LNH/Meta: About those sub-basements

Martin Phipps martinphipps2 at yahoo.com
Wed May 2 22:34:16 PDT 2012


On 5月3日, 下午1時28分, Martin Phipps <martinphip... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 5月3日, 下午1時20分, Martin Phipps <martinphip... at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On 5月3日, 上午11時10分, Arthur Spitzer <arspit... at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > > On 5/2/12 7:52 PM, Adrian J. McClure wrote:
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> > > > Where did the idea that the LNHQsub-basementsgo infinitely deep and
> > > > are full of Weird Stuff come from? That's always been one of my
> > > > favorite LNH tropes. I've read about the first year's worth of LNH
> > > > stories now and they haven't broached that issue yet.
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> > > Doing a googles group search (which is a horrible search engine -- I
> > > know) the Saint's Case of the Clueless Mystery seems to be the oldest
> > > mention... although it's possible that Hubert came up with the idea in
> > > Tales of the LNH..
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> > Well, Hubert had Panta sleeping in "the" basement so we didn't havesubbasementsat the time and I know I didn't have the idea.  I
> > suspect it was probably Drizzt but I can't say what story.
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> Confirmed!  I found this posted in September, 1994: "[T]here is also a
> subbasement with HoloDecStations and asub-subbasement which, if nothing else, contains Continuity Champ's
> old stuff."

I found the same quote from June, 1993.  Then in September, 1993 Zen
referred to a "sub-sub-sub-basement" in Insanity Watch #1.  That mayu
have been the first mention of a sub-sub-sub-basement.

Martin


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