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"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18

Started byLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
First post2016-10-06 12:43 -0500
Last post2016-10-10 15:01 -0500
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  "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 12:43 -0500
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 10:45 -0700
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 10:59 -0700
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 banjo@dontspam.silent.com - 2016-10-06 19:17 +0100
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2016-10-06 11:52 -0700
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 15:43 -0500
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-06 17:29 -0500
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 20:17 -0500
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-10-06 18:54 -0700
            Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-10-06 19:04 -0700
            Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-12 16:33 -0500
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-10-06 19:40 +0000
    Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2016-10-07 04:40 +0000
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-06 22:12 -0700
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-10-07 08:14 -0400
          Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2016-10-07 09:18 -0700
      Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2016-10-07 22:43 -0300
        Re: "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 15:01 -0500

#453150 — "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18

FromLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-06 12:43 -0500
Subject"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
Message-ID<nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>
"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18

"Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."

"Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position then you are not willing to win."

Is Captain Tagon really dead ?

Lynn

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#453152

FromGutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-06 10:45 -0700
Message-ID<XnsA6996D6188BFEtaustingmail@69.16.179.43>
In reply to#453150
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote in
news:nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me: 

> "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
>      http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
> 
> "Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
> 
> "Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own
> position then you are not willing to win." 
> 
> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?

An interesting question. Normally, I'd assume no, he'll be back. 
Taylor has killed regular characters before, though. And Tagon isn't 
the title character, after all.

-- 
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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#453155

FromDimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Date2016-10-06 10:59 -0700
Message-ID<nt63ds$2lq$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453150
On 10/6/2016 10:43 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
>     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
>
> "Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
>
> "Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position
> then you are not willing to win."
>
> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>
> Lynn

He hasn't been seen since.  But then again only a few minutes have 
elapsed in Schlock time since then so....

-- 
Running the rec.arts.TV Channels Watched Survey.
Fall 2016 survey began Sep 01; still accepting responses for Summer 2016

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#453158

Frombanjo@dontspam.silent.com
Date2016-10-06 19:17 +0100
Message-ID<f65dvbt749g30o0f7ur2ti6i4gfg6b0teu@4ax.com>
In reply to#453150
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:43:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
>     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
>
>"Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
>
>"Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position then you are not willing to win."
>
>Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>
>Lynn

Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.

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#453165

FromRobert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
Date2016-10-06 11:52 -0700
Message-ID<robertaw-6BF672.11520906102016@news.individual.net>
In reply to#453158
In article <f65dvbt749g30o0f7ur2ti6i4gfg6b0teu@4ax.com>,
 banjo@dontspam.silent.com wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:43:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
> >     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
> >
> >"Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
> >
> >"Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position then 
> >you are not willing to win."
> >
> >Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
> >
> >Lynn
> 
> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.

I will point out a conference of AIs that took place 3.6 seconds before 
the detonation concluded that saving him involved risking the rest of 
the personnel on the ship (and the ship if it didn't self detonate). 
Captain Tagon was a casualty of the Tagnon Exclusion Principle (there 
can only be one Tagnon in a plot line at a time).

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#453185

FromLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-06 15:43 -0500
Message-ID<nt6d09$7a7$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453158
On 10/6/2016 1:17 PM, banjo@dontspam.silent.com wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 12:43:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
>>     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
>>
>> "Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
>>
>> "Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position then you are not willing to win."
>>
>> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>>
>> Lynn
>
> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.

Are teraport cages bidirectional ?

Thanks,
Lynn

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#453197

FromDavid DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net>
Date2016-10-06 17:29 -0500
Message-ID<9f6dnepMnt6tTWvKnZ2dnUU7-a-dnZ2d@earthlink.com>
In reply to#453158
On 2016-10-06, banjo@dontspam.silent.com <banjo@dontspam.silent.com> wrote:
> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.

I haven't checked on the strip in a few weeks. So you're saying ...
... he brought a bomb to a teraport fight?

Dave, remarkable, Captain
-- 
\/David	DeLaney	posting	thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that	grows the flower
It's not the clock that	slows the hour 	The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is	all it takes to	make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE	HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
website on VIC is down,	probably for good - oh well/ I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

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#453220

FromLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-06 20:17 -0500
Message-ID<nt6t2d$ptr$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453197
On 10/6/2016 5:29 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
> On 2016-10-06, banjo@dontspam.silent.com <banjo@dontspam.silent.com> wrote:
>> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
>> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.
>
> I haven't checked on the strip in a few weeks. So you're saying ...
> ... he brought a bomb to a teraport fight?
>
> Dave, remarkable, Captain

He brought a bomb sized grenade to a room of teraport cages.  Not good.

I hope that I have not spoiled anything for you.

Lynn

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#453225

FromDimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Date2016-10-06 18:54 -0700
Message-ID<nt6v8v$m6r$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453220
On 10/6/2016 6:17 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 10/6/2016 5:29 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
>> On 2016-10-06, banjo@dontspam.silent.com <banjo@dontspam.silent.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
>>> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.
>>
>> I haven't checked on the strip in a few weeks. So you're saying ...
>> ... he brought a bomb to a teraport fight?
>>
>> Dave, remarkable, Captain
>
> He brought a bomb sized grenade to a room of teraport cages.  Not good.
>
> I hope that I have not spoiled anything for you.
>
It wasn't a bomb sized grenade.  It was the warhead of a ship-to-ship 
missile.


-- 
Running the rec.arts.TV Channels Watched Survey.
Fall 2016 survey began Sep 01; still accepting responses for Summer 2016

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#453226

Fromhamish.laws@gmail.com
Date2016-10-06 19:04 -0700
Message-ID<6aa5b813-fb50-4bf4-9831-b65e1e9b12b1@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#453225
On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 12:54:56 PM UTC+11, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/6/2016 6:17 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> > On 10/6/2016 5:29 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
> >> On 2016-10-06, banjo@dontspam.silent.com <banjo@dontspam.silent.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
> >>> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.
> >>
> >> I haven't checked on the strip in a few weeks. So you're saying ...
> >> ... he brought a bomb to a teraport fight?
> >>
> >> Dave, remarkable, Captain
> >
> > He brought a bomb sized grenade to a room of teraport cages.  Not good.
> >
> > I hope that I have not spoiled anything for you.
> >
> It wasn't a bomb sized grenade.  It was the warhead of a ship-to-ship 
> missile.
> 
Still surprisingly accurate for Lynn...

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#453711

FromLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-12 16:33 -0500
Message-ID<ntma67$va4$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453225
On 10/6/2016 8:54 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/6/2016 6:17 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 10/6/2016 5:29 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-06, banjo@dontspam.silent.com <banjo@dontspam.silent.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Well, he carried a bomb into a room full of teraport cages. He would
>>>> be daft not to try to dive into one before the bomb went off.
>>>
>>> I haven't checked on the strip in a few weeks. So you're saying ...
>>> ... he brought a bomb to a teraport fight?
>>>
>>> Dave, remarkable, Captain
>>
>> He brought a bomb sized grenade to a room of teraport cages.  Not good.
>>
>> I hope that I have not spoiled anything for you.
>>
> It wasn't a bomb sized grenade.  It was the warhead of a ship-to-ship missile.

One man's ship-to-ship missile warhead is another man's grenade.

Lynn

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#453174

Fromdjheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Date2016-10-06 19:40 +0000
Message-ID<oEn5Aw.198B@kithrup.com>
In reply to#453150
In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>"Schlock Mercenary", "Big Dumb Objects, Part IV", 2016-09-18
>     http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-18
>
>"Maxim 61 says don't bring big grenades into small rooms."
>
>"Maxim 20 says that if you are not willing to shell your own position
>then you are not willing to win."
>
>Is Captain Tagon really dead ?

On no grounds whatever, I doubt it.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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#453242

Fromgoldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Date2016-10-07 04:40 +0000
Message-ID<oEnuB0.KBu@kithrup.com>
In reply to#453150
In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>Is Captain Tagon really dead ?

Did we see his body?

-- 
   David Goldfarb          |"Everyone generalizes from insufficient data.
goldfarbdj@gmail.com       | I know I do."
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  |                  -- Steven Brust

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#453256

FromGutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-06 22:12 -0700
Message-ID<XnsA699E1E0F9901taustingmail@69.16.179.42>
In reply to#453242
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) wrote in 
news:oEnuB0.KBu@kithrup.com:

> In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
> 
> Did we see his body?
> 
Let's not forget, we've had characters dead _and buried_ who came 
back in the past. If we had a body, it would only prove he's still 
alive.

-- 
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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#453272

From"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com>
Date2016-10-07 08:14 -0400
Message-ID<nt83ja$t3d$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453256
On 10/7/16 1:12 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) wrote in
> news:oEnuB0.KBu@kithrup.com:
>
>> In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>>
>> Did we see his body?
>>
> Let's not forget, we've had characters dead _and buried_ who came
> back in the past. If we had a body, it would only prove he's still
> alive.
>


	While it might run counter to many tropes, I'm on the side saying 
Tagon's dead, dead, dead. I love Tagon, I hate the idea that he's dead, 
but sometimes you go into a situation knowing that death is what's 
coming for you, and the question is what will that death accomplish. If 
his death accomplishes his goal (and the heat-exchangers don't die) 
it'll be a good death.


-- 
                      Sea Wasp
                        /^\
                        ;;;	
Website: http://www.grandcentralarena.com  Blog: 
http://seawasp.livejournal.com

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#453283

FromGutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-07 09:18 -0700
Message-ID<XnsA69A5EACF5AECtaustingmail@69.16.179.42>
In reply to#453272
"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote in
news:nt83ja$t3d$1@dont-email.me: 

> On 10/7/16 1:12 AM, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
>> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) wrote in
>> news:oEnuB0.KBu@kithrup.com:
>>
>>> In article <nt62fu$ust$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Is Captain Tagon really dead ?
>>>
>>> Did we see his body?
>>>
>> Let's not forget, we've had characters dead _and buried_ who
>> came back in the past. If we had a body, it would only prove
>> he's still alive.
>>
> 
> 
>      While it might run counter to many tropes, I'm on the side
>      saying 
> Tagon's dead, dead, dead. I love Tagon, I hate the idea that
> he's dead, but sometimes you go into a situation knowing that
> death is what's coming for you, and the question is what will
> that death accomplish. If his death accomplishes his goal (and
> the heat-exchangers don't die) it'll be a good death.
> 
That wouldn't surprise me in the least for this particular comic. 
Still, it wouldn't especially surprise me if he weren't dead, either.

Which is a great compliment to Howard Taylor. Few storytellers are 
caapable of such a feat.

-- 
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
    -- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

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#453333

FromJoy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
Date2016-10-07 22:43 -0300
Message-ID<5ojgvbdt6kprhsd48mjuob9b52ams6oub1@4ax.com>
In reply to#453242
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 04:40:12 GMT, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David
Goldfarb) wrote:

> Did we see his body?

If we had his body, he could be restored.  He was vaporized.

But Petey was watching . . .  

-- 
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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#453595

FromLynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Date2016-10-10 15:01 -0500
Message-ID<ntgs29$1pn$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#453333
On 10/7/2016 8:43 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 04:40:12 GMT, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David
> Goldfarb) wrote:
>
>> Did we see his body?
>
> If we had his body, he could be restored.  He was vaporized.
>
> But Petey was watching . . .

Hasn't Petey resurrected Tagon once already ?

Lynn

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