Honor Harrington - Scat, Spat, Chat or Stat

Amaroq wrote:

cthia wrote:...and by that wholeass High Ridge.

I read through your whole post and then did a double-take upon remembering that this was buried somewhere in the middle. Is that a typo or are you saying he's 100% ass? You may have just invented another curse word.

Nah, Cthia was being politically correct. Arseholes are actually very popular these days...I'm gay, I should know

cthia wrote:Why should it matter whether the GSN was a peer of the RMN's or not?

Legally, it didn't matter; the GSN and RMN were allied navies and the common practice of POW seniority applied. The PRN Admiral actually outranked Honor by POW rules as did Adm Parnell, but both deferred to Honor because they would have been perceived as enemies by most of the POWs.

Styles, OTOH, was showing his Solarian side in his belief that no navy was the equal of his navy and neobarbs and wogs should defer to his obviously superior intellect and experience. Adm Elvis Santino and Pavel Young would have acted in much the same way; in fact Young did claim his cowardice was justified because he outranked Honor in the circumstances that actually obtained -- as opposed to the circumstances he believed obtained.

Amaroq wrote:

cthia wrote:...and by that wholeass High Ridge.

I read through your whole post and then did a double-take upon remembering that this was buried somewhere in the middle. Is that a typo or are you saying he's 100% ass? You may have just invented another curse word.

hanuman wrote:
Nah, Cthia was being politically correct. Arseholes are actually very popular these days...I'm gay, I should know

Actually you are both right. Now I use it to tone down cussing. But I created that word long ago when I was around 15, when you get into verbal fights with your siblings.

My sister: Asshole!
Me: Wholeass!

I remember my siblings laughing their wholeasses off at my first use of it.

As in a complete ass. 100% ass. An asshole is just the round anal orifice. A wholeass is the orifice and buttocks too. Sibling one upmanship is all. It just sort of stuck in my family.

Amaroq wrote:

cthia wrote:...and by that wholeass High Ridge.

I read through your whole post and then did a double-take upon remembering that this was buried somewhere in the middle. Is that a typo or are you saying he's 100% ass? You may have just invented another curse word.

hanuman wrote:
Nah, Cthia was being politically correct. Arseholes are actually very popular these days...I'm gay, I should know

cthia wrote:Actually you are both right. Now I use it to tone down cussing. But I created that word long ago when I was around 15, when you get into verbal fights with your siblings.

My sister: Asshole!
Me: Wholeass!

I remember my siblings laughing their wholeasses off at my first use of it.

As in a complete ass. 100% ass. An asshole is just the round anal orifice. A wholeass is the orifice and buttocks too. Sibling one upmanship is all. It just sort of stuck in my family.

It's like pizza bagels. I thought I was a genius when I invented these. You can't begin to understand my chagrin when I discovered them in the frozen isle. Now I've discovered someone is using my childhood cuss words which "I" coined. I now find I'm not as originally creative as I thought I was

Amaroq wrote:

cthia wrote:...and by that wholeass High Ridge.

I read through your whole post and then did a double-take upon remembering that this was buried somewhere in the middle. Is that a typo or are you saying he's 100% ass? You may have just invented another curse word.

hanuman wrote:
Nah, Cthia was being politically correct. Arseholes are actually very popular these days...I'm gay, I should know

cthia wrote:Actually you are both right. Now I use it to tone down cussing. But I created that word long ago when I was around 15, when you get into verbal fights with your siblings.

My sister: Asshole!
Me: Wholeass!

I remember my siblings laughing their wholeasses off at my first use of it.

As in a complete ass. 100% ass. An asshole is just the round anal orifice. A wholeass is the orifice and buttocks too. Sibling one upmanship is all. It just sort of stuck in my family.

yow wrote:
It's like pizza bagels. I thought I was a genius when I invented these. You can't begin to understand my chagrin when I discovered them in the frozen isle. Now I've discovered someone is using my childhood cuss words which "I" coined. I now find I'm not as originally creative as I thought I was

I yield the 'master of creativity' to you, Yow. Since my use of it was governed by "necessity", which is the mother of invention. I have 5 brothers and 5 sisters. 6 boys 5 girls and with stats like that in a family, you have to be able to verbally defend yourself. We are a very close knit family and it made for loads of laughter.

cthia wrote:

I yield the 'master of creativity' to you, Yow. Since my use of it was governed by "necessity", which is the mother of invention. I have 5 brothers and 5 sisters. 6 boys 5 girls and with stats like that in a family, you have to be able to verbally defend yourself. We are a very close knit family and it made for loads of laughter.

Good Goddess, no wonder you're an addict...it's genetic!!!

hanuman wrote:

cthia wrote:

I yield the 'master of creativity' to you, Yow. Since my use of it was governed by "necessity", which is the mother of invention. I have 5 brothers and 5 sisters. 6 boys 5 girls and with stats like that in a family, you have to be able to verbally defend yourself. We are a very close knit family and it made for loads of laughter.

Good Goddess, no wonder you're an addict...it's genetic!!!

Of course it's genetic. Native American prowess. Teepees were natural viagra. Have you never camped out in a tent, especially on the beach? Grrrrr

Why do you think nature just so has it that little boys discover, much to their embarrassment, natural teepees made under the covers.

But to be totally fair to my father, my mother was smoking hot! As are my sisters and nieces. I grew up hearing "Your mom is so hot!" As a very young kid it always irked me!

Edit:
And they both wanted a large family. My mom says she wanted one girl and many boys that looked like their father. My father wanted one boy and many girls that looked like their mother. They got both.

One of my Romanian friends brought up a very interesting point. She, Mira, said that Honor, in not electing to carry Raoul to term, may have cheated him from some advanced empathic development. Honor and Raoul could have made some sort of unprecedented emotional, physical, empathic connection. Especially in lieu of Honor's and Nimitz' constant communication. Perhaps Raoul could have benefited from the sideband early on. They are energetically discussing it. I wish I could draw them into the forum. An MD's slant on some things would be refreshing. Several MD's, as most of them are, would be rather entertaining. Two are MD's and mothers, and they maintain that some sort of 'psychic' connection was made with their child.

Now for a question that I'm sure fifty-leven foru-mites/misses know except lil ole me.

Who poses for the image of Honor Harrington on the covers of the books? She's a lovely woman.

cthia wrote:Now for a question that I'm sure fifty-leven foru-mites/misses know except lil ole me.

Who poses for the image of Honor Harrington on the covers of the books? She's a lovely woman.

AFAIK, he doesn't use a model, except maybe to get perspective or body positioning right, or maybe to check how a shadow might fall due to an odd light source.

That's just me guessing, though. A quick search didn't bring up anything about whether he uses models or not.