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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:12 pm

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When Admiral Harrington is making a presentation before the advances tactics classes and wants to really emphasize one of her points on the screen, what does she use?



a GRASERpointer!
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:57 pm

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The Honorable Reginald Houseman likes to plat SimStar in his spare time. He plays against himself, and cheats, but still looses. He keeps building up the economy and making the aristocracy and shipping cartels rich, then gets his rich, soft, home starsystem invaded by every little nearby neobarb culture.

One game went so badly that after his home system had been invaded, pillaged and looted over 30 times, his scrabbled together interim government was over thrown by a high school debate team from his own home planet!

The simulated populace became so upset that it became the first, and so far only instance of the game that tried to assassinate the person playing it!

{Mike <eyes too bright>}
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:16 am

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Chief, "Hey Mange did you see this from Rocket Scientist in the Safehold forum?"

As "Perambulates Rapidly In The General Direction Of Vegetables With A Sickle Shaped Cross Section" has implied elsewhere, the next battle will be as much logistics as tactics. I agree that tactically, it does not make sense for Eastshare to venture far to the west in force to interfere with supply lines, but if the northern armies are already leaning heavily on what supply chain they have left as PRITGDOVWASSCS has indicated, then even small efforts here will have big effects later.


Mange, <An insult to the creator of the People, runsforcelery, there may be riots in the jungles of Sphinx at this infidel's blasphemy!>

"Chill, 'cat!, it was just a humorous thought while he was masticating dessicated dead deer dermis at the keyboard."

<Hey Rocket Scientist,> Image

"Temper temper Mange."

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"Ah well enough sowing hate and discontent here, back to putting lipstick on a pig of a tech story on Baen's Bar."

<So, what's new with your sowing hate and discontent?>

Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

Poker & Mange
CPO Poker Mind Image and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.

"Better to be hung for a hexapuma than a housecat," Com. Pang Yau-pau, ART.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:36 pm

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pokermind wrote:Chief, "Hey Mange did you see this from Rocket Scientist?"

As "Perambulates Rapidly In The General Direction Of Vegetables With A Sickle Shaped Cross Section" has implied elsewhere, the next battle will be as much logistics as tactics. I agree that tactically, it does not make sense for Eastshare to venture far to the west in force to interfere with supply lines, but if the northern armies are already leaning heavily on what supply chain they have left as PRITGDOVWASSCS has indicated, then even small efforts here will have big effects later.


Mange, <An insult to the creator of the People, runsforcelery, there may be riots in the jungles of Sphinx at this infidel's blasphemy!>

"Chill, 'cat!, it was just a humorous thought while he was masticating dessicated dead deer dermis at the keyboard."

<Hey Rocket Scientist,> Image

"Temper temper Mange."

Image

"Ah well enough sowing hate and discontent here, back to putting lipstick on a pig of a tech story on Baen's Bar."

<So, what's new with your sowing hate and discontent?>

Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

Poker & Mange


Ok! OK! You win Mange! I promise to never again expand in vain the name of the creator of all tree cats! Please spare my while there are still large enough parts of my epidermis for the Pasqualites to find and stitch together back into something resembling a human being.

Oh, and what is that over there in what used to be my back pocket? Some fresh celery stalks? Would you like to share some with me?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:37 pm

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rocket_scientist wrote:
Ok! OK! You win Mange! I promise to never again expand in vain the name of the creator of all tree cats! Please spare my while there are still large enough parts of my epidermis for the Pasqualites to find and stitch together back into something resembling a human being.

Oh, and what is that over there in what used to be my back pocket? Some fresh celery stalks? Would you like to share some with me?


Image

<Somebody said Celery.> Art by DeepChrome

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"Better to be hung for a hexapuma than a housecat," Com. Pang Yau-pau, ART.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:02 pm

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Mange, <You let us get on page two again!>

Chief, "Been busy on Baen's Bar. So mange what was in that big box you got from Sphinx."

Mange, <Frozen burrow-runner and cluster-stalk for the Chinaman. Now I can have burrow-runner and cluster-stalk egg rolls, a taste of home. Not that I'm getting tired of shrimp and cluster-stalk egg-rolls."

"You're getting a tummy roll of your own, and soon you'll resemble the fat cats of cover art:"

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<Insensitive, lazy, two-leg letting Honorverse Humor or lack thereof go to page two of the Honorverse forum!>

Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

Poker & Mange
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"Better to be hung for a hexapuma than a housecat," Com. Pang Yau-pau, ART.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by kenl511   » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:05 am

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Theme of the SL Bureacrats:

Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Skip to m'lou my darling.

Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Skip to m'lou my darling.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Thu Oct 25, 2012 10:09 pm

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Mange, <You have been gone a while. So what's going on outside the Honerverse?>

Chief, "I've been working on railroad drawings in the 1632verse, called Assitti Shards here on David's site. Want to see? Go here:

http://pokermind.deviantart.com/

<Nice, and all I thought you could draw was flies.>


Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

"Speaking of flies, our good friend Namelessfly got hit with the Ban Hammer in the latest flame war in Free Range Topics... I eulogized him in the RIP Namelessfly thread thus:"

pokermind wrote:Hi all,

What happens when a topic gets too heated? it gets locked. What happens when you get too many warnings for violating the rules?

Duckk wrote:
Ok, that's it, topic over. And namelessfly, you earned yourself a ban for flaming.


Last entry http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3487&start=30

Some times in heated discussions we forget the rules, we flame, we use harsh language (not PG), and get personal with other posters. I'll miss the Fly and hope the ban is temporary not permanent. While Fly's sins aginst the rules were the worst we all share some blame, and I include myself. This is my first year here, and the fourth topic I've seen locked, this is the first non spammer bot I've seen hit with the Mighty Duckk's Ban Hammer, but I've seen him warn Fly on numerous occasions to cool it or get baned.

Let this be a warning, keep it civil.

This was Namelessfly's last PM to me I'll bleep the non PG stuff, he deserves an epitaph IMHO.

namelessfly wrote:I certainly cut loose yesterday. There is nothing that makes my blood boil more than European arrogance, conceit and pseudosophistication. They remind me of the Solarian League. By any rational standards [General religious reference deleted] are barbarians. The US has been fighting a loosing battle trying to prevent Islamic fundamentalists from getting nukes only to be betrayed by our alleged allies.

We have plenty of gas if Obama and his [expletive deleted] don't screw it up. This would be an opportunity to become isolationist. We should withdraw from Nato, cancel f-35 sales and declare open season on Europeans. I am almost angry enough to not care that Israel will be the first to be nuked then invaded. It will be interesting to see the reaction of all the American Jews who put Obama in office.

Last night's debate was pathetic. Romney's foreign policy is just as insane as Obama's. He is beating the drum for the Arab Spring too. With the exception of Ron and Rand Paul who are isolationists, the only prominent politician to oppose betraying our allies to bring Islamofascists to power was Gov Palin. I wish I knew what took the wind out of her sails. Aside from foreign policy, she has the best record on fiscal and energy policy. [description of her feminine attributes redacted.]

Of course miracles can happen. If RINO Romney wins the election then were to get assassinated, the election of the President gets real interesting.


My answer was:


"Hi Namelessfly,

I can only shake my head, Politicians of both parties have been buying votes with our tax money, then started borrowing money to give away more. They have been playing musical chairs with the debt so long that soon the music will stop and the current (who ever wins) administration will have a financial crisis that will make the Great Depression seem a cakewalk. You watch the big boys won't get hurt, but us little people will get crucified. As Will Rodgers said during the Depression, "The United States has the Best Government money can Buy. Unfortunately we're all Poor Folk." I fear for our country.

Poker

PS. As to the Europeans its like the old farmer joke, "You can't teach a pig sense. It frustrates you and, annoys the pig." Liked the joke in Honorverse Humor or lack thereof:

kenl511 wrote:Theme of the SL Bureacrats:

Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Pigs at the trough, what'll we do?
Skip to m'lou my darling.

Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Keep the slop flowing, that's what we'll do.
Skip to m'lou my darling.



Could be Obama's theme song!"


Poker


<That is terrible, what did the poor Fly do to cause the Duckk to use his flyswatter?>

"Got too passionate in the latest political flame war on the Middle East, and frankly use inappropriate non PG language I warned the other posters we might get this from the Duckk as things got out of hand:"

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<Didn't the Duckk warn him?>

"The Duckk warned him several times in previous flame wars, but in this case he locked the thread and hit poor Fly with his mighty Ban Hammer."

<I'll miss the Fly's comments here. Is the banning permanent?>

"Don't know. Perhaps if enough of the Fly's friends comment in the thread http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3520 the Duckk may relent."

<I hope so who else can we kid about wanting shower scenes. And just think Chief you just became the Honorverse's semiofficial Dirty Old Man! Beware of the might Duckk's flyswatter!>

Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

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"Better to be hung for a hexapuma than a housecat," Com. Pang Yau-pau, ART.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by yannosh   » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:46 pm

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ba-da-dum-tish a brand new entry into the ethos of truly awful and groan worthy jokes...

What do you get when you shave a treecat?




Dead!
ba-da-dum-tish
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Ceterum censeo Foedam solariam delendam esse.

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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by White Tallon   » Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:11 am

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Ok... my first try at an Honorverse joke!


What did the Nimitz sign when he saw all the Detwilers sitting at the conference table?

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