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Post by unlucky caz   » Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:29 pm

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While listening to HFQ I noticed that the ships name that was to get thirsks family out was named "Mary Jane". Was this a joke about drug smuggling as the capitan was a known smuggler?
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by saber964   » Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:57 pm

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unlucky caz wrote:While listening to HFQ I noticed that the ships name that was to get thirsks family out was named "Mary Jane". Was this a joke about drug smuggling as the capitan was a known smuggler?



IIRC the ship was smuggling a large quantity of whiskey.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by Loren Pechtel   » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:31 pm

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unlucky caz wrote:While listening to HFQ I noticed that the ships name that was to get thirsks family out was named "Mary Jane". Was this a joke about drug smuggling as the capitan was a known smuggler?


That wouldn't make much sense. It's either legal or nonexistent. They had plenty of control, they could have kept anyone from bringing seeds if they wanted to.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by evilauthor   » Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:49 pm

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Loren Pechtel wrote:
unlucky caz wrote:While listening to HFQ I noticed that the ships name that was to get thirsks family out was named "Mary Jane". Was this a joke about drug smuggling as the capitan was a known smuggler?


That wouldn't make much sense. It's either legal or nonexistent. They had plenty of control, they could have kept anyone from bringing seeds if they wanted to.


It's a joke, but it's a joke in the same vein as people being named "Kent Clark" and "Norman Bates". They're in-jokes meant to appeal to the reader but has absolutely zero meaning to the people of Safehold.

Also, I wouldn't put it past the terraforming crew to include genetically engineered marijuana that ups the medicinal value while reducing the addictiveness. It's become part of the standard Safeholdian healer's kit. I believe anesthetics have been mentioned in the text... mostly when groups run out of them.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by emeye   » Thu Jan 14, 2016 3:53 pm

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evilauthor wrote:It's a joke, but it's a joke in the same vein as people being named "Kent Clark" and "Norman Bates". They're in-jokes meant to appeal to the reader but has absolutely zero meaning to the people of Safehold.


Still, nothing beats the Rennaisance Factor "Board of Directors" meeting: the reader groans, and keeps groaning for the whole page.

Perpetrated by the same miscreant, figures :)
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by saber964   » Thu Jan 14, 2016 5:39 pm

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emeye wrote:
evilauthor wrote:It's a joke, but it's a joke in the same vein as people being named "Kent Clark" and "Norman Bates". They're in-jokes meant to appeal to the reader but has absolutely zero meaning to the people of Safehold.


Still, nothing beats the Rennaisance Factor "Board of Directors" meeting: the reader groans, and keeps groaning for the whole page.

Perpetrated by the same miscreant, figures :)



What if the Mary Jane was captained by Pytahr Pahrkyr as a in joke.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by USMA74   » Fri Jan 15, 2016 2:46 pm

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SNIP

"What if the Mary Jane was captained by Pytahr Pahrkyr as a in joke."

There are certain crimes against humanity and common decency that require the full application of the punishments found in the Book of Schuler. This is one of those. :lol:
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by saber964   » Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:24 pm

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USMA74 wrote:SNIP

"What if the Mary Jane was captained by Pytahr Pahrkyr as a in joke."

There are certain crimes against humanity and common decency that require the full application of the punishments found in the Book of Schuler. This is one of those. :lol:


RFC is always slipping in in-jokes, like in EOH the planet Lois in the Clark system and StateSec commander White and PN commander James Olsen. Or the reference to Silence of the Lambs in We Few.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by unlucky caz   » Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:53 pm

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Wait was the captains name actually Peter parker? I'm going to have to go back and take a look. These little "in-jokes" with the reader are always a lot of fun to find.
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Re: amusing ship name
Post by Undercover Fat Kid   » Sat Jan 16, 2016 9:56 pm

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I keep waiting for the "Thunder Child" to make her last, gloriously suicidal stand against an overpowering foe.
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Death is as a feather,
Duty is as a mountain
This life is a dream
From which we all
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