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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Roguevictory   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 3:52 pm

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stewart wrote:
Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Promotion requirements:
When you register: Midshipman.
Your 10th post makes you an Ensign.
25: Lt. J. G.
50: Lieutenant
100: Commander
150: Captain J. G.
200: Captain
300: Commodore
400: Rear Admiral
500: Vice Admiral
700: Admiral
1000: Admiral of the Fleet

Remember --
(1) Officers do no productive work
(2) Officers are not gainfully employed
(3) Many officers are suspected of being of questionable parentage.....

-- USN Retired Enlisted



Something's off with the rank list. According to yours I should be a Captain JG but I'm a Commander
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Hutch   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:23 pm

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Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Promotion requirements:
When you register: Midshipman.
Your 10th post makes you an Ensign.
25: Lt. J. G.
50: Lieutenant
100: Commander
150: Captain J. G.
200: Captain
300: Commodore
400: Rear Admiral
500: Vice Admiral
700: Admiral
1000: Admiral of the Fleet


Roguevictory wrote:Something's off with the rank list. According to yours I should be a Captain JG but I'm a Commander


I think that's the old promotion list, Rogue. It now takes 1,000 posts to make it to Rear Admiral, and I think at least 1,500 to Vice.
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Michael Everett   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:25 pm

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Roguevictory wrote:Something's off with the rank list. According to yours I should be a Captain JG but I'm a Commander

That was the old rank list.
When too many people started becoming full admirals, the ranking system got re-done.
I lost a couple of ranks to it, myself.

Still think there should be extra medal icons for things like appearing in a Weber book or running missions for Weber (Duckk would have one instantly)...
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Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
Post by Grabthar's Hammer   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:45 pm

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Howard T. Map-addict wrote:Promotion requirements:
When you register: Midshipman.
Your 10th post makes you an Ensign.
25: Lt. J. G.
50: Lieutenant
100: Commander
150: Captain J. G.
200: Captain
300: Commodore
400: Rear Admiral
500: Vice Admiral
700: Admiral
1000: Admiral of the Fleet

Remember --
(1) Officers do no productive work
(2) Officers are not gainfully employed
(3) Many officers are suspected of being of questionable parentage.....

-- USN Retired Enlisted

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"If bread is the staff of life, what is the life of the staff? - One long loaf!"
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    Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
    Post by ksandgren   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:55 pm

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    The current ranking system is listed in the post Kbus888 put together here.

    http://web.ncf.ca/et116/DW-ABBR.htm

    It can also be found in forum rules page 14.
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    Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
    Post by roseandheather   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:23 pm

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    Scathach wrote:
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    Well, HELLO. I think you and I are going to get along JUST fine. :mrgreen: For starters, you have excellent taste in favorite characters - any friend of Theisman's or Eloise's is a friend of mine!!

    Now, shall we go find that chocolate?

    Oh, and to lighten things up a bit....

    "[Khumalo] rumbled like an irritated boar." TSoS

    Something about that image just gets to me. The fact that I want to cuddle the cranky admiral probably doesn't say much for my sense of self-preservation, though....


    ahaha don't worry I sort of have the same reaction as well everytime Khumalo appears.
    Or, Alfredo... or Caslet... or... ok, I have a long list!

    *passes some chocolate*


    ....I think we really ought to compare lists sometime. I suspect they'll be startlingly similar.

    And I'm glad to know I'm not the only one in whom Khumalo induces a "cuddle the admiral" reaction! He really is delicious, isn't he? All grumbly and stolid and patient and snarky and unexpectedly brilliant. Just... GIMME.
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    Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
    Post by cthia   » Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:53 pm

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    Scathach wrote:
    roseandheather wrote:
    Well, HELLO. I think you and I are going to get along JUST fine. :mrgreen: For starters, you have excellent taste in favorite characters - any friend of Theisman's or Eloise's is a friend of mine!!

    Now, shall we go find that chocolate?

    Oh, and to lighten things up a bit....

    "[Khumalo] rumbled like an irritated boar." TSoS

    Something about that image just gets to me. The fact that I want to cuddle the cranky admiral probably doesn't say much for my sense of self-preservation, though....


    ahaha don't worry I sort of have the same reaction as well everytime Khumalo appears.
    Or, Alfredo... or Caslet... or... ok, I have a long list!

    *passes some chocolate*


    ....I think we really ought to compare lists sometime. I suspect they'll be startlingly similar.
    roseandheather wrote:
    And I'm glad to know I'm not the only one in whom Khumalo induces a "cuddle the admiral" reaction! He really is delicious, isn't he? All grumbly and stolid and patient and snarky and unexpectedly brilliant. Just... GIMME.

    Khumalo brings to my mind the phrase ...
    "We have awakened a sleeping giant."

    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 Scathach   » Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:52 am

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    roseandheather wrote:
    ....I think we really ought to compare lists sometime. I suspect they'll be startlingly similar.

    And I'm glad to know I'm not the only one in whom Khumalo induces a "cuddle the admiral" reaction! He really is delicious, isn't he? All grumbly and stolid and patient and snarky and unexpectedly brilliant. Just... GIMME.


    Last time I had a HH book marathon I compiled a list of all the characthers I liked. It's long. Very long.

    Also, I have a cuddle reaction towards Alfredo in this scene
    "Alfredo Yu, for his part, had seated himself at the writing desk and was idly doodling on a sheet of paper with an old-fashioned stylus."

    I loved him from the first time he appeared in the books. I had a feeling he was going to be an amazing character, and I was not disappointed.
    But then I read that above mentioned passage and the fluff hit me :lol:
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    Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
    Post by Amaroq   » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:19 pm

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    From ART.

    "I remember my father saying true leadership isn’t the ability to accomplish the things you plan on; it’s the ability to cope with the things you never in a thousand years saw coming.” She smiled a bit raggedly. “I seem to’ve been getting a lot of practice at that lately."


    Right on, Beth, right on. I'm glad we got a short story about Roger because he was an awesome King.
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    Re: Honorverse favorite one-liners
    Post by timmopussycat   » Wed Aug 27, 2014 10:22 am

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    cthia wrote:"Want a little help in that alley, skipper?" OBS

    Theisman to his first officer.

    Great admirals don't make wars great, bad admirals make great admirals' wars great.
    -cthia


    Actually that's the FO speaking to his commander.
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