J The furriners have from the beginning used this for the sound we designate
with Y, Englishers generally take it to indicate the compound (dz) sound.
However that may be, we have it, and it vies with D for initialling the greatest
number of fans. J, The J, and Forry the J are all ekenames of Forrest J
Ackerman, tho he found out one day that J isn't his legal middle initial.
JAZZY-BELLE (DAG) Automobile owned by Dean A Grennell. V and VI were
Oldsmobile 88s (a powder-blue 1952 and a black-and-white 1955
model, respectively); both were ridden in by an incredible variety of fans and
pros over the years. A small piece of seat-cover from JB V rests in the Willis
Museum of Fantiquities.
JUFFUS Nickname for Jack F Speer, originating when he wrote the initials j'f's.
JUST LIKE A DAUGHERTY PROJECT EXCEPT THAT IT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN (Laney)
The ultimate
in fannish accomplishment. South Gate all over again. Unendurable pleasure
indefinitely prolonged. Laney once, growing lyrical in praise of the one-shot
session, lauded it with this phrase. Walter A Daugherty was a LASFan noted for
fine ideas that came to nothing.
JUSTIFICATION The process of putting even right-hand edges on typewritten
matter in a fanzine. The second paragraph below is justified, at
least in this sense. Iconoclasts like Laney and puristical users of real
printing like Bill Danner object to the idea on the ground that typewriter
typeface just doesn't look like letterpress and trying to use it to imitate the
latter is Vulgar Ostentation.
The usual method is to write up what you want to say, in the spacing you
plan to use -- i.e. make a dummy copy -- and, reaching the end of a line,////
fill in the space between the end of the written line and the edge of your///
printing area with some mark that won't be mistaken for text. This indicates
how many spaces you must skip, when cutting the stencil, to get even right-//
hand margins. But it's a lot of work and adds little to the appearance of a/
magazine as compared to other factors such as good stencil-cutting and even//
inking, so many fans refuse to fool with it.
Ecco la:
The usual method is to write up what you want to say, in the spacing you
plan to use -- i.e. make a dummy copy -- and, reaching the end of a line,
fill in the space between the end of the written line and the edge of your
printing area with some mark that won't be mistaken for text. This indicates
how many spaces you must skip, when cutting the stencil, to get even right-
hand margins. But it's a lot of work and adds little to the appearance of a
magazine as compared to other factors such as good stencil-cutting and even
inking, so many fans refuse to fool with it.
JVPC The Jules Verne Prize Club, RAPalmer chairman. One of the oldest award
groups in fandom, it offered cups for the three best stories of the year
in the early 30s.
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K Back in 1944 Speer could brush aside K as initialling no important fan
words -- "leave one letter of the alphabet temporarily unsullied by
stfandom", was the way he put it. But in this harsh world fifteen years later
nothing's sacred any more.
KABU Pename of Juanita Coulson for some of her art work in the Share sisters'
fanzines ("kabu" is Japanese for "share"). Mostly fubsy wenches, these.
KEHLI Lee Hoffman's horse, which sparked her first retirement from fandom.
KHAMSIN (Joan Carr) To contrast with various ghods preached by other fans,
JoCa acted as prophet to this devil. "You can get to heaven with any
old ghod", she declared, "but you can only go to one devil!"
KILLDOZER A possessed (by an electronic intelligence) bulldozer in Ted
Sturgeon's novelette of this name; sometimes used as synonymous
with the runaway intelligent machine.
KLAATU BORADA NIKTO The three little words that saved the world. In "The Day
The Earth Stood Still" they prevented Gort, the atomic
robot, from devastating the planet.
KTEIC MAGAZINE (Rotsler) A letter-substitute patterned after the WO3W and
various chain letters. First a multi-carboned read-and-pass-
on job, later mimeoed. Burbee coined the expression "short-shot" to define it
and separate it from the one-shot, but the imitations it provoked were more
usually called letter-substitutes, and were circulated by people whose
correspondence ran away from them. Kteic was thought a hoax by many -- it was
sent to a very limited and select group, Rotsler explains -- and the cryptic
comments of the Kteic Society (:all the people who received KM; "generally the
BNFs and the more interesting fans:", says WR) built this mystification up.
The title is from the greek kteis, the female equivalent of phallus.
KTP (Speer) Kaj tiel plu; Esperanto and so forth, equivalent to latin etc
and Deutsche usw.
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