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Re: Chisholm
Post by John Prigent   » Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:10 am

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Every time I see the name Chisholm the theme from Chisum (the John Wayne movie) start running through my head. Am I alone in this affliction?
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Re: Chisholm
Post by FredMart72   » Fri Mar 04, 2016 10:58 am

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John Prigent wrote:Every time I see the name Chisholm the theme from Chisum (the John Wayne movie) start running through my head. Am I alone in this affliction?
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John


Not really, Pilgrim.
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Re: Chisholm
Post by saber964   » Fri Mar 04, 2016 5:18 pm

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FredMart72 wrote:
John Prigent wrote:Every time I see the name Chisholm the theme from Chisum (the John Wayne movie) start running through my head. Am I alone in this affliction?
Cheers
John


Not really, Pilgrim.



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Re: Chisholm
Post by EngrS3   » Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:22 pm

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John Prigent wrote:Every time I see the name Chisholm the theme from Chisum (the John Wayne movie) start running through my head. Am I alone in this affliction?
Cheers
John


You're definitely not alone!
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Re: Chisholm
Post by evilauthor   » Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:28 pm

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What I don't get is why the OP needed to ask this question in the first place. I mean, it's explained in excruciating detail in the third book what the Chisholm Army was created for and how it came to be (in the chapter where Cayleb addresses the Chisholmian Parliament).

Unlike such questions like "Why doesn't Merlin just SNARC bomb enemy ships?" or "Why doesn't the EoC do assassinations?" where you have to a little reading between the lines to get the answers, the answer to THIS question has been explicitly infodumped in the text itself.
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Re: Chisholm
Post by n7axw   » Mon Mar 07, 2016 12:16 pm

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evilauthor wrote:What I don't get is why the OP needed to ask this question in the first place. I mean, it's explained in excruciating detail in the third book what the Chisholm Army was created for and how it came to be (in the chapter where Cayleb addresses the Chisholmian Parliament).

Unlike such questions like "Why doesn't Merlin just SNARC bomb enemy ships?" or "Why doesn't the EoC do assassinations?" where you have to a little reading between the lines to get the answers, the answer to THIS question has been explicitly infodumped in the text itself.


I suspect that it is not so much that its origins are unknown, at least among regulars here on the forum, as that it is fun to talk about, especially given the success of the Chisholmian officer corp on the mainland.

Don

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