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Message no. 1
From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: Mr. Breugel & Mr. Mahler, Freelance Organleggers [was: Tamanous]
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:07:39 -0400 (EDT)
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At 01:15 PM 7/25/99 -0500, Patrick Goodman wrote:
::::Call me a traditionalist, but whenever I want to use organleggers
:::: in a game, I use Misters Breugel and Mahler.
::::
::::(And if anyone here catches the reference, good for you.)

:::Gil the ARM? Niven? Something there sounds remarkably familiar,
:::but it's been *years*....

::Breugel was a painter (16th century, IIRC).
::
::Mahler was a composer whose name means "painter" in English.
::
::Music, once composed, can be played on an organ.
::
::Tamanous sells organs.

:<pounds head repeatedly on desk>

You can stop pounding your head on the desk. Gurth's theory, while
interesting and elaborate, is nowhere close.

Anyone else want to take a stab at this?

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Message no. 2
From: Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject: Mr. Breugel & Mr. Mahler, Freelance Organleggers [was: Tamano us]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, David Cordy wrote:

> > Anyone else want to take a stab at this?
> >
> Are they the two from Gaiman's 'Neverwhere'? If not, what were their names?

No, the baddies from 'Neverwhere' were messrs Croup and Vandermar.

Marc
Message no. 3
From: Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject: Mr. Breugel & Mr. Mahler, Freelance Organleggers [was: Tamano us]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 17:46:24 +0100
In article <268AA7F4E99AD21193B500902728951F21B8DB@********.brio.c
om>, David Cordy <DCordy@****.com> writes
>> You can stop pounding your head on the desk. Gurth's theory, while
>> interesting and elaborate, is nowhere close.
>>
>> Anyone else want to take a stab at this?
>>
>Are they the two from Gaiman's 'Neverwhere'? If not, what were their names?

Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar were the assassins from "Neverwhere".

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Paul J. Adam
Message no. 4
From: Number Ten Ox number_10_ox@**********.com
Subject: Mr. Breugel & Mr. Mahler, Freelance Organleggers [was: Tamano us]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
They're the two thungs from "Max Headroom", and I claim my hot date with
Theora Jones. :)

==--Number 10 Ox.
"It's a big yellow rubber ducky."
"Is it rigger-driven?"




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