More than Laughter?

[mrs617]

[Poll #785172]

Comments

[inmercyrejoice.livejournal.com]

I don't know the answer here but everytime I see you picture I am taken aback. You look almost exactly like my cousin whose name is Holly! I kid you not.

[mrs617.livejournal.com]

Weird!

re: ha ha

[allthings-well.livejournal.com]

not sure how polls work, so here's my answer.

I think a ha ha is a sort of dry moat thing between adjoining properties to act as a sort of barrier/boundary. From memory, I first read of it in George MacDonald's book "Mary Marston".

Re: ha ha

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

I first encountered the word in Terry Prachett's (not so serious) Discworld series. He was talking about B.S.J's "hoho." A deeper version, you see; I seem to recall it being terminally deep or something...

Re: your "deeper version" :)

[allthings-well.livejournal.com]

Hi Shannon - Pleased to greet you !
Being of a "very great age" and my grandchildren all grown up and away, I haven't ever met this fave author of yours. However, I see he's on our library list, so I'm investigating.........
Hitherto my ventures into Space &c. have been with much joy in the C S Lewis Trilogy - and for fantasy, George MacD's "Phantastes".
btw - I could wish you were nearer with your "B.Sc (hons) in computer science" and expertise!
Blessings, Nan.

Re: your "deeper version" :)

[tenbaset.livejournal.com]

Hi there! Terry Pratchett is more a comic fantasy type thing. See, they know their word (the discworld) is flat and on the back of four giant elephants.. in the earler stories it was more comic fantasy but the later ones sor tof settle down into more of a literatary tone.

Yeah, I picked up one of those after a few years at The University of Auckland. :)