Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
Why are we talking at length about a Xanth novel, now? Even at the remove of "Xanth and OotS are both humorous works," Rich's sense of humor is very different from Piers Anthony's.
If Rich's sense of humour was like Piers Anthony's is, I'd have stopped reading the comic within a few pages. If Anthony's was like Rich's is, I might possibly have read more of his books.

Quote Originally Posted by enq View Post
More importantly though, is Sunny's doot dee dooooo supposed to imitate some very particular sound effect?
I take it to be like a trumpet — using musical scales, C c GGGGG; using do-re-me, DO-do-SOOOOOO. Or using musical intervals, the third note is up a fifth from the first two. TAN-ta-RAAAAA!