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A meme! This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal (or on the messageboard, geek forum etc), including an explanation, what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
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sparra...
Q is for:
Q300 which is the UCAS course code for English Literature, a subject that is very dear to me. When I was in the first year I memorised the phrase "a distinctly female bildungsroman" with which to describe Jane Eyre and it has been randomly popping into my head ever since, though for some reason only in a Yorkshire accent. Something else that I can only hear in a Yorkshire accent is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." This one goes back to Year 11. I don't know why this happens. I wish I did.
Quor'toth which is the hell dimension where Angel's son Connor was brought up. I believe it is somewhat unpleasant.
Q'apla, a handy Klingon word that means, variously, "Hello!", "Goodbye!", "Good hunting!", "I salute you!", "Today is a good day to die!", "How you doing" etc etc etc. The only other word of Klingon I know is baHk which means "to fire a torpedo" but since I can't conjugate it it has rather restricted use.
Quince jelly. I have read about this in books. I wonder what it is? It sounds like the sort of food you can only eat if you have very delicate silver spoons and always sit up very straight.
Quentin. The first Quentin that springs to mind is Quentin Blake, an illustrator who did the pictures in all my Roald Dahl books and some of the Margaret Mahy books that my great aunt in New Zealand (aka Auntie Mary Across the Sea) used to send me for Christmas and birthdays (until I got to about 16 when she just sent me a note saying "adult books cost too much to send"), including "The Great Piratical Rumbustification" which is a thing of wonders. Another literary Quentin is Quentin Kirrin who was George's father in the Famous Five books. When I was in Year 3 I made a hand puppet of him with a papier mache head. Looking back, this is a fairly inexplicable decision on my part. Yet another Quentin is Quentin Crisp, but I don't know who he is.
Quirrell, who was the villain (spoiler!) in the first Harry Potter book. He had Voldemort stuck to the back of his head. Which is pretty weird.
The Questin' Beast, who features in my Favouritest Book Ever, The Once and Future King.
A question. The only thing more dangerous than this is, I believe, an answer. (Ferengi rule of acquisition no. 208)
Q, who was a character who occasionally popped up on TNG to be omnipotent at people. He was also in Voyager but I missed all his episodes. He was played by John de Lancie who has been in many things including Ally McBeal and an episode of Andromeda called "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" (why do I remember these things?) playing a friend of Beka's father who tried to get her hooked on Flash, which is a Bad Thing. This was also the episode where Trance strangled someone with her tail. Good times.
and finally, Q is for quiet please which I have never said, despite working in a library. Though the other day some people stopped talking and looked guilty when I wandered in to count their heads. Ah, the power.
See Rach? See what you have done? Wow, 30% of that was about Star Trek.
Today, it rains.
I got given the letter Q by
sparra...Q is for:
Q300 which is the UCAS course code for English Literature, a subject that is very dear to me. When I was in the first year I memorised the phrase "a distinctly female bildungsroman" with which to describe Jane Eyre and it has been randomly popping into my head ever since, though for some reason only in a Yorkshire accent. Something else that I can only hear in a Yorkshire accent is "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day..." This one goes back to Year 11. I don't know why this happens. I wish I did.
Quor'toth which is the hell dimension where Angel's son Connor was brought up. I believe it is somewhat unpleasant.
Q'apla, a handy Klingon word that means, variously, "Hello!", "Goodbye!", "Good hunting!", "I salute you!", "Today is a good day to die!", "How you doing" etc etc etc. The only other word of Klingon I know is baHk which means "to fire a torpedo" but since I can't conjugate it it has rather restricted use.
Quince jelly. I have read about this in books. I wonder what it is? It sounds like the sort of food you can only eat if you have very delicate silver spoons and always sit up very straight.
Quentin. The first Quentin that springs to mind is Quentin Blake, an illustrator who did the pictures in all my Roald Dahl books and some of the Margaret Mahy books that my great aunt in New Zealand (aka Auntie Mary Across the Sea) used to send me for Christmas and birthdays (until I got to about 16 when she just sent me a note saying "adult books cost too much to send"), including "The Great Piratical Rumbustification" which is a thing of wonders. Another literary Quentin is Quentin Kirrin who was George's father in the Famous Five books. When I was in Year 3 I made a hand puppet of him with a papier mache head. Looking back, this is a fairly inexplicable decision on my part. Yet another Quentin is Quentin Crisp, but I don't know who he is.
Quirrell, who was the villain (spoiler!) in the first Harry Potter book. He had Voldemort stuck to the back of his head. Which is pretty weird.
The Questin' Beast, who features in my Favouritest Book Ever, The Once and Future King.
A question. The only thing more dangerous than this is, I believe, an answer. (Ferengi rule of acquisition no. 208)
Q, who was a character who occasionally popped up on TNG to be omnipotent at people. He was also in Voyager but I missed all his episodes. He was played by John de Lancie who has been in many things including Ally McBeal and an episode of Andromeda called "The Pearls That Were His Eyes" (why do I remember these things?) playing a friend of Beka's father who tried to get her hooked on Flash, which is a Bad Thing. This was also the episode where Trance strangled someone with her tail. Good times.
and finally, Q is for quiet please which I have never said, despite working in a library. Though the other day some people stopped talking and looked guilty when I wandered in to count their heads. Ah, the power.
See Rach? See what you have done? Wow, 30% of that was about Star Trek.
Today, it rains.