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Re: Honor Harrington and the Aeslin Mice

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In article <67t3sdtu01km9nt8ojehua3od12bai21i1@4ax.com>,
J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 04:38:39 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <vmq2sdpaea4gqu12ep03i6vr02vll1biuc@4ax.com>,
>>J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 01:41:02 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>>>Heydt) wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <7tc2sdha4mb9i5n75epat87fevbcr3u676@4ax.com>,
>>>>J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> 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.  I
>>>>>doubt that any armore that can be carried by a mouse would be
>>>>>effective against a weapon that can kill an armored human.
>>>>
>>>>No.  But it could make a cat* think twice about attacking the
>>>>armed and armoured mouse.
>>>>
>>>>_____
>>>>* With the exception of some of the brain-damaged cats who have
>>>>lived with James.
>>>
>>>And Honor Harrington's cat, which has successfully attacked armed
>>>humans on several occasions. And that was _before_ he started packing
>>>heat.
>>
>>From everything I know about her treecat, which is damn little,
>>it has more paws and more intelligence.  It would attack an armed
>>human because it knew it could take one out.  The brain-damaged
>>cat would attack an armed human because it didn't know any
>>better.
>
>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.

Gosh.  Reminds me of somebody who used to post on USENET (no
names).  I once said of him, "He is the neighborhood pit bull,
who if he sees me will savage me."  I would never have compared
him to a cat.

-- 
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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