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Philip Purser-Hallard
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Philip Purser-Hallard writes stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things.
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And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Batman’s aff his nut
Have you seen the way he cuts aboot
Dressed up as a mad fuckin bat
Batterin guys
I was lit at:
“Mate, I’m worried aboot ye
I know your ma and da died
But everybody’s ma and da dies
And we’re no aw runnin aboot
Hookin muggers and
Kickin psychopaths in the baws.”
And that was when Batman went
“Aye, but do ye ever feel like it?
Do you ever look at the world and feel like it?
Like having a big mad base under your hoose?
Do you ever feel like drivin a big mad motor
that turns intae a tank?
And leatherin fuck oot of guys aw night?
Scarin the fuckin shite oot of them?”
And that’s when I was lit at:
“Aye. Fuck it. Ah dae.”
And that’s the Secret Origin of Robin
And everyone else.
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I feel like DRAMATIC MASK could work if you tried hard enough. GP=DR, court=ASK and there are two MAs in there. Must be some way of doing it.

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Maybe they couldn't think of anything more specific.

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Sorry, that may not be much help.

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I read Richard Ellman's Yeats: The Man and the Masks. It was probably on a reading list. Can't remember much about it now.

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Generally hereditary since monarchical times, though. Scaroth's 20th-century fragment would have no antecedents to inherit from.

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Also, where and when did Scarlioni become a Count?

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Also of possible interest - Tolkien on Sam's flaws.

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It would need to give the correct responses to stimuli, like any mention of Love Shack.

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Ooh, I've never seen that. (At least, I remember my parents watching it, but I was probably playing with Lego at the time.)

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Philip Purser-Hallard
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Philip Purser-Hallard writes stuff -- most recently Sherlock Holmes: The Monster of the Mere. Posting about writing, TV, SF, Doctor Who, politics, language, crosswords, things I like, things I'm interested in, things.
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