK; Deneb = tail; OK. But the rest are simply not-so-clever misspellings or forced associations. 

The game of football is no less scatological by this logic---all those tight ends, you know.

Wolfe doesn't require you to bring words to his stories. He provides all the words you need.

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:59:53 -0700
From: Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) 3rd Cue's a Charm?
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Hi Greg, thanks for posting. I rarely agree with Borski, but on this one 
I think he found the right approach. This thing is loaded with 
double-entendres and near-puns, leading to a scatological interpretation.

"not so young man" = "old coot" = cootie
"chair" = "throne" = toilet
"dark spheres filled with stars" = "firmament" = fundament
"coal sack" = "cul de sac" = end
Deneb = Arabic for "tail"
humor = "butt of a joke" = butt

In short, the story is about an STD passed by a bug on a toilet seat. 
When it withdraws, still grinning, it has just bitten its second victim, 
the second bowling ball (bottom) to use the seat in a toilet queue.

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