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Swanderson!

A garland of quotations LXVII

You guys hear about these books?

Unlike the Royal Navy, the merchant navy, or indeed any other institutions in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the pirate communities were, as already noted, democracies. A hundred years before the French Revolution, the pirate companies were run on lines in which liberty, equality, and brotherhood were the rule rather than the exception.
•David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among Pirates (1995).

All the necessities of...

More terrible punning conundra

My formatting choice last time was incredibly unpopular, so I am now just placing the answer directly under the question, the way R.L. Stine would want.

As always, I have freely plagiarized myself, both my published and unpublished works. Furthermore, I went ahead and “beneath the fold” placed the previous set of conundra, reformatted so you can “enjoy” them this easier-to-read way.

Some of my books have no puns!

Q: What kind of eggs come from ovaries?
A: Over-easy.

Q: What does a pirate from Boston...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(Well, that went well. ANYWAY, to no one’s surprise more than my own, I will NOW be appearing (still in Conn.) at the Branford Book Festival tomorrow (Saturday), May 11, noon–3. My booth is at 1008 Main Street (in front of Bespoke Home), Branford, CT. I will be wearing pants (presumably). Please come by!)

I am inexplicably not mentioned

but will be there irregardful

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Ogden Whitney!

A garland of quotations LXVI

(Well, that went well. ANYWAY, to no one’s surprise more than my own, I will NOW be appearing (still in CT) at the Branford Book Festival this Saturday, May 11, noon–3. My booth is at 1008 Main Street (in front of Bespoke Home), Branford, CT. Pants optional (presumably). Please come by!)

I am inexplicably not mentioned

but will be there irregardful

Such an Evening never passed before—roaring, kissing, embracing, fighting, smashing bottles & glasses against the wall, singing—in short, such a scene ...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me tomorrow, May 4, 12–5, at a Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, drink tea, etc. Details, such as they are, here.)

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Bill Finger!

A garland of quotations LXV

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me this Saturday, May 4, 12–5, at a Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, chat amiably, all that you desire. Details, such as they are, here.)

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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
•Leonard Cohen, “The Old Revolution” (1969).

On his way back to the squad Lei Fang thought to himself, “I’m going to make sure that this red scarf never loses...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me May 4, 12–5, at this Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, gnash teeth, all your faves. Details, such as they are, here.)

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Bill Vigoda!

A garland of quotations LXIV

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me May 4, 12–5, at this Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, a little light juggling. Details, such as they are, here.)

Good for bedtime reading

Children, hush! for father’s resting; he is sitting, tired and sore, with his feet upon the table and his hat upon the floor. He is wearied and exhausted by the labors of the day; he has talked about the tariff since the dawn was ...

Apprentice Academy Knights

(If you live in the Tristate Area so-called, come see me May 4, 12–5, at this Creepy Pop-Up Market in the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton, Conn. I’ll do (free) sketches, sign books, weep copiously, the whole nine yards. Details, such as they are, here.)

As you probably already know, I have a new book coming out this summer with boss illustrations by Cathrin Peterslund—Apprentice Academy: Knights. It is formatted exactly like last year’s Apprentice Academy: Sorcerers, except it is about 60X ...