Once again re-reading (or re-listening, actually) to Lords and Ladies.
At one point Nanny Ogg and Casanunda emerge from a fireplace in a restaurant that was vandalized by elves. The narration is:
"The place looked as though it had been visited by Genghiz Cohen.*"
And the footnote reads something like:
*Hence the term 'wholesale destruction.'
I've always wondered about what he meant here (there's no explanation of it on Lspace). The only conclusion that I can come to is that PTerry is making a Jewish joke here, given that Jewish merchants are often associated with the wholesaling business.
Does this make sense or do you see another interpretation? I can't see why he would choose to be literal in this instance when most of his footnotes are supposed to be puns on in-jokes or some kind.
J-I-B
At one point Nanny Ogg and Casanunda emerge from a fireplace in a restaurant that was vandalized by elves. The narration is:
"The place looked as though it had been visited by Genghiz Cohen.*"
And the footnote reads something like:
*Hence the term 'wholesale destruction.'
I've always wondered about what he meant here (there's no explanation of it on Lspace). The only conclusion that I can come to is that PTerry is making a Jewish joke here, given that Jewish merchants are often associated with the wholesaling business.
Does this make sense or do you see another interpretation? I can't see why he would choose to be literal in this instance when most of his footnotes are supposed to be puns on in-jokes or some kind.
J-I-B
