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Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice

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In article <ppqoo7$lii$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 10/11/2018 9:38 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> In article <3j10sdla51qtm3eu51sc4l24l66pu34g0d@4ax.com>,
>> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> 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.
>> 
>> No, but it would give an ordinary _Felis domesticus_ paw^h^h^hpause.
>
>I see what you did there.

That was the intention.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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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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