I suspect that you are thinking of TH White, not EB White, in re talking animals. But lots of people have written of such. As a child I was very fond of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle stories; when slightly older I devoured Walter Brooks’ Freddy the Pig books.
Why would I be thinking of T.H. White? I’m thinking of E.B. White who wrote Charlotte’s Web and the Trumpet of the Swan (and Stuart Little, although being the literal apoetic kid I was I always figured Stuart Little was human). T.H. White wrote The Once and Future King.
There are lots of books about talking animals and there are lots of authors who are referred to by two initials and their last names. But limited intersection. C.S. Lewis felt like a stretch for me.
>”I suspect when they said “Charlie Sierra”, they were thinking of C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia.”
Does the “they” refer to me? Or was there a character named Charlie Sierra who appeared earlier. … I was merely speculating. I barely remember Echo Bravo. Have there been many others of the agents with Nato Alphabet names?
Yes, “they” refers to you, simply because I didn’t know whether to use “he” or “she”.
I don’t know anyone offhand named Charlie Sierra, so I figured you were offering an as-yet-unknown character whose initials would match an author whose initials were C.S., and C.S. Lewis came immediately to mind, as there were lots of talking animals in Narnia.
Echo Bravo is the only alphabet-named character that sticks out in my mind. We’ve seen him several times, which says a lot for his ability to stay alive and not get extirpated.
Okay…. to clarify. I wondered what Echo Bravo might stand for. It’s obviously E.B. in Nato alphabet. Seeing Alfa Alfa, A.A. made me think of A.A. Milne and E.B. White, so I wondered about writers, (D.H. Lawrence, W.H Auden, etc…. Um, wasn’t there a Wall Street Journal Meta-Crossword Contest on that theme about a year ago…. oops, wrong forum….) and as to why A.A. Milne and E.B.White…. well, they were Children authors and fitting the theme of non-human intelligence wrote of animals/toys. Thought what others there could be and figure maybe C.S. Lewis but that somehow doesn’t seem to be the right ilk….. not sure why not.
Il always thought Echo bravo was EB as in.. Emile Bravo, of Spirou’s fame. Who was edited by AA(NAL), best known as the association, which in turn edited some authors with initials as name (Gébé or David B.)
I almost believed in that theory until I remember underground french/belgian/Swiss comics cannot be referred to in an american comics, unless the target audience is the one who would have a knowledge of it, which led me to the several times I didn’t got a joke/reference because *I* am the one who doens’t have enough knwoledge to understand the anglo-american nerd references…
cough *I’m caught in self cultural centrism* cough
Wait, wait, if she likes the way he thinks it seems like they’d be resolving that tension pretty darn quick, and then… well, it’s just … hmmm. I was going to say self-defeating but it’s totally not. It might be more appropriate to say, they might find a cure for their mutual delusion.
Going to bed with someone you like going to bed with is not nearly as difficult as it once may have seemed. But If you can also wake up with someone you like to wake up with, you win.
And with bonus points if they’re the same person (or the same people, depending on your sexual preference).
Mayhaps she wants sexual tension, but not sex itself. It’s like a dog chasing a car – they don’t want the car, they want the chase. If the car stops and lets them catch it, they’re disappointed.
Is this gonna be one of those things where she realizes that what she’s doing is bad and them has to turn on him?
No, they’ll probably wind up doing the right thing without even realizing it.
She’s been watching X-Files, huh?
Or reading Monster of the Week, maybe?
http://www.shaenon.com/monsteroftheweek/
How many seasons will it take before “An alien stole my baby?!”
I for one am completely ready for evil Scully and Mulder to be a thing here.
Dear gods, we have a female version.
This might end well enough.
Or they could reproduce, which would be a result more destructive than the H.T. gestalt.
Alfa Alfa?
He’s some agent and she’s an agent of very little brain?
Reckon she’s going to end up as gerbil food?
Or transformed into an Italian sportscar that needs lots of expensive service.
If they run into Dr. Lee, that might be true
Oh! Alfalfa…. *dope slap to me*
She’s quite the Rascal, I hear…
Yes. The only reason it was spelled that way that I could imagine.
So are these supposed to be references to White and Milne?
Or was that apparent to everyone else years ago…?
So who as wrote about talking animals? Charlie Sierra?
I don’t know about everyone else, but I missed it. Good catch.
A near miss for agent Juliet Juliet Romeo …pity Tolkien only had a talking tree.
Oops! how’d I do That?
Juliet Romeo Romeo
I suspect that you are thinking of TH White, not EB White, in re talking animals. But lots of people have written of such. As a child I was very fond of Hugh Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle stories; when slightly older I devoured Walter Brooks’ Freddy the Pig books.
I suspect when they said “Charlie Sierra”, they were thinking of C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia.
Why would I be thinking of T.H. White? I’m thinking of E.B. White who wrote Charlotte’s Web and the Trumpet of the Swan (and Stuart Little, although being the literal apoetic kid I was I always figured Stuart Little was human). T.H. White wrote The Once and Future King.
There are lots of books about talking animals and there are lots of authors who are referred to by two initials and their last names. But limited intersection. C.S. Lewis felt like a stretch for me.
>”I suspect when they said “Charlie Sierra”, they were thinking of C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia.”
Does the “they” refer to me? Or was there a character named Charlie Sierra who appeared earlier. … I was merely speculating. I barely remember Echo Bravo. Have there been many others of the agents with Nato Alphabet names?
Yes, “they” refers to you, simply because I didn’t know whether to use “he” or “she”.
I don’t know anyone offhand named Charlie Sierra, so I figured you were offering an as-yet-unknown character whose initials would match an author whose initials were C.S., and C.S. Lewis came immediately to mind, as there were lots of talking animals in Narnia.
Echo Bravo is the only alphabet-named character that sticks out in my mind. We’ve seen him several times, which says a lot for his ability to stay alive and not get extirpated.
Okay…. to clarify. I wondered what Echo Bravo might stand for. It’s obviously E.B. in Nato alphabet. Seeing Alfa Alfa, A.A. made me think of A.A. Milne and E.B. White, so I wondered about writers, (D.H. Lawrence, W.H Auden, etc…. Um, wasn’t there a Wall Street Journal Meta-Crossword Contest on that theme about a year ago…. oops, wrong forum….) and as to why A.A. Milne and E.B.White…. well, they were Children authors and fitting the theme of non-human intelligence wrote of animals/toys. Thought what others there could be and figure maybe C.S. Lewis but that somehow doesn’t seem to be the right ilk….. not sure why not.
Il always thought Echo bravo was EB as in.. Emile Bravo, of Spirou’s fame. Who was edited by AA(NAL), best known as the association, which in turn edited some authors with initials as name (Gébé or David B.)
I almost believed in that theory until I remember underground french/belgian/Swiss comics cannot be referred to in an american comics, unless the target audience is the one who would have a knowledge of it, which led me to the several times I didn’t got a joke/reference because *I* am the one who doens’t have enough knwoledge to understand the anglo-american nerd references…
cough *I’m caught in self cultural centrism* cough
I started speculating about White yesterday, but I didn’t catch Milne. Well spotted.
Wait, wait, if she likes the way he thinks it seems like they’d be resolving that tension pretty darn quick, and then… well, it’s just … hmmm. I was going to say self-defeating but it’s totally not. It might be more appropriate to say, they might find a cure for their mutual delusion.
Going to bed with someone you like going to bed with is not nearly as difficult as it once may have seemed. But If you can also wake up with someone you like to wake up with, you win.
And with bonus points if they’re the same person (or the same people, depending on your sexual preference).
It’s about the journey, not the destination. Sexual tension can be enjoyable even if you know how it’ll end!
If it weren’t, it wouldn’t be so bloody prevalent throughout stories everywhere.
Mayhaps she wants sexual tension, but not sex itself. It’s like a dog chasing a car – they don’t want the car, they want the chase. If the car stops and lets them catch it, they’re disappointed.
I’ve watched it happen, and I’ve never quite worked out whether that’s disappointment or confusion.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Confusion leading to disappointment?
Ah, the bargain basement Chinese-knock-off-assembled-by-slave-labor-and-containing-toxic-chemicals version of Scully and Mulder.
Maybe she’s Ira’s niece, the one who loved “The Last Starfigher.”
Please tell me you’re the Alfa Alfa delivery man.
And we have a winner!
As great-gramma Geisenhoner used to say, ” Fur effery pot der iss a lid!”
Well, someone’s just asking to be eaten by giant gerbils.
The sexual tension will arise when they realize that he’s into tentacles and she’s into stainless steel.
Tentacles and stainless steel sounds like a good start for a calamari dinner.
In a world of mad scientists, it shouldn’t be too hard to find someone to whip up some Doc Ock style robo-tentacles.
Ooooh, liniment closet. I wonder what’s in there, since apparently they don’t make Sloan’s anymore.
IcyHot and Tiger Balm, I’d reckon.
Absorbine, none of that wimpy Absorbine Jr. weak sauce.
Could’a been worse. Either of them could’a wound up partnered with the Red Knight.
He didn’t pass the test. So he’s probably picking walnuts in the rain.
Finding a way to make extirpation even more unpleasant for the others.
Indeed.
The mission is always first with Echo Bravo, but Tigerlily and Jonah showed sex is in zeroth place and avoiding extirpation in minus-first place.
Haven’t these two met before?
Is this Artie in a new human suit? (“Alfalfa”)
Or Mr Green playing at being Number 1?
Two rookies?
Echo Bravo may be newly transferred to this department, but he’s hardly a rookie.