Another point of agreement! That inane spelling reminds me of a local florist advertising "BOKAYS". (They weren't open for long.)
I did have a good time on the message boards shredding their versions of Cyclops and Treasure of the Grand Canyon.
I, too, find a few more bits and pieces every time I see HTH — or part of it. (All too often I'd find it after it had already started, then get interrupted and miss the ending.) Finally caught the "good intentions" paving the road to hell. And this last time, I was able to pause it and read the reservations at the table next to Attila, Cleopatra and Hitler.
My sister's eldest granddaughter has been telling me I should become a teacher. Never had the academic credentials for it. (Drafted out of college.) However, from what I'm hearing from my own and my little sister's grandchildren, that bar isn't nearly as high as it was when she and I were in school. Hmmm.
You got it! Three years on this board and you're the first! Congratulations!
('Twasn't night, 'twas brillig.)
Haven't figured out your name, but I do like ~~MystMoonstruck~~.
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Of atoms, stars and nebulæ, of entropy and genes;
And whether one can bend space;
And why the spaceship shrinks.
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MystMoonstruck
15 years ago
Myst Moonstruck is actually one of my character's names. I've been Alter Egoing since the Seventies~an activity that has been called roleplaying outside of penpalling. While I wouldn't normally go for "y" instead of "i", it just seemed right for my Elemental. For some reason, I chose Myst out of all the other characters. I've had people think I was a Cher fan!
Back to "HTH": I was thinking that this is one of the few times that the Devil has been treated somewhat sympathetically. He's been portrayed as attractive in many films, but generally he's quite a nasty guy. In this one, they show him as an appealing fellow, which is believable because evil with a pleasant face and nature is more likely to win over someone than evil/scary would.
By the way: College standards started dropping in the early Seventies, when many universities had to offer remedial classes in various majors. I heard this from professors when I went back to visit my favorites in 1976: that they had Remedial English for English majors! They said that Berkeley had done this even earlier, which truly was a depressing thought.
~~MystMoonstruck~~
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Frumious_Bandersnatch_46
15 years ago
Most interesting, Myst Moonstruck — and very poetic. I seem to have outgrown RPG's before they became popular.
Back to "HTH": I think you're right. Bergin's characterization of "Beezle" did have a surprising sense of fair-play about him. Not something one usually associates with the Devil-Lucifer-Satan-Beelzebub. But it was in keeping with Hades in the Orpheus story.
BTW: I found mentioned in passing some time ago that "Beelzebub" is a variation on the Hebrew expression Ba'al Zevuv "Lord of Flies".
I was going to say that it was too bad I didn't know about the plummeting college standards thirty years ago — then I realized that, while I might have met the old standards, I'd not have been able to afford the tuition.
Considering today's high school graduates, they may have to start offering Remedial English for English Teachers!
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Backward! Oh, backward, turn time in thy flight!
And it will be yesterday morning tonight.
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