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Spoilers TOS: Probe by Margaret Wander Bonanno Review Thread

Don't know if there is any more backstory than that @garamet is almost an anagram of Margaret.

Somewhere the second "r" must have been lost in the shuffle. :rommie:

Heh...Sherlock Holmes I ain't.


It reminds me of that old scene from the Simpsons:


Mr. Taylor: Hi, Lisa, I'm Alison's father, Professor Taylor. I've heard great things about you.
Lisa: Oh, really? I...
Mr. Taylor: Oh, don't be modest. I'm glad we have someone who can join us in our anagram game.
Alison: We take proper names and rearrange the letters to form a description of that person.
Mr. Taylor: Like, er...Oh, I don't know, uh...Alec Guinness.
Alison: Genuine class.
Mr. Taylor: Ho ho, very good. Alright, Lisa, um...Jeremy Irons.
Lisa: Uh, Jeremy's...iron.
Mr. Taylor: Mm hmm, well, that's...very good...for a first try. You know what? I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?
 
Heh...Sherlock Holmes I ain't.


It reminds me of that old scene from the Simpsons:


Mr. Taylor: Hi, Lisa, I'm Alison's father, Professor Taylor. I've heard great things about you.
Lisa: Oh, really? I...
Mr. Taylor: Oh, don't be modest. I'm glad we have someone who can join us in our anagram game.
Alison: We take proper names and rearrange the letters to form a description of that person.
Mr. Taylor: Like, er...Oh, I don't know, uh...Alec Guinness.
Alison: Genuine class.
Mr. Taylor: Ho ho, very good. Alright, Lisa, um...Jeremy Irons.
Lisa: Uh, Jeremy's...iron.
Mr. Taylor: Mm hmm, well, that's...very good...for a first try. You know what? I have a ball. Perhaps you'd like to bounce it?
Golden Age Simpsons is best Simpsons.
 
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Don't know if there is any more backstory than that @garamet is almost an anagram of Margaret.

Somewhere the second "r" must have been lost in the shuffle. :rommie:

It just scans better with only one "r." And, yes, Gene did name a character after me. (The PROBE debacle resulted in a wonderful friendship until he passed. We even did a "He said/She said" panel at a fan-run con called MaquisGras in Portage, Indiana in 1997. He was a prince. I still miss him.
 
I'm glad to hear there was no hard feelings. At least something good came out of all that. One of my favorite Star Trek novels was by Gene DeWeese, "Chain of Attack". I couldn't put it down.
 
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