On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 9:20:37 PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/14/2023 6:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

"Do not meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are crunchy and good
with ketchup."

That sounds familiar. Book ?

Suzanne McMinn has been credited with that quote.
So has Patricia C. Wrede, somewhere in her Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

It is clearly inspired by Tolkien's "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger".

John Savard

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In article <06d35694-7fba-42c9-87f6-f92cfb199ef8n@googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 9:20:37?PM UTC-6, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/14/2023 6:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

"Do not meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."

That sounds familiar. Book ?

Suzanne McMinn has been credited with that quote.
So has Patricia C. Wrede, somewhere in her Enchanted Forest Chronicles.

That sentence (even 3 word segments of it) is not present in the
_Enchanted Forest Chronicles_.

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. —-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 4:35:23 PM UTC-4, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Side Quested: Dragons Enjoy Boring People
https://sidequested.com/page/93/

They are apparently delicious.

Apparently Somerset Maugham was a dragon.

Somewhere he wrote, approximately:

"There is a great deal of entertainment to be had in talking to boring people"


William Hyde

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On Friday, 14 July 2023 at 22:47:47 UTC+1, Tony Nance wrote:

On Friday, July 14, 2023 at 5:35:38 PM UTC-4, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <u8sbi5$49nu$2...@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Side Quested: Dragons Enjoy Boring People
https://sidequested.com/page/93/

They are apparently delicious.

Lynn

I read the subject line with "boring" as a verb, and it didn't sound
like typical dragon behavior..

Yes! But which verb..."boring" as in they like to behave in such
a way as to make humans bored? or "boring" as in "drill holes
through"?

Tony, who interpreted the former

"Boring: see Civil engineers"

I was going to say unicorns, but that's "gore".
"verb(tr) (of an animal, such as a bull) to pierce or
stab (a person or another animal) with a horn or tusk.
C16: probably from Old English 'gar', spear."

It's complicated, isn't it?

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Robert Carnegie wrote:

On Friday, 14 July 2023 at 22:47:47 UTC+1, Tony Nance wrote:

Yes! But which verb..."boring" as in they like to behave in such
a way as to make humans bored? or "boring" as in "drill holes
through"?

"Boring: see Civil engineers"

I was going to say unicorns, but that's "gore".
"verb(tr) (of an animal, such as a bull) to pierce or
stab (a person or another animal) with a horn or tusk.
C16: probably from Old English 'gar', spear."

It's complicated, isn't it?

The horn is helical, how much of a twist of the head do we need before we can call it "drilling"?

I'm surprised to find in the dictionary that there is a mollusk called a drill, which makes holes in oyster shells to get to the meat. No, it doesn't use the spiral part of its shell, made of successively larger living chambers, but a radula, like a
tongue with teeth in it that it uses like sandpaper.

--
-Jack

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On Friday, July 21, 2023 at 7:56:06 AM UTC+10, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:46:57 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

On 7/14/2023 8:20 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 7/14/2023 6:51 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 7/14/2023 1:35 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Side Quested: Dragons Enjoy Boring People
https://sidequested.com/page/93/

They are apparently delicious.

"Do not meddle in the affairs of DRAGONS for you are crunchy and good >>> with ketchup."

That sounds familiar. Book ?

A needlepoint my mother did when I was a child. Also a wall plaque I have. My immediate response was the Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings

parody but I found this one which might be of interest (note the 1989
Usenet reference)

https://9to5science.com/origins-of-quote-quot-do-not-meddle-in-the-affairs-of-dragons-for-you-are-crunchy-and-taste-good-with-ketchup-quot

I think I heard it as "... with mustard" from my sister in the 80s so it had spread then

It wouldn't surprise me if it was in a cartoon in Dragon which the search function wouldn't find.
I think I have the dragon archives available somewhere

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