[UA] The Areas of My Expertise

Ted Prodromou merovingianheir at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 29 09:54:44 PDT 2007


Oh man, it's totally UA-able.  The divinations of
insurance adjustors?  Secret hobo wars?  Boy howdy.

You could run a UA game based solely on the works of
that book, if you could get four or five John Hodgman
fans together.

--- James Knevitt <jknevitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently, I listended to an audiobook version of
> John Hodgman's "The
> Areas of My Expertise", and boy, if that thing
> doesn't read like a UA
> primer, I don't know what would.
> 
> I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a wierd angle
> to the US (or
> anyone looking for 700 hobo names, which work
> equally as well for
> dukes of any kind).
> 
> Has anyone else picked this up and would like to
> testify to its UAbility?
> 
> -- 
> James Knevitt
> jknevitt at gmail.com
> 
> "The problem with defending the purity of the
> English language is that
> English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We
> don't just borrow
> words; on occasion, English has pursued other
> languages down alleyways
> to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for
> new vocabulary."
>    --James Nicoll
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