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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by MaxxQ   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:40 am

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roseandheather wrote:
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Shirley Temple

Billie Holiday

Janis Joplin

I didn't like her much, but I also have to add Whitney Houston.

Patti LaBelle (though she's still alive)

Donna Summer

Judy Garland


...are you sure you don't mean Shirley Bassey? :mrgreen:


Her too, but Shirley Temple still qualifies. Her voice in her movies may not have been on a par with everyone else as far as quality, but you can't deny that her voice is still known after all these decades.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 4:38 am

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MaxxQ wrote:
MaxxQ wrote:
Shirley Temple

Billie Holiday

Janis Joplin

I didn't like her much, but I also have to add Whitney Houston.

Patti LaBelle (though she's still alive)

Donna Summer

Judy Garland

roseandheather wrote:
...are you sure you don't mean Shirley Bassey? :mrgreen:


Her too, but Shirley Temple still qualifies. Her voice in her movies may not have been on a par with everyone else as far as quality, but you can't deny that her voice is still known after all these decades.

*Shirley Temple qualifies? Qualifies? As in qualify?
I'll have you miscreants know, that Shirley Temple not only qualifies, but...she's right there near the top...tap dancing into my heart...while she's a singin.'

Add Etta James.
Olivia Newton John.

And there are Rumours that we should add Stevie Nicks. Sara told me about it in my Dreams.

Get the funny? It was...they had songs...they...well anyway.

*I almost picked one of Shirley Temple's lines as my signature.

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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Hutch   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:26 am

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roseandheather wrote:(This type of gag also shows up in the 1632/Ring of Fire series, with which I have recently become absolutely, positively obsessed and which is also written (mostly) by Eric Flint. And it is just as funny there as it is here.)


Just as an aside, I am also a fan of the RoF series(just re-read the E-ARC for 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies and am working on 1636: Seas of Fortune now). The forum dedicated here to those books (Assisti Shards Forum) is pretty much moribund (compared to here), but if you want to start a thread or three like you have here, I'll see about contributing.... 8-)

Now for the daily Honorverse one-liner...I hope it is not a copy, but I'm not going back through 90+ pages...

"So, our is wandering boy returns, I see," Eloise Pritchart murmured, an hour later, as Victor Cachat, a troll-like man who looked suspiciously like the officially deceased Anton Zilwicki, and a sandy-haired, hazel-eyed man were escorted into the Octagon briefing room. "Welcome home, Officer Cachat. We'd been wondering why you hadn't written."


and one a bit later (both Quotes from Mission of Honor) as Eloise puts into words what has been going on:

"It makes sense, doesn't it?" she pressed. "They played us—me—by having Arnold doctor the diplomatic correspondence. Hell, they may've had someone at the other end doing the same thing for High Ridge! No one's seen hide nor hair of Descroix ever since the wheels came off, now have they? And then, when we figured out what Arnold had done, they played Elizabeth by convincing her we'd killed Webster and tried to kill her niece exactly the same way the Legislaturalists killed her father and Saint-Just tried to kill her! God only knows how many millions of civilians and spacers—ours and the Manties'—these . . . people have gotten killed over the past eighty T-years or so, and Elizabeth—and I—both walked straight into it when it was our turn!"
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:21 am

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The large nest of Bright Water Clan's current senior memory singer stood before him, and it would not be necessary for him to use the attention chime to announce his arrival.

Attention chime? Ok, I'm stuck here. Is this a mechanical contrivance? But why can't they use their mind sense to announce arrival. Even to the cats that are far away they can relay the mind glows.

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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Amaroq   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:00 am

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roseandheather wrote:
Amaroq wrote:A little gift for rose:

She'd discovered long since that people who looked like warriors too often proved to be Elvis Santinos or Pavel Youngs, while the most outwardly unprepossessing people frequently turned out to have nerves of steel.

Michelle musing about Admiral Khumalo in SFtS.


CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS QUOTE THOUGH

CAN WE TALK ABOUT MY BABY HERE

HE'S FLIPPED EVERYONE'S PERCEPTION OF HIM ON HIS HEAD AND HE DID IT JUST BY DOING THE RIGHT THING

I LOVE THE RMN BUT BY GOD IN THIS CASE EVERY SINGLE OFFICER WHO UNDERESTIMATED THIS MAN IS A GODDAMN MORON

*cough*

That is to say, everyone who ever underestimated Augustus Khumalo should feel very very bad about it for a very long time.


So, I gather that you liked it?
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Amaroq   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:08 am

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cthia wrote:Changer of Worlds
The large nest of Bright Water Clan's current senior memory singer stood before him, and it would not be necessary for him to use the attention chime to announce his arrival.

Attention chime? Ok, I'm stuck here. Is this a mechanical contrivance? But why can't they use their mind sense to announce arrival. Even to the cats that are far away they can relay the mind glows.


I get the sense that it's more like a set of wind chimes. Seeker of Dreams used them when he wanted to speak to Sings Truly in What Price Dreams?:

He stopped there once more and reached out with one true-hand to strike respectfully at the hollow wooden tube hanging beside the nest entrance. Generations of other claws had gouged the tube, and countless impacts between it and the tree bole had worn a deep depression through the picket wood's tough bark, but the resonating musical note as it flew back against the tree was sufficient for sharp ears to hear.


Perhaps this is what is being referenced.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by SWM   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 12:14 pm

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cthia wrote:Changer of Worlds
The large nest of Bright Water Clan's current senior memory singer stood before him, and it would not be necessary for him to use the attention chime to announce his arrival.

Attention chime? Ok, I'm stuck here. Is this a mechanical contrivance? But why can't they use their mind sense to announce arrival. Even to the cats that are far away they can relay the mind glows.

I'm guessing that, out of politeness, a treecat won't intrude on the mind of a memory singer in the privacy of her own home.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Amaroq   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 1:30 pm

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Some poignant prose from HAE:

Yet there was no other way. She'd gotten another eight hundred people off Wayfarer, reducing the death toll to just over a thousand. One thousand men and women—and two treecats—who would die to save four thousand others. By any measure, that had to be a worthwhile bargain, but, oh, how it hurt.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by roseandheather   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:56 pm

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Amaroq wrote:
roseandheather wrote:
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS QUOTE THOUGH

CAN WE TALK ABOUT MY BABY HERE

HE'S FLIPPED EVERYONE'S PERCEPTION OF HIM ON HIS HEAD AND HE DID IT JUST BY DOING THE RIGHT THING

I LOVE THE RMN BUT BY GOD IN THIS CASE EVERY SINGLE OFFICER WHO UNDERESTIMATED THIS MAN IS A GODDAMN MORON

*cough*

That is to say, everyone who ever underestimated Augustus Khumalo should feel very very bad about it for a very long time.


So, I gather that you liked it?


Hello, you've reached roseandheather at the Honorverse boards. She is currently in a state of Khumalo-induced catatonic glee and can't make it to the phone right now, but if you'll leave your name, number, and a brief message, she'll get back to you as soon as she can. Thanks a lot! Bye.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Amaroq   » Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:49 pm

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"We're home, System Command. It took us awhile, but we're home."


I trust that this one requires no further explanation.
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