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Strupid (?) questyion about grant

 
 
Dead Megatron
20:02 / 22.12.05
I just want to know if the "grant" dude that is one of Barbelith moderator is actually Grant Morrison or just a "normal" grant. This is very probably quite a stupid question that I have been trying to get around somehow, but waht the hell I don`t mind looking stupid that much, duh...
 
 
Ganesh
20:07 / 22.12.05
He's a "normal" Grant. But he's special to us.

You could've PMed him, y'know.
 
 
Dead Megatron
20:49 / 22.12.05
I could? Oh, yeah, I could...

I swear to God I`m not feeling stupid now
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:54 / 22.12.05
Chill, dude. Our grant is also very talented and has a lovely wife, so an easy mistake to make. And he earns a crust with his inky quill too.
 
 
Ganesh
21:00 / 22.12.05
But his real name's not George.
 
 
TeN
21:12 / 22.12.05
I think this question is answered in the wiki, actually
 
 
iamus
21:37 / 22.12.05
But his real name's not George.

It's Gilbert.

They're a double act.
 
 
w1rebaby
22:03 / 22.12.05
He's much better than that Morrison bloke. He's got a proper job, for a start.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:09 / 22.12.05
And George would kill to have giant iguanas in his backyard.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:38 / 22.12.05
Dude... anyone can be Spartacus Hughes.

A lot of people just have other stuff to do. Or can't be arsed.
 
 
Ganesh
22:43 / 22.12.05
Can iguanas play swingball?
 
 
Mourne Kransky
22:45 / 22.12.05
If you string 'em up to a pole and hit 'em hard with a bat, they can.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:59 / 22.12.05
You've clearly never really done that.

If you had, you'd know their prehensile tails, combined with their instinct for self-preservation, make tangling a very real possibility.

And not something you can get a refund on the swingball set for, either. Try that one and you'll be surprised at the shop staff's ability to tell "unused" from "horribly soiled". At a glance, they can do it. At a fucking glance.
 
 
grant
23:40 / 22.12.05
I really *should* do something with my name, shouldn't I.

My last name is Balfour, like the former PM (he of the Declaration) and the high school ring company.

Gilbert, George and I are barely on speaking terms after the incident with the copper urn filled with what I thought was flat Coca-Cola.

At the time I joined what was then the Nexus, I was already active in other corners of the web (selling CDs and whatnot) as "grant," so I just used the name here. Was sort of surprised it was open, but what the hey.

And now Hart and Muir have put down their guitars in the family room and are hollering that Goodeve is on a Northern Exposure rerun. Cool. I love it when we all get to hang out.
 
 
lekvar
23:43 / 22.12.05
More stupid questions about grant:

1) When he was brokering the Camp David Accord, did he really make Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin "seal it with a kiss?"

2) When he "un-rings a bell," do angels really lose their wings?

3) Despite his inevitable win, did he fear for his life when he entered into the 2003 World Champion Cage Fight?
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
09:39 / 23.12.05
and:

4) did he really fund me and countless others through university in the halcyon days of free higher education for all? Oh, a generous soul is he.
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:21 / 23.12.05
Let's not forget that grant's real life exploits were, in fact, the inspiration for the King Mob character in "The Invisibles".

Well, that's what the leprechauns tell me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:43 / 23.12.05
Did he start the fire? I thought for a while it was Billy Joel, but he maintains otherwise.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
11:51 / 23.12.05
Was that a case of sleeping quarters arson? Or was that someone more Antipodean? Anyhow, I always wondered how you could sleep when the bed was burning was a bit of a silly question.

As for grant (small g) - isn't he also our local fahmily man from Ostenders (the gritty populist story of everyday Belgian folk gathered around the environs of Place Roi Albert*)


*this should probably be in Flemish too, but my old Dutch is far worse than Phil Mitchell's bark or Grant Mitchell's bite.
 
 
grant
14:14 / 23.12.05
lekvar: 1) When he was brokering the Camp David Accord, did he really make Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin "seal it with a kiss?"

They did that on their own. I'm still rather upset, since it set back the cause of legalizing MDMA by years. I was so close to victory on that one... they really were the perfect test case.


2) When he "un-rings a bell," do angels really lose their wings?

No one has ever *proved* that.


3) Despite his inevitable win, did he fear for his life when he entered into the 2003 World Champion Cage Fight?


No, not really. I knew Sim Huk Long's trainer never took en savate seriously as a combat art, so I just got in close and used a couple standard throws. I did get nervous when Sim's wife started throwing the bottles, though.

Tango-Mango 4) did he really fund me and countless others through university in the halcyon days of free higher education for all? Oh, a generous soul is he.

Yeah, well, after taking Alan Greenspan's cat hostage, what was I supposed to do? I couldn't keep the money, or they'd just track me down. I had to spread it out to as many people as possible -- a million straws in a trillion dollar haystack.


Evil Scientist -Let's not forget that grant's real life exploits were, in fact, the inspiration for the King Mob character in "The Invisibles".

Well, that's what the leprechauns tell me.



Actually, that was all wildly exaggerated. I never got past the perimeter of Area 51, and when I killed Diana's moonchild, it was really just an ordinary-looking baby (except for the silver fur).

Stoatie -
Did he start the fire? I thought for a while it was Billy Joel, but he maintains otherwise.


Yes, with WOOD, to MAKE TEA LIKE A MAN.

As for grant (small g) - isn't he also our local fahmily man from Ostenders (the gritty populist story of everyday Belgian folk gathered around the environs of Place Roi Albert*)

No, that's yet another one -- Grant van Looy, works in a chocolate factory, nearly married the Algerian escort from the Antwerp Schipperskwartier until it turned out to be an Interpol sting operation because they thought he was really ferrying narcotics across the Channel for Bosco Lefebvre and the Vincke Brothers. I can understand the mistake, though. Those were confusing times.
 
 
akira
15:37 / 24.12.05
Claire Scully said that it was you who stole my blinking light sunglasses from my draw in primary school. Is that true? And if so can I have them back please.
 
 
grant
14:45 / 29.12.05
Claire Scully is a dirty liar who always wanted those glasses for herself, so maybe you should ask her again.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
15:44 / 29.12.05
Where were you on November 22nd 1963?
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:15 / 29.12.05
The day Aldous Huxley died...
 
 
sleazenation
17:09 / 29.12.05
I dunno about 22nd, but the next day he was surely watrching the debut of the first episode of Dr Who...
 
 
grant
17:17 / 29.12.05
I spent most of the autumn and winter of 1963 inside a 6-by-12 bubble of air near the bottom edge of a large iceberg floating off what was then the Northwest Territories.

Lessons for that trip:

1. Never trust a drunken salmon fisherman, however cuddly the beard makes him look.

2. The flesh of the harp seal is oily and gamey, but quite nutritious, and once dried, the bones make passable fuel for a small cooking fire.
 
 
iamus
00:44 / 30.12.05
I thought we had something special and then I see this.


How many have there been, grant? How many?
 
 
alas
02:21 / 30.12.05
grants.gov....! How cool that you now have your own government, grant.

Can I apply for my own grant?
 
 
grant
18:02 / 03.01.06
Yes. I'm a public, not-for-profit grant, though, not a federal one.
 
 
sleazenation
18:15 / 03.01.06
NGO grant comes with gasmask.
 
 
Dead Megatron
19:14 / 03.01.06
gee, who knew one single stupid question would yield so much meaningless conversation...

and no type-os this time
 
  
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