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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Sun Mar 09, 2014 6:49 am

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NortonIDaughter wrote:
Jonathan_S wrote:
I just hope someone thought to unload and lock-out her finger pulser and set reasonable software overrides on the artificial arm. :shock:


:shock: Eeek, hadn't even thought of that! And cthia and crew dude think they had it bad. :lol:


Well I don't know about crewdude's doctor, but I do know that my sister's doctor would have taken the pulser shot for sure. And I know the exact moment he would have bought the farm.

"I'm gonna push!"
"No, you can't push now."

"No...mam, you can't push now!"
"Arrrrrggggggghhhhh."
"Breathe sis."
"Shut up!"
"Mam you're pushing!"
"WTF do you expect me to do?"
"Relax and await the proper time."
"THIS IS NO TIME TO BE PROPER YOU QUACK!"

It's a fact that this was his pulser moment.

He had told me that once he tells her to push, the baby could come fairly quickly. So I had initiated the zoom function on the vid-cam to capture it. Now I'm peering into Area 51 in zoom mode and I began to agree with sis, perhaps the doctor is a quack because Area 51 is showing pronounced activity!

"Doc you sure it's not time?"
"She hasn't dilated enough, a few more centimeters."

"Centimeters?" My sister's cavern is already open wide enough that I can insert my arm and pull the baby out myself! Yep, doc's a quack, he's still not conversant with the metric system!

I risk panning the camera to look at my sister's face to say breathe a bit more forcefully.
I thought better of it when I saw that her eye-balls were bulging inside sockets that had dilated more than her poo-nanny.

Apparently she realized she had my attention and began to throw 40-letter words at me to help her.
Trust me if you've never heard ten four-letter words programmed to arrive on target at the same time.
They are programmed for effect. I began to tremble which turned into a full-on shaking when she stopped swearing and mouthed at me between gritted teeth...

"You are going to die mister. Dead meat! Road kill!"

This is the point I asked for drugs for myself, after all Doc and I had built-up a working relationship, a rapport.

"Doc, you know those drugs my sister refuses. Any chance I can have them?!!!"
"Not a chance."

Now I thought about pressing the issue, but after seeing his face in Honor's dialed-up-like telephoto function I realized that he very well may be saving the drugs for himself, to take post-delivery all in one big massive dose. I conceded that possibility to the poor guy, It looked as though he needed it more than I.

Luckily he finally gave the order to push. Good thing too because the low-battery indicator was flashing on vid-screen. Of course it could have been a warning sign that sis' eye-sockets were going to erupt exploding-eye-balls or that Area-51 was going into full-on assault mode!

I was never happier to hear a baby cry!

All of this is recorded for posterity. It was my sister's intention to show this to my niece when she's old enough.

But I can't see any woman actually wanting to become with-child after seeing this video.
In fact, it could be shipped to over-populated countries as a certain guarantee against births.

Any man seeing it would just wear double covering or abstain altogether.

And there's no way any man would ever believe the information given out in Lamaze classes to venture anywhere near teeth of an unmedicated irate woman in labor!

Men should take away from this the knowledge that pregnancies are still going to happen.
Know that the doctor will refuse you drugs in the delivery room so be prepared and bring along your very own IV-drip of a couple of fifths of 151, for one Area-51.

Also know that if you do manage to smuggle in a single syringe of high-powered street-level drugs that you'll be caught undecided between administering said dose to yourself, the doctor or your partner!

NortonIDaughter, crewdude and I did have it bad.
The above is simply a small indication, that upon having Honor's weapons, of how quickly it would have gone from bad to worse!

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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Amaroq   » Sun Mar 09, 2014 4:01 pm

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A nice little on from ART:

“Like David and Goliath?” Wallenstein provided a bit more sharply than he usually spoke to her, and her eyes widened. “I think that’s probably the comparison you’re looking for,” he continued. “And I’ll even grant that it’s appropriate. But you might want to think about how that particular confrontation worked out in the end.”
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Sun Mar 09, 2014 5:59 pm

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.... And Yana had a point. Berry did have an especially warm spot in her heart for Victor Cachat, galaxy-renowed assassin, ice-cold killer, and general purveyor of doom, chaos, and despair.
A Rising Thunder

Every description of Anton and Victor never ceases to amaze me.

Makes me wonder what their favorite cereals were as kids.
Captain Crunch with mini-hexapumas!

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Eagleeye   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:52 am

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cthia wrote:.... And Yana had a point. Berry did have an especially warm spot in her heart for Victor Cachat, galaxy-renowed assassin, ice-cold killer, and general purveyor of doom, chaos, and despair.
A Rising Thunder

Every description of Anton and Victor never ceases to amaze me.

Makes me wonder what their favorite cereals were as kids.
Captain Crunch with mini-hexapumas!


Somehow, I have my doubts about the ... availability of Manticoran "Captain Crunch with mini-hexapumas" in a dolist slum in New Paris ... ;)

Back to topic: One of my favorites one-liners is from OBS: "It seems that no one told Commander Harrington that Basilisk Station is where we send our fuck-ups and deadbeats." (from the first meeting between Hamish Alexander and Admiral Webster)
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:26 am

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Eagleeye wrote:Somehow, I have my doubts about the ... availability of Manticoran "Captain Crunch with mini-hexapumas" in a dolist slum in New Paris ... ;)

Oh I see what you're getting at. They're even worse than I thought...pummeling rich kids for their lunch money and breakfast cereal money too! :o
Eagleeye wrote:Back to topic: One of my favorites one-liners is from OBS: "It seems that no one told Commander Harrington that Basilisk Station is where we send our fuck-ups and deadbeats." (from the first meeting between Hamish Alexander and Admiral Webster)

I love your choice of one-liner as well.
Makes me reflect on the good ole days.
I wonder how Basilisk is considered as a duty station now?

...from commercial...
Not quite a one-liner, but rather interesting that Elizabeth is not only well aware of her own reputation, but stamps it 100% true.

There is no way even the alpha minds of Mesa could have seen this coming.

I wonder if I would have had the sheer nerve to sail straight into my worst enemy’s home system—especially after what those “mystery raiders” did to us—and admit my secretary of state doctored the correspondence that sent us back to war? After so long, so many deaths, because I got played, maneuvered into doing exactly what someone else wanted? Even having Simões’ story to back me up, selling that to someone with my reputation for carrying grudges to the grave and back again took more plain old-fashioned gall and guts than any three women ought to have. Especially after I’d proven this “Alignment” could play me just as thoroughly as it ever played her.

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Hutch   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:58 am

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Well, the short story, "Fanatic" has been mentioned for it's last line on a couple of occasions "..and you were MEAN to him!!"--Ginny Usher, but it has a few other quotable one-liners.

In fact, right at the start of the story, it rather sums up Victor in a nutshell (for those who did not know him).

Citizen Commodore Ogilve, slouched in a nearby chair in her office, put her thoughts into words:

"He looks like a real piece of work, doesn't he?"


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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:50 am

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What the hell. I’ve always liked a challenge.”
—Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:24 pm

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“So that’s why you make such a fiendishly effective diplomat!” she said with something very like an air of triumph. “I couldn’t believe how well a total novice was reading us. Now I know—you were cheating!”

Pritchart and Honor from ART
“Where diplomacy’s concerned, according to my mentors in the Foreign Office, there is no such thing as ‘cheating,’ Madam President. In fact, one of those mentors quoted an old axiom to me. Where diplomacy is involved, he said, if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying hard enough.”

How could I have overlooked A Rising Thunder?!

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Hutch   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:33 pm

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cthia wrote:
“So that’s why you make such a fiendishly effective diplomat!” she said with something very like an air of triumph. “I couldn’t believe how well a total novice was reading us. Now I know—you were cheating!”

Pritchart and Honor from ART
“Where diplomacy’s concerned, according to my mentors in the Foreign Office, there is no such thing as ‘cheating,’ Madam President. In fact, one of those mentors quoted an old axiom to me. Where diplomacy is involved, he said, if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying hard enough.”

How could I have overlooked A Rising Thunder?!


Actually, IIRC, they were first proclaimed in Mission of Honor (the MWW has a habit the last few books of copying chapters wholesale from book to book).

Still, excellent lines.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by cthia   » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:54 pm

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Art has me wallowing inside my own exuberance!
Too bad my vacation is over and I have to requisition leisure time.
“Well, it just happens that Thomas here has a modest little fleet—two or three hundred of the wall, I believe—waiting approximately eight hours from Trevor’s Star in hyper. If you’re willing to trust us in Manticoran space, perhaps we could help you encourage Filareta to see reason. And while I’m well aware our hardware isn’t as good as yours, every indication I’ve seen is that it’s one hell of a lot better than anything the Sollies have.”

:lol:

Art has me feeling like it's Christmas time!
And I'm nowhere near Filareta getting his ass kicked!!

Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
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