On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: > >> Thanks to Jack and Paul for stepping up and really getting the release >> announcement[1] built. We, at Docs, have reviewed the final draft and think >> we are in consensus that it is complete. Please look over it and see if >> anything jumps out at you. If not, this is what we'd like to go with. > > I like it. It makes me smile, and not much does. > > Minor suggestions: > > (1) Change Dr. Brattlesworth to some sort of pun on a Fedora name? Unless > Brattlesworth has some other meaning that I simply don't get. Well Brattlesworth doesn't prattle anything so the other fellow must be Dr Broll who is very droll. I would believe Brattlesworth would be played by someone very quiet . Broll is of course played by Michael Palin (who does these sort of things for a living) and Brattlesworth would be played by a very quiet John Cleese who would mime being eaten/beaten/mauled by the Leonadis. > (2) I read "snares, toils, and dangers" as "snares, trolls, and dangers" at > first, which might be funnier! I think toils goes better with the general story. Trolls is more of Holy Grail skit. > (5) I believe people adjourn to the "parlour" for cigars and brandy, not the > "sitting room". :) Dear sirs, in the matter of your speech, I believe I have found a slight problem. In most victorian and edwardian novels it would seem that the men go to the smoking room, the ladies go to either the parlour or sitting room. Seeing a man in the parlour was usually a sign of distress. Which of course would be how a skit like this would end.. the lights come on and we see that all the old gentlemen are dressed in drag. However that is a visual joke hard to accomplish in written word :0. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
