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| Started by | J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2018-10-10 21:58 -0400 |
| Last post | 2018-10-13 05:53 -0700 |
| Articles | 5 on this page of 25 — 8 participants |
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Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-10 21:58 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-11 04:10 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 20:29 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 19:46 -0500
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 22:27 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-12 02:38 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 23:03 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-11 23:13 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 13:21 -0500
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-12 11:37 -0700
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-10-13 10:07 -0500
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-10-16 21:31 -0700
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-12 18:45 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-11 22:55 -0700
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 19:55 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 01:41 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-12 23:48 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 04:38 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-13 09:39 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-13 14:12 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) - 2018-10-15 22:26 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-15 21:05 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-16 01:45 +0000
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-15 23:41 -0400
Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-13 05:53 -0700
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| From | mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) |
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| Date | 2018-10-15 22:26 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <Eu8xD.576390$tK2.114494@fx42.iad> |
| In reply to | #500386 |
In article <67t3sdtu01km9nt8ojehua3od12bai21i1@4ax.com>, J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >Can't argue with any of that. Reminds of a cat I knew. There was one >person on Earth who that cat loved and who could submit it to all >manner of indignities. Anybody else seeing it coming would cross the >street to avoid getting in attack range. Sounds like my mother's cat Rhondabell. We were always told, don't try to pet the cat, don't go near the cat, you'll regret it. (She was an outside cat in the country, and wasn't easily approached, anyway, except by my mother.) Dang cat brought her a present one day ... A freshly killed coral snake. -- Mike Van Pelt | "I don't advise it unless you're nuts." mvp at calweb.com | -- Ray Wilkinson, after riding out Hurricane KE6BVH | Ike on Surfside Beach in Galveston
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| From | J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-10-15 21:05 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <h6easd1m0ri2t5k4k0g86qbo7vjosjve1k@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #500689 |
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 22:26:44 GMT, mvp@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) wrote: >In article <67t3sdtu01km9nt8ojehua3od12bai21i1@4ax.com>, >J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>Can't argue with any of that. Reminds of a cat I knew. There was one >>person on Earth who that cat loved and who could submit it to all >>manner of indignities. Anybody else seeing it coming would cross the >>street to avoid getting in attack range. > >Sounds like my mother's cat Rhondabell. We were always told, >don't try to pet the cat, don't go near the cat, you'll regret >it. (She was an outside cat in the country, and wasn't easily >approached, anyway, except by my mother.) > >Dang cat brought her a present one day ... > >A freshly killed coral snake. The time that my mother's cat (different cat, this one was nice as he could be to people but death on animals) set out to make lunch out of a rattlesnake my father panicked and spoiled the cat's fun by killing the snake. OTOH, I don't know that the cat had ever fought a rattlesnake before so maybe my Dad made the right decision.
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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
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| Date | 2018-10-16 01:45 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <pGo4v7.8LI@kithrup.com> |
| In reply to | #500689 |
In article <Eu8xD.576390$tK2.114494@fx42.iad>, Mike Van Pelt <mvp@web1.calweb.com> wrote: >In article <67t3sdtu01km9nt8ojehua3od12bai21i1@4ax.com>, >J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>Can't argue with any of that. Reminds of a cat I knew. There was one >>person on Earth who that cat loved and who could submit it to all >>manner of indignities. Anybody else seeing it coming would cross the >>street to avoid getting in attack range. > >Sounds like my mother's cat Rhondabell. We were always told, >don't try to pet the cat, don't go near the cat, you'll regret >it. (She was an outside cat in the country, and wasn't easily >approached, anyway, except by my mother.) > >Dang cat brought her a present one day ... > >A freshly killed coral snake. Ours were all indoor cats, and never got to kill anything. No, I am wrong; J-L was an outdoor cat and liked to climb trees and leap from one to the other, catching birds in mid-flight. Gwenhwyfar, however, recreated a nursery rhyme once by scaring the wits out of a mouse hiding under the throne of the Princess of the Mists. (It got away.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/
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| From | J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2018-10-15 23:41 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <99nasd9fv3o9dfbcg1m4gm1j9q9fihtqq6@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #500708 |
On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 01:45:07 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >In article <Eu8xD.576390$tK2.114494@fx42.iad>, >Mike Van Pelt <mvp@web1.calweb.com> wrote: >>In article <67t3sdtu01km9nt8ojehua3od12bai21i1@4ax.com>, >>J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: >>>Can't argue with any of that. Reminds of a cat I knew. There was one >>>person on Earth who that cat loved and who could submit it to all >>>manner of indignities. Anybody else seeing it coming would cross the >>>street to avoid getting in attack range. >> >>Sounds like my mother's cat Rhondabell. We were always told, >>don't try to pet the cat, don't go near the cat, you'll regret >>it. (She was an outside cat in the country, and wasn't easily >>approached, anyway, except by my mother.) >> >>Dang cat brought her a present one day ... >> >>A freshly killed coral snake. > >Ours were all indoor cats, and never got to kill anything. > >No, I am wrong; J-L was an outdoor cat and liked to climb trees >and leap from one to the other, catching birds in mid-flight. > >Gwenhwyfar, however, recreated a nursery rhyme once by scaring >the wits out of a mouse hiding under the throne of the Princess >of the Mists. (It got away.) One of ours I'll swear thought he was a squirrel. He'd run up trees, leap from branch to branch, etc. Trouble is that then he couldn't figure out how to get down. He finally resolved that by jumping I think. Speaking of jumping, Tigger the Obnoxious Tomcat, when he was rather young, was once seen way up a Southern Yellow Pine, crying piteously. My then girfriend insisted that I get him down forthwith. I tolder "after breakfast", went in, fed the other cats, got breakfast, and when we were done there was Tigger waiting to come in. He must have been 80 feet up that tree and I would really have liked to see how he got down without mangling himself.
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| From | Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> |
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| Date | 2018-10-13 05:53 -0700 |
| Message-ID | <d0a2cc3d-ae16-4701-9ba6-b17f20153526@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #500324 |
On Saturday, 13 October 2018 00:55:05 UTC+1, J. Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 22:55:17 -0700 (PDT), Robert Carnegie > <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote: > > >On Friday, 12 October 2018 03:27:24 UTC+1, J. Clarke wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:46:12 -0500, Lynn McGuire > >> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> >On 10/11/2018 7:29 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 04:10:27 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J > >> >> Heydt) wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> In article <tlatrdprsgk298av6gi55f9j4330vbji7d@4ax.com>, > >> >>> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >>>> Finished up "Uncompromising Honor" last night. Weber finally had some > >> >>>> action on the various wars that are in progress. Once again thousands > >> >>>> and thousands of multiple drive missiles make clear to the Queen's > >> >>>> enemies that they screwed up real bad. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> So over dinner tonight I started "Discount Armageddon, An InCryptid > >> >>>> Novel", which opens with ? really don? think you should put your > >> >>>> hand inside the manticore, dear. You don? know where it? been.? > >> >>>> > >> >>>> I sprayed soda all over everything and then nearly choked to death > >> >>>> laughing. Left the waitress a big tip for having to clean up the > >> >>>> mess. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> Good advice for The People's Republic of Haven, The Mesan Alignment, > >> >>>> The Solarian League, and I forget who all else has gotten hammered in > >> >>>> the 25 years that Honor Harrington has been rampaging through the > >> >>>> enemies of Manticore. > >> >>>> > >> >>>> OK, the Aeslin Mice don't figure much in the above remarks, but I > >> >>>> can't help thinking that "Keep that up and I'll get a pulser-armed > >> >>>> treecat" (Stinker learns to shoot in this one) is a more dire threat > >> >>>> to the Aeslin Mice than "Keep that up and I'll get a cat". > >> >>> > >> >>> The dire threat to the Aeslin Mice is the Covenant of St. George. > >> >>> But you knew that. > >> >> > >> >> Actually I didn't. I am about 20 pages into my first encounter with > >> >> them and so far they have created sufficient chaos for their roomate > >> >> that she has threatened to obtain a cat, which is not to be used as a > >> >> burnt offering. Thus the notion of Nimitz with pulser. Much less > >> >> likely to be successfully used as a burnt offering than an ordinary > >> >> cat. > >> >... > >> > > >> >Does your book have the pictures of the Aeslin mice ? They wear armor > >> >and have spears. > >> > http://seananmcguire.com/fgaeslinmice.php > >> > >> Yes, that was part of the description. I don't think that it would > >> help when dealing with a treecat armed with Manticoran military > >> weapons. > > > ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_armor> - hmm, that's mainly > >for spaceships for some reason. (And, not in Star Wars? I suppose > >that's what a lightsaber is for.) > > Putting a word in front of "armor" doesn't make the armor magic. What if the word is "abracadabra"? > I > doubt that any armore that can be carried by a mouse would be > effective against a weapon that can kill an armored human. > > Ablative armor works by sacrificing itself. The major use is > heat-shields where the time interval over which it needs to function > can be well-defined.
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