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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Thirdbase   » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:50 pm

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pokermind wrote:Mange, <For those who don't read the Safehold forum in answer to a question on the use of lee-boars in the Safehold series I butted into the following conversation between the chief and runsforcelery.> :

runsforcelery wrote:
pokermind wrote:None are mentioned but, small unmentioned coastal ships and fishing boats might have them. If low draft river ironclads are transported I imagine center-boards for stability to travel in the seas might be used. David did so in 1634 The Baltic War in the Assiti Shards Universe he wrote with Eric Flint.

Poker



Ahem.

OAR, page 239, electronic version:

But Dawn was sailing within just under fifty degrees of the true wind. Even that was far from spectacular by the standards of the sailing yachts Nimue had known on Old Earth's salt water, but Dawn had been converted from a typical Howell Bay coaster. She was relatively shoal-hulled and broad-beamed, without the fin keel or centerboard of one of those yachts. Merlin and Sir Dustyn had added leeboards to give her better hydrodynamics, but it was an awkward, makeshift fix, and the schooner rig itself was inherently less weatherly than the sloops or yawls Nimue had once sailed for recreation.

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BHD, page 164, electronic version:
One of the new Charisian innovations had been the introduction of the heliograph, using reflected sunlight to transmit messages in what another world in another time would have called "Morse code." Another had been the construction of specifically designed landing craft. Although capable -- theoretically, at least -- of making independent passages under sail, the shallow draft and flat bottoms designed to make over-the-beach landings possible also made them less than ideal blue-water vessels at the best of times. Sir Dustyn Olyvyr had improved things at least a bit by providing them with retractable leeboards, but they'd made the voyage from Charis as deck cargo, and the captains responsible for getting them to Corisande had not been delighted by their assignment.

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I’m pretty sure they’ve been mentioned more places than this. These were just the two I remembered off the top of my head.


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Chief, "What I get commenting after just one read through."

Mange, <Open mouth, insert foot, wiggle toes, Two-Leg!"

"Avast thar ye six-limbed walking flee circus go back to the Honorverse where you belong!"

<You started it with that Honorverse bummper sticker :p> Image

"You can be replaced with a cat-lizard you know."

<Cat-lizards are not sentient so who would you talk to?> :p

"Grumble, grumble ... grumble."

Poker & Mange


Mange, he would talk to the same person he did before he met you. Himself!
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runsforcelery wrote:
Thirdbase wrote:I think that was the next novel.



Allow me to demonstrate my concision, brevity, and economy of phrase:

"Smart alec!" ;p
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Emo Otaku   » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:38 am

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Thirdbase wrote:
pokermind wrote:
"You can be replaced with a cat-lizard you know."

<Cat-lizards are not sentient so who would you talk to?> :p

"Grumble, grumble ... grumble."

Poker & Mange


Mange, he would talk to the same person he did before he met you. Himself!



Maybe he would prefer the peace and quiet
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:08 pm

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Arrr ye skervey skraney bilge rats this be National Talk like A Pirate Day in the USA a pirate joke for ye to shiver yar timbers:

Jolly ole England Ralphie spots his friend Jamie who he hadn't seen in years,

Ralphie "Jamie is that you?"

Jamie "Aye mate. 'Er ye Ralphie"

After the hugging and black slapping Ralphie says, "I could hardly recognize you with your peg-leg, eye-patch, and a hook for a hand. Where in the name of God have you been?"

"Arrr the night I left you in the pub I ran afoul of a press-gang and joined the Royal Navy."

"That's awful, how did you loose your leg?"

"Arrr twas again' the Barbary Pirates a canon ball came through the ship and took me leg. But we had a good ship's carpenter and he whittled out me peg."

"How did you loose your hand?"

"Arrr twas again' the New World Pirates, they board us and a Pirate cutlass took me hand. But we had a good ship's blacksmith and he made me this hook."

"How did you loose your eye?"

"Arrr I looked up to the main top gallants and got some seagull poo in the eye."

"Seagull poo shouldn't have put out your eye?"

"Arrr did happen the day after I got me hook worse luck."

Arrr Poker

Other pirate or nautical jokes?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:55 pm

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pokermind wrote:A paraphrase of one of Admiral Werrf's jokes:

Knock -knock

"Who's there"

"Honor"

"Honor who?"

"On 'er way to the Landing Dueling Field, wana watch North Hollow's demise."

CPO Poker Mind, Come on Honorverse jokers post some new ones, better ones.



Knock Knock

"Who's there"

"Honor"

"Honor who"

"On 'er way to the Landing Dueling Field, Earl North Hollow. Are you ready to go?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:54 pm

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Chief, "What do you call a spammer on David Weber's site?"

Mange, <Duckk food?>

"Or Decked by the Duckk, Go Duckk!"

Poker & Mange

PS. "Good one Rocket Scientist."

PSS. Mange, <But trying to one up Admiral Werrf can be trying.>
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Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

rocket_scientist wrote:
pokermind wrote:A paraphrase of one of Admiral Werrf's jokes:

Knock -knock

"Who's there"

"Honor"

"Honor who?"

"On 'er way to the Landing Dueling Field, wana watch North Hollow's demise."

CPO Poker Mind, Come on Honorverse jokers post some new ones, better ones.



Knock Knock

"Who's there"

"Honor"

"Honor who"

"On 'er way to the Landing Dueling Field, Earl North Hollow. Are you ready to go?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Mon Sep 17, 2012 11:03 pm

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pokermind wrote:PS. "Good one Rocket Scientist."

PSS. Mange, <But trying to one up Admiral Werrf can be trying.>


Yes,
but as Honor would say, "I'll take a shot at it!"
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:34 pm

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rocket_scientist wrote:
pokermind wrote:PS. "Good one Rocket Scientist."

PSS. Mange, <But trying to one up Admiral Werrf can be trying.>


Yes,
but as Honor would say, "I'll take a shot at it!"


Brought forward due to spam attack, look to page 2-4 to bring forward the other current topics *&^%$#@!! spamer!
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by rocket_scientist   » Tue Sep 18, 2012 2:24 pm

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pokermind wrote:Brought forward due to spam attack, look to page 2-4 to bring forward the other current topics *&^%$#@!! spamer!


HOUSE KEEPING!!!

we have a ton of SPAM on the floor that needs to be shoveled up and removed!

:)
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by Emo Otaku   » Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:24 am

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rocket_scientist wrote:
pokermind wrote:Brought forward due to spam attack, look to page 2-4 to bring forward the other current topics *&^%$#@!! spamer!


HOUSE KEEPING!!!

we have a ton of SPAM on the floor that needs to be shoveled up and removed!

:)


I'm not actually sure which is worse forum spam, or actual Spam?
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Re: Honorverse Humor or lack thereof.
Post by pokermind   » Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:19 pm

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Chief, "What did they send you from the Harrington Steading Clan in that box?"

Mange, <Some Sphinxian celery, and some fertile eggs for Sphinxin chickens.>

"OK the celery for your mind-voice I understand, but chickens, aren't they the same as Terran chickens?"

<Nope, Doctors Harrington have been studying the genome of Sphinxin wild life to help repair Laughs-Brightly's mind-voice. Since they both like the drumstick they inserted some genes in these chickens, they have four legs and two wings. When they grow you and I won't argue over who gets both drumsticks either. Oh they lay twice the number of eggs, too>

"OK the drumsticks I can see, but what are you going to do with the eggs other than the Chinaman's egg rolls you don't eat eggs, and I can't due to my cholesterol"

<The Chinaman needs eggs to make egg rolls and chicken to make chicken chow-main so, I made a deal.> Image

"What a wheeler dealer, you're worse than Grover on McHale's Navy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iNOBFk-eEM

<Yep.> Image "Bleek, bleek, bleek,...bleek." Image

Mange & Poker
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