Jeerio Trise to Finds a Job

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:59 am

There?s a book about someone?s recent travels to Kergu?len. I?ll have to see if I can find it, though I think it?s a British book.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 10:15 pm

Recent books on Kergu?len:

Les ?les Kerguelen : un monde exotique sans indig?ne : ?tude ethnologique d'une communaut? transitoire dans un espace clos / Alexandra Marois.
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2003. 98 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. ISBN: 2747541916

This is the travel book:

The arch of Kerguelen : voyage to the Islands of Desolation / Jean-Paul Kauffmann. New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. xi, 206 p. : map ; 22 cm. ISBN: 1568581688

In the UK it was published as:

Voyage to Desolation Island / Jean-Paul Kauffmann. London : Harvill, 2001. 177 p. : map ; 22 cm. ISBN: 1860469264

And then there?s:

Au vent des Kerguelen : un s?jour solitaire dans les ?les de la d?solation / Christophe Houdaille. Paris : Transbor?al, 2000. 285 p., [48] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm. ISBN: 2913955010

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:57 pm

I have just one piece of advice for Jeerio: Try an alternative to capitalism.

Drakes · Post by **Drakes** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:58 pm

I'd like to visit Kerguelen. Although it is very harsh in climate it is in some areas quite beautiful.

Here are some links:

About a British journalist's dream of visiting Kerguelen and his eventual six-month stay.

http://www.times-archive.co.uk/onlinesp ... es/parris/

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http://www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/kergue ... lands.html

http://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/iaaf/kerg ... rgueln.htm

http://ile.kerguelen.free.fr/accueil.htm

http://www.edouard.com/travel/southern-seas96.html

http://www.taaf.fr/rubriques/taaf/bases/taaf_bases.htm

and the weather forecast:

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/61998.html

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:16 am

Eddy the Great wrote:I have just one piece of advice for Jeerio: Try an alternative to capitalism.

Yep, that's the most important thing to care about when commenting stories written by eleven-year olds.

(Twenty years from now, Eddy's eleven year old kid comes to him:

Kid: Look, Daddy, I've finished my story about Jambog the weird blue frog!

Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:21 am

BTW, Mark,

Glenn Kempf wrote: Actually, I think most of the editing was to remove Earthly and other non-Almean references; in the excerpt from the original text given on the Secret History of Almea page, Jeerio is interested in "Alchemy and Logarithms, and Kerguelen Island and Piggy Banks",

who's Piggy Banks?

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:36 am

Raphael wrote:BTW, Mark,

Glenn Kempf wrote: Actually, I think most of the editing was to remove Earthly and other non-Almean references; in the excerpt from the original text given on the Secret History of Almea page, Jeerio is interested in "Alchemy and Logarithms, and Kerguelen Island and Piggy Banks",
who's Piggy Banks?

It's not a person, it's another word for 'money box'. At least, I hope it is.

Ghost

Post by **zompist** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 11:46 am

Raphael wrote:who's Piggy Banks?

Jar-Jar's brother?

A piggy bank is a ceramic pig which used to be given to kids to save coins in. The repressive character-building ones had no way to get the money out but to smash the pig. The friendlier ones had a stopper you could remove to get at the cash.

Aurora Rossa · Post by **Aurora Rossa** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:54 pm

(Twenty years from now, Eddy's eleven year old kid comes to him:

Kid: Look, Daddy, I've finished my story about Jambog the weird blue frog!

Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

LOL!

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:59 pm

I liked the story. It was very good for an 11 year-old. The pictures were also excellent. You can see a lot of Mark's humour forming in the story, it's very interesting.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 8:13 pm

Raphael wrote:Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

Drakes · Post by **Drakes** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:46 pm

Shm Jay wrote:
Raphael wrote:Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

Ghost · Post by **Ghost** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 10:59 am

Read it last night - brilliant stuff! I would be pleased with myself if I wrote that - and I'm 14! Even so young, we're seeing the trademark Zompist humour intertwined with typical Hitchhiker's style humour. Well done!

Ghost

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:42 pm

I just wanted to revive Jeerio for a moment; I was re-reading the story, and was impressed once again by the sharpness of Mark's wit, even back then.

[T]he sun was setting, as it so often does, and the birds were singing in the trees?polkas and waltzes, mostly.

I love that line.

?I could look for adventures on weekends,? Jeerio pointed out. ?I could find some Dwarfs?they always have adventures to share..."

It took at least my third reading of this before I thought of The Hobbit...

p@,
Glenn

Warmaster · Post by **Warmaster** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:57 pm

Raphael wrote:
(Twenty years from now, Eddy's eleven year old kid comes to him:

Kid: Look, Daddy, I've finished my story about Jambog the weird blue frog!

Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

Classic

, but unfortunately, it's lible to happen

And Yep, Glenn got there before me on the hobbit idea. i knew something was bugging me about the story, but he figured it out before me

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:59 pm

Hey, thanks everyone. I've got one more question for Mark: Is that line about how we all probably want to read something else added or from the original? It reminds me so much of the adult Mark we know.

Post by **zompist** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:26 pm

Raphael wrote:Hey, thanks everyone. I've got one more question for Mark: Is that line about how we all probably want to read something else added or from the original? It reminds me so much of the adult Mark we know.

That's in the original.

butsuri · Post by **butsuri** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:38 pm

zompist wrote:Heh, I shouldn't have implied that there was just one interesting fact about Kerguelen Island.

Something I read today:

Any population that goes through a bottleneck has no choice but to evolve. Cats tell the story. Cities are filled with feline diversity - tabby, black and white, orange, lonng-haired and all the rest. Islands are different. Every cat on the remote French Dependency of Kerguelen, in the southern Indian Ocean, is black (some mitigated by splashes of white), no doubt becaues the few arrivals carried only those genes. On the equally French territory of St Pierre-Miquelon, fifteen miles off Newfoundland, the cats are different again. Their genes are not like those of the nearby mainland, but a reduced sample of those of Bordeaux, two thousand miles away.

From Almost Like a Whale:The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones.

Jaaaaaa · Post by **Jaaaaaa** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:31 pm

pastoralist wrote:
Shm Jay wrote:
Raphael wrote:Eddy: Oh, how nice! Does Jambog rightfully condemn the oppressive evils of capitalism and girls dressing in other ways than boys?

Kid: (very annoyed voice) Yeeees, Dad, I've thought of that...)

That smiley... argh, I HATE it! It is the most messed-up smiley evar!

DF · Post by DF » Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:45 pm

...especially when you highlight it.

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