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How old are Honorverse fans?

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Your Age Group:

12 & under
0
No votes
Teens
10
4%
20s
48
18%
30s
60
22%
40s
56
21%
50s
52
19%
60s
35
13%
70s
11
4%
eighty and above
1
0%
 
Total votes : 273
Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Spacekiwi   » Thu May 30, 2013 5:33 pm

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old enough to remember the new millennium, young enough to not be around at the fall of the wall.
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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Northstar   » Thu May 30, 2013 11:08 pm

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Spacekiwi wrote:old enough to remember the new millennium, young enough to not be around at the fall of the wall.


That's too bad. The Fall of the Wall was awesome. :D As in jaw dropping for those of us who grew up with duck and cover and the Cuban missile crisis and all that scary sword of Diogenes stuff. Further along the bloom is off the Russian rose, but Germany seems to have healed, though I'm sure there are major scars etc.

But then history is always serving up new awesome events, variously good or bad. My gr gr aunt was born in 1886 and sat up all night to watch Armstrong walk on the moon. And surely there will be awesome things in the future you will experience that I will not live to see. :)
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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Spacekiwi   » Fri May 31, 2013 5:18 am

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Northstar wrote:
Spacekiwi wrote:old enough to remember the new millennium, young enough to not be around at the fall of the wall.


That's too bad. The Fall of the Wall was awesome. :D As in jaw dropping for those of us who grew up with duck and cover and the Cuban missile crisis and all that scary sword of Diogenes stuff. Further along the bloom is off the Russian rose, but Germany seems to have healed, though I'm sure there are major scars etc.

But then history is always serving up new awesome events, variously good or bad. My gr gr aunt was born in 1886 and sat up all night to watch Armstrong walk on the moon. And surely there will be awesome things in the future you will experience that I will not live to see. :)




Yeah, I know, it just seems that all the world changing stuff happened before I was born.
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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by KNick   » Fri May 31, 2013 8:26 am

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Spacekiwi wrote:Yeah, I know, it just seems that all the world changing stuff happened before I was born.


Sometimes we don't recognize the biggest changes until decades later. For instance, the double hand transplant last year. The partial cures for cancer. The partial cures for AIDS. Ratification of Gay Marriage in many places. (Relatively painlessly for those who don't remember the race riots in the US.) That is just a short list of world changing events from the last couple of years whose effects we will be seeing for decades. Not all of the really world changing events are as loud as the A-bomb or as visible as the Fall of the Wall, but some of them are just as profound.
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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Northstar   » Fri May 31, 2013 1:17 pm

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KNick wrote:
Spacekiwi wrote:Yeah, I know, it just seems that all the world changing stuff happened before I was born.


Sometimes we don't recognize the biggest changes until decades later. For instance, the double hand transplant last year. The partial cures for cancer. The partial cures for AIDS. Ratification of Gay Marriage in many places. (Relatively painlessly for those who don't remember the race riots in the US.) That is just a short list of world changing events from the last couple of years whose effects we will be seeing for decades. Not all of the really world changing events are as loud as the A-bomb or as visible as the Fall of the Wall, but some of them are just as profound.


Indeed. Still, most of us missed WWII and all of us missed WWI and The Spanish Flu that killed millions in 1918 or so. There is always something and often it is not anticipated. It just explodes on the world stage one day, seemingly out of nowhere. Note - seemingly - . :)
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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Imaginos1892   » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:05 pm

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Northstar wrote:
Spacekiwi wrote:old enough to remember the new millennium, young enough to not be around at the fall of the wall.


That's too bad. The Fall of the Wall was awesome. :D As in jaw dropping for those of us who grew up with duck and cover and the Cuban missile crisis and all that scary sword of Diogenes stuff. Further along the bloom is off the Russian rose, but Germany seems to have healed, though I'm sure there are major scars etc.

But then history is always serving up new awesome events, variously good or bad. My gr gr aunt was born in 1886 and sat up all night to watch Armstrong walk on the moon. And surely there will be awesome things in the future you will experience that I will not live to see. :)


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Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
Post by Grabthar's Hammer   » Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:57 am

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Imaginos1892 wrote:
Northstar wrote:
That's too bad. The Fall of the Wall was awesome. :D As in jaw dropping for those of us who grew up with duck and cover and the Cuban missile crisis and all that scary sword of Diogenes stuff. Further along the bloom is off the Russian rose, but Germany seems to have healed, though I'm sure there are major scars etc.

But then history is always serving up new awesome events, variously good or bad. My gr gr aunt was born in 1886 and sat up all night to watch Armstrong walk on the moon. And surely there will be awesome things in the future you will experience that I will not live to see. :)


Errr -- sword of Damocles. Diogenes was the guy that went around looking for an honest man. Mostly in vain.
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    I do like the idea of a 'Sword of Diogenes'. It could be part of a matching set along with the 'Lantern of Damocles'. The blade perhaps causing honest men to flee during the daytime and the lantern just ominously dangling... :)
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    Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
    Post by Northstar   » Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:32 pm

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    Grabthar's Hammer wrote:
      I do like the idea of a 'Sword of Diogenes'. It could be part of a matching set along with the 'Lantern of Damocles'. The blade perhaps causing honest men to flee during the daytime and the lantern just ominously dangling... :)


    I have been caught in a blatantly dumb booboo. Bad Northstar. Go stand in the corner. :P

    I could pretend it was a test to see who'd catch it.. but that would be a bald-faced lie. I screwed up. Shocking, but there it is. :D

    I love your sword and lantern schtick, though. Really do. :)
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    Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
    Post by Spacekiwi   » Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:03 pm

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    Northstar wrote:
    Grabthar's Hammer wrote:
      I do like the idea of a 'Sword of Diogenes'. It could be part of a matching set along with the 'Lantern of Damocles'. The blade perhaps causing honest men to flee during the daytime and the lantern just ominously dangling... :)


    I have been caught in a blatantly dumb booboo. Bad Northstar. Go stand in the corner. :P

    I could pretend it was a test to see who'd catch it.. but that would be a bald-faced lie. I screwed up. Shocking, but there it is. :D

    I love your sword and lantern schtick, though. Really do. :)




    I was too busy thinking about the possibilities of a fast as light judgement causing schrodinger uncertanity, leading to a beheading, and a live person at the same tinme, thanks to the light..... :P
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    Re: How old are Honerverse fans?
    Post by KNick   » Wed Jun 05, 2013 10:06 pm

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    It would be nice if those who were willing would go to

    User Control Panel > Profile > Edit Profile

    and add their location to their sign in.

    It would be nice also if the newcomers voted for either/or both of the series that they read.
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