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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by beaker   » Fri Jul 05, 2013 7:18 pm

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Mange, Why does Nimitz want to visit Japan?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:02 am

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beaker wrote:Mange, Why does Nimitz want to visit Japan?


Mange. <I don't know. Perhaps he knows of Admiral Bull Halsey who said during WW 2 "After this war the only place where the Japanese language will be spoken is in hell," and wants to revisit Dances on Clouds' and his vacation place?>

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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by beaker   » Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:49 pm

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He heard there were thousands of celery men. :lol:



pokermind wrote:
beaker wrote:Mange, Why does Nimitz want to visit Japan?


Mange. <I don't know. Perhaps he knows of Admiral Bull Halsey who said during WW 2 "After this war the only place where the Japanese language will be spoken is in hell," and wants to revisit Dances on Clouds' and his vacation place?>

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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Tue Jul 09, 2013 6:57 am

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beaker wrote:Mange, Why does Nimitz want to visit Japan?

<SNIP Mange's smart Alick reply>

He heard there were thousands of celery men. :lol:


Chief, "This is a good pun, but like all puns some of our non English speaker fans might not get it. Japan has thousands of minor executives called Salary Men, close to the sound of Celery Men in in spoken English. :ugeek: "

Mange, <Image, but don't get all Sanctimonious remember your first joke here was a pun:

pokermind wrote:How did Lord White Haven describe his first date with Duchess Honor Harrington?

The Date from Hell. Dum-dugh-pum!

you loud mouthed fatso!>

"Why you six limbed walking flea circus you well earned your other name Snarks at Admirals!"

<Speaking of Admirals did you notice Image posted a Honorverse Fan Fic: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9333151/1/A-Trace-of-Character.>

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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Daryl   » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:17 am

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After observing the tenth violently dead gardener in a row, Sherlock Holmes decided there was a Celerial Killer at large.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:31 am

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Chief, “Hey guys a Joke from Runsforcelery. First a bit of background, RFC in asking for questions for the FAQ section of House of Steel a while back http://forums.davidweber.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2390&p=47156&hilit=treecat+marienes#p47156 gave the following examples of Bad Questions:”

Example Bad Questions/Non-Questions:

How many countermissiles does a Flight III Saganami-class Heavy Cruiser carry in its forward magazines?

How about LACs with telepathically-linked Treecat-crews and spinal mount grav lances and platoons of battle armored Medusan Nomad marines for boarding parties? Wouldn’t that be awesome?


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"Introdusing David Weber AKA runsforcelery or RFC our guest comic. Check out this tongue in cheek insider joke in recent interview, SFFWRTCHT: A Chat With Bestselling Author David Weber, by Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 at 12:29 am here,
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/07/sffwrtcht-a-chat-with-bestselling-author-david-weber/:”

SFFWRTCHT: Your books have appendices with detail about military structure, armaments, ships and more in great detail. Is this stuff you make up as you go along or invent before you write the first word?

David Weber: I did an 85K word tech bible before the first word of On Basilisk Station. I also add and annotate as I go along. Keeps me from forgetting how the LAC gravlance with treecat Marines works!


“ :lol: Now a sad note in the above interview David is not working on Honorverse stories :cry: ”

SFFWRTCHT: Any future projects you can tease us about that we might look forward to?

David Weber: I just handed in Safehold Seven, expecting script for the first Honor Harrington movie to review shortly, starting Norfressa magnum opus soon, and Joelle Presby and I will be starting multiverse Number three. Aside from that, not much.


Mange, <Hey Chief, that’s tragedy not comedy you idiot!>

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"@$%^& SFFWRTCHT would not let us use their photo of David, so I replaced with the one here thus the revision!

Found link to original FAQ thread posted above! so revised again.
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Hallofaman   » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:14 am

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my question is how are the treecats armed? with pulsors or al-natrual....
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Howard T. Map-addict   » Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:48 pm

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::a Naughty Moose replies::
Treecats are armed with two true-arms and two leg-arms.

Naughty Moose

Hallofaman wrote:my question is how are the treecats armed? with pulsors or al-natrual....
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Sun Jul 14, 2013 8:08 am

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Hallofaman wrote:my question is how are the treecats armed? with pulsors or al-natrual....


Mange, <There was a whole thread on the subject a year and a half ago. The consensus of us fans was treecat battle armor with vibroblade claws. The best was by The Monster, well before a fat blow hard mentioned Fan-Fic was not allowed on David's Site and he pulled it. But it was so beautiful so I saved it:

The Monster wrote: Imagine Foraker and Hemphill showing off their new toy to Theisman and Springs From Above.

Springs From Above allowed Dreams of Peace to help him into this new metal skin. Before him was a boulder. Dreams of Peace spoke to him: "Reach out with your hand and scratch this rock with your claws." It was a simple, if not silly, thing to do, and Springs from Above complied.

Inside the treecat skinsuit, his claws slowly extended from the fingers into special slits designed to keep the claws from compromising the skinsuit's ability to hold his skin together in vacuum, past sensors that measured their extension. But the millimeter Springs from Above extended his claws was amplified by those sensors; from the tip of the armor protecting each of his fingers came a centimeter of what he immediately recognized from the memory song as the knife wielded by Death Fang's Bane.

Springs From Above cautiously let his claws out another millimeter, and the blades extended an additional centimeter -- no, it was actually just a bit more than that. Each millimeter he extended his claws caused those blades to grow further. When his claws were at their maximum extension of a dozen millimeters, the blades were nearly a quarter meter in length... ... the blades were almost half as long as his own body, and they sliced through the boulder like his own claws would pass through a leaf. Springs from Above knew then that with six hands of these blades, he could kill an entire pack of Death Fangs. He longed to share this memory with a Singer, for he knew it would be sung to all the clans, and hands of hands of generations from now, it would still be sung.


<Of course claws one quarter as long as our body length would be impractical, but we can dream :D >

Chief, "And just who are you to call me a fat blowhard you six limbed walking flea circus!"

<Me, Mange, or Snarks at Admirals.>

"Well one thing you can say about having quarter meter long claws is the marines would have a big claw."

<You two-leg males and your preoccupation with the size of your procreative appendage, revolting.>

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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by smr   » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:11 am

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Pokermind ---- nominated for Chief Publicist for David Weber Inc.

Mange ---- Chief of Security and Information for the Honor Harrington Universe. Protector of Treecats of Grayson
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