The writers of the Codex have slipped in some puns...
When visiting Rum you can visit not Lake Como but Lake Perrycomo (http://www.answers.com/topic/perry-como (http://www.answers.com/topic/perry-como)) walk along the Pia Zadora (http://www.answers.com/topic/pia-zadora (http://www.answers.com/topic/pia-zadora)) and eat at the Great Kitchens of Coquus Boiardius (http://www.answers.com/topic/chef-boyardee (http://www.answers.com/topic/chef-boyardee)).
This is all in one entry has anyone found any others?
Look up Kale, Lord of Pemberly.
Elkhound!
That just made my day!
ROFL Thank you.
Speaking of Pemberly, I've wondered how one would write "Pride & Prejudice" in the Deryniverse.
The Bennetts would, probably, be an old Deryni family who had held onto enough land somehow to be considered gentry. Beyond that, I'm not sure. Would Darcy have some latent Deryni strain from some generations back that he was trying to suppress, which would explain why he acted all the time like he had a stick up his a@@? (Sort of like Jehenna.) What about Collins? We can't make him a clergyman, as they can't marry in the Deryniverse; a lawyer or scholar of some sort?
A Deryni/Pride and Prejudice crossover? I suppose it'd be less bloody than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.. Maybe.
Quote from: Aerlys on November 18, 2014, 02:08:39 PM
A Deryni/Pride and Prejudice crossover? I suppose it'd be less bloody than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.. Maybe.
Or what about "Emma" in the Deryniverse? I can imagine a Deryni!Emma using her powers to manipulate her. . .erm. . .patients; which would make Knightly's rebukes all the more serious.
Also, look up Rathold Lord D'or Alaric Morgan's wardrober in Coroth who intermarried with Danna, Lady Corin and his daughter married William, Lord of Blass...
And yes, Robert Reginald was a great appreciator of puns....I know this from personal acquaintance. He also thought up some of the craziest causes of death. "The Musty Mewls" being one of my favorites.
Melissa
Quotecauses of death. "The Musty Mewls" being one of my favorites.
I am afraid to ask what a Musty Mewl is. Some sort of poisonous vapors?
Perhaps Musty Mewls are a respiratory condition where the lungs become musty and the throat shrinks and the patient can only mewl like a kitten and only swallow liquids like a kitten? Or it is caused by spending too much time in musty rooms, where the reeds have not been changed in years?
Varnar of Bassetdale, Saint
The patron saint of Deryni learning and healing and of the hounds of the hunt...
An image of Saint Varnar rising from the ground while surrounded by a pack of baying hounds was en-tiled into a superb mosaic by the Deryni master Vael son of Amiel... in the Church of Saint Varnar in Sestos.
I am wondering if KK's dogs had anything to do this. I am envisioning KK's bassets baying at their megister, the great Deryni Healer of Grecotha.
While doing some research today, Evie, Laurna, and I came across some indication that perhaps Duke Angus of Claibourne had a slight tobacco addiction (if one could be had in Gwynedd in the 1100s), based on the names he gave his children:
• Lord Sigardh (cigar)
• Lady Sigarette (cigarette)
• Lady Tiparilla (tiparillo)
Ha! I love it!
Quote from: Nezz on February 04, 2022, 07:43:25 PM
While doing some research today, Evie, Laurna, and I came across some indication that perhaps Duke Angus of Claibourne had a slight tobacco addiction (if one could be had in Gwynedd in the 1100s), based on the names he gave his children:
• Lord Sigardh (cigar)
• Lady Sigarette (cigarette)
• Lady Tiparilla (tiparillo)
Love those names. Still chuckling
Just came across this one and can not stop laughing.
Matyas Imre Furstan, King of Torenth (748-808) had many daughters. One of his daughters is Princess Kypriana and she marries Kermit Count von Frughy
(Unless I am totally missing the mark, she married Kermit the Frog)
One of his other daughters became Sister Stanislawa of the Venerable Virgins of Vezaire.
Quote from: Laurna on October 15, 2022, 10:02:19 PMJust came across this one and can not stop laughing.
Matyas Imre Furstan, King of Torenth (748-808) had many daughters. One of his daughters is Princess Kypriana and she marries Kermit Count von Frughy
(Unless I am totally missing the mark, she married Kermit the Frog)
One of his other daughters became Sister Stanislawa of the Venerable Virgins of Vezaire.
The marriage ran into problems because of Count Kermit's absent-minded way of catching flies with his tongue during banquets...
Quote from: Shiral on October 19, 2022, 01:03:13 AMThe marriage ran into problems because of Count Kermit's absent-minded way of catching flies with his tongue during banquets...
Not to mention his pig-girlfriend kept giving everyone karate-chops!
Here is a small pun to jot down.
Festil I Furstan King of Gwynedd after the coup in 822 had many children, His youngest daughter born in 816 was Yolande Furstana-Festil Her nick name was the Festil Virgin. Makes me wonder if she became a Priestess.:D
"Orsal and Tralia" page 197
"On the IInd day of June in the year 603 His High-Higness Hewney von Horthy intermarried with Princess Dorothea heiress of west Tralia, and presented the Princess with a pair of Ruby-encrusted slippers as a token of his undying thanks."
I have been reminded that this was shown to me by Fruit a while back, at the time we certainly got a good laugh as Dorothy received her pair of Ruby slippers.
Just this week Evie discovered an oddity in the later part of this same paragraph:
"Much of this Eastern part of Tralia consists of salt bush and scrub, being unfit for cultivation of even for grazing, but providing excellent hunting of tri-antlered antelope and the lustrous lupesculus during the waning months of Autumn."
What could possibly be a tri-antlered antelope? First of all, antelope don't have antlers, they have horns. They do not shed their horns the way that deer shed their antlers. Tri- antlered? Are we now talking about a three horned mythical creature? Curiosity sent me looking up what a Lustrous Lupesculus is. No results what so ever, not even a latin name for an animal.
The paragraph continues:
"The Princess Hortensia von Horthy wrote in her 'Leme on a Lepine Leavetaking' that "nothing could be finer than a lambent Lepusiner," but madame Stavroula notes in her 'Commentary on Corolary' that "the Lady Hortensia had no sense of taste or smell in her latter years, making any invitations to her 'soirees des lapins' eminently resistible."
Anyone care to shed a light on these mythical creatures of Tralia. Perhaps we need to travel to Tralia in seeking the rare photo opportunities of finding these Lapins, Lepusiners, Lupesculus and tri-antlered antelope. Will we need a pair of Ruby Slippers to get there?
I'm hoping that everyone is aware that there's a bit of tongue-in-cheek going on with the name Horthy itself...