[UA] The Areas of My Expertise

[John Tynes]

I've enjoyed that audiobook as well. It's delightfully freaky.

-- 
John Scott Tynes
http://www.JohnTynes.com/


On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Ted Prodromou wrote:

> 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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