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2021-02-18

by shaenon on February 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Off to the Fair
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  1. David B Huber
    February 18, 2021, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    When Nick gets his hands on these two…

    Oh, wait! He doesn’t have to!

  2. Moe Lane
    February 18, 2021, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    “Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.”

    • Foradain
      February 18, 2021, 1:39 am | # | Reply

      Speaker-to-Animals, IIRC, from the novel *Ringworld*.

      Compare and contrast the duelling customs of the Dragaeran Empire, even when the duel is informal, as in the exchange begun on page 35 (location 768) of Paarfi of Roundwood’s *The Phoenix Guards* (translation courtesy of Stephen Brust)

      (I considered quoting this exchange, but the several pages it takes made this seem excessive ^_^ )

      • alazana
        February 18, 2021, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

        Steven Brust is awesome.

      • sheer_falacy
        February 18, 2021, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

        To be fair, Paarfi could make that Kzin sentence take several pages, too. He has a gift for words, and that gift is quantity.

    • davidbreslin101
      February 18, 2021, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      If I remember rightly, Wu’s challenge is a thing of poetry, including the phrase “Since we can’t share a Universe in peace…”

  3. Towering Barbarian
    February 18, 2021, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Nobody is dumber than an intellectual who pontificates outside her field out competence. Ginny’s just lucky she didn’t try saying that to Mel. ^o^

    • kiralamouse
      February 18, 2021, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      She probably wouldn’t say that to Mel, any more than Unity – she’s got a healthy respect for known chaos agents. Faceless minions, on the other hand…

      • Towering Barbarian
        February 18, 2021, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, but until she’s introduced to Mel Mel would just be another faceless minion.

    • OneUniverse
      February 18, 2021, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      “Blueberry pancakes” doesn’t work on Mell, so Ginny’d probably try distraction with a shiny, big weapon.

      • OneUniverse
        February 18, 2021, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

        Or was it “waffles”?

  4. Urlance Woolsbane
    February 18, 2021, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    A triumph of cynicism and brute force over romance and intellect.

    • kiralamouse
      February 18, 2021, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      Now I’m gonna have Craig Ferguson’s lyrics to the Doctor Who theme in my head all day.

  5. nebulousrikulau
    February 18, 2021, 3:22 am | # | Reply

    When all of your problems can be solved by hitting them on the head, all of your unloaded weapons start to look like a hammer.

    or something like that.

  6. Robert Nowall
    February 18, 2021, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Two down, three to go. And Baron M. is still hooked into the server, so that leaves two.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      February 19, 2021, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      I assume you use the word “hooked” advisedly.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 19, 2021, 6:28 am | # | Reply

        I think he would appreciate it if I meant it that way.

  7. John Richard Andrew Leslie Victor(etc)
    February 18, 2021, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    My bet is on Tip and Nick. Either could take BOTH, E-Z. And Sweetheart may want a
    taste or two of the Chosen.

    They can be transported dragged behind the chopper,OK while aireborne….. landings might smarten the oafs a bit.

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  8. Mooring
    February 18, 2021, 10:39 am | # | Reply

    Oh my god I just realized this plotline has a reasonable chance of ending with a Vegas Wedding.

    • mickeyjf
      February 18, 2021, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      A group wedding. And what are the odds that the A-sig agents are one of the happy couples?

    • Tiff Hudson
      February 18, 2021, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently you can get the Elvis wedding, the Little Person Elvis wedding, and the Furry wedding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNinRzhRomk), but not the Little Person Furry Elvis wedding. Give ’em time.

  9. StClair
    February 18, 2021, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

    The few many, the proud, the dumb.

  10. notStanley
    February 18, 2021, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

    reminds me of the $5 crypto

    https://xkcd.com/538/

  11. Shadowmehr
    February 18, 2021, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

    I am reminded of a quote I read once (unknown author): never argue with idiots – they’ll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 18, 2021, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve used that quote here and there for the last 20 years or so. I may have used it here in the comments, which may or may not be where you saw it. I also have no idea where it originated.

  12. BMunro
    February 18, 2021, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

    This why there are separate rolls for intelligence and wisdom.

    • Towering Barbarian
      February 18, 2021, 11:12 pm | # | Reply

      Very true ^_^

  13. Tiff Hudson
    February 18, 2021, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

    Virginia, something you would have learned early in the Bible Belt is that there are three rules for reasoning with stupid people: Don’t bother. Don’t bother. Don’t bother.

    • Tiff Hudson
      February 18, 2021, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      Or if you prefer, you can use the quote often attributed to Twain: “Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.”

      Then there’s The Waco Kid’s “People of the Land” speech, which is so apt that in my government office we would simply say, “The common clay of the New West,” and everyone would know what we meant.

    • Towering Barbarian
      February 18, 2021, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

      In this case Virginia is the stupid person. “Never throw manure at an armed man!” as Larry Niven would say! 🙂

  14. Andy4Hire
    February 18, 2021, 6:07 pm | # | Reply

    I like Dr. Lee, but there’s some nice poetry to her getting hit on the head with a weapon that wasn’t meant to be used that way, considering her own history of hitting people on the head with weapons that aren’t meant to be used that way. (So what if it didn’t happen to this Dr. Lee in this continuity? One of her did it somewhere. I’m still counting it.)

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