pokermind wrote:Mind Pun Treecat signing a commercial on the Wid-Screen:
<Introducing the new Sign Language to English Translator see a small light silver dangle:>
<To turn on simply pull down the speaker and adjust for volume:>
<Then just sign naturally:>
<Then the silver dangle makes two-leg mouth noises>
<No more frustration with stupid two-legs who can't read signs!>
Chief Poker Mind, "What do you think, Mange?"
Spacecat First Mangy Fur, <Our creator Runs-for-Celery should watch this commercial. I'll order one, I earned enough at poker to supply the whole clan. Stupid two-leg Snotties try to play poker with a treecat and don't have a poker-mind like you, Chief Poker Mind!>
"Bleek! ... Bleek!"
Well I think I should give the source for the illustrations above http://petitinvention.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/sign-language-interpreter/ none are my own.
What did the Sollie robot freighter signal to the Manticorian Q-Ship Captain?
"I surrender, Dear."*
*A reference to the original Star Trek TV Series where the computer had been programed by women "who thought it needed a personality, female of course," Mr. Spock. And an old WW2 movie IIRCStalag 17 with a joke song "I surrender, Dear."
Am I the last joker in the whole Honorverse. No other wise crackers? What happened to Admiral Warrf a funny-bone-ectomy?