Penny Dreadful

[shereads]

Ever have a phrase that you heard once, in a context too unimportant to be remembered, suddenly roost in your brain like a homing pigeon? "Penny dreadful." Isn't that an antique term for pulp-fiction?

What a fabulous name for a heroine. She's probably a bookish Victorian-era spinster, age 26 and considered on-the-shelf. She owns a dog named Hubris and secretly watches the vicar working his garden with his shirt buttons undone.

Or not. Whatever.

 

[Awful Arthur]

Ever have a phrase that you heard once, in a context too unimportant to be remembered, suddenly roost in your brain like a homing pigeon? "Penny dreadful." Isn't that an antique term for pulp-fiction?

What a fabulous name for a heroine. She's probably a bookish Victorian-era spinster, age 26 and considered on-the-shelf. She owns a dog named Hubris and secretly watches the vicar working his garden with his shirt buttons undone.

Or not. Whatever.

Shhh. That's one of my alts.

 

[Guest]

Perfect. I think that's what I'll call my new AV. Feeling a bit pulpy. P.

 

[shereads]

Feeling a bit pulpy.

That line would be at home in the Parrot Sketch.


"It's pining for the fjords."

"No, it isn't! It's dead."

"It's not dead; it's feeling a bit pulpy."

~ ~ ~

How about "Brevity DeWitt?" Penny Dreadful's wealthy Society cousin.

 

[oggbashan]

Ever have a phrase that you heard once, in a context too unimportant to be remembered, suddenly roost in your brain like a homing pigeon? "Penny dreadful." Isn't that an antique term for pulp-fiction?

What a fabulous name for a heroine. She's probably a bookish Victorian-era spinster, age 26 and considered on-the-shelf. She owns a dog named Hubris and secretly watches the vicar working his garden with his shirt buttons undone.

Or not. Whatever.

Penny Dreadfuls were 1890s adventure fiction sold at railway bookstalls. They had luridly coloured paper covers usually showing some action from the plot. They were the comics of their day.

Penny Dreadful IS the name of a heroine. She is a detective who also appears in Penny Post and others. I think they were written by Susan Moody. I'll check.

Og

PS. Edited. Yes, Susan Moody did write 'Penny Dreadful'

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful IS the name of a heroine. She is a detective who also appears in Penny Post and others. I think they were written by Susan Moody. I'll check.

Og

PS. Edited. Yes, Susan Moody did write 'Penny Dreadful'

Curses!



What about Brevity DeWitt? If that one's taken too, I can't quit my day job.

 

[woodnymph_O]

REenny

I dont think anything will ever out do Pussy Galore , that name stil kills me.
Nymphy

 

[impressive]

Hmmmm ... let's get some males in here.

How 'bout "Bolt Upright, P.I."

 

[china-doll]

Hmmmm ... let's get some males in here.

How 'bout "Bolt Upright, P.I."

Well, there is already a "Dirk Gently, Wholistic Private Investigator" given to us by the late, great Douglas Adams.

 

[Guest]

I want to meet a bloke who hands me his card that reads "Private Dick".

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Hmmmm ... let's get some males in here.

How 'bout "Bolt Upright, P.I."

"Please, Mr. Upright, don't turn me in...May I call you 'Bolt?'"