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We've Lost Another - TheTwisted1 - 12-27-2008
Leo Frankowski, author of the Adventures of Conrad Stargard series (AKA the Cross-time Engineer series), died on December 25. He was working on the last Conrad Stargard novel.
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--The Twisted One
"If you
wish to converse with me, define your
terms."
--Voltaire
- Star Ranger4 - 12-27-2008
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
- Evil Midnight Lurker - 12-27-2008
The man was a complete (and possibly completely unaware) chauvinist, but damn could he write the adventure novels. ;.;
--Sam
"If that's art, then art is dirty and weird!"
- Bob Schroeck - 12-28-2008
Well, crap. Who else are we losing this week?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- NotDavies - 12-28-2008
Why did he ask? Oh, why, oh, why, oh, why did he ask?
Chris Davies.
- Sofaspud - 12-29-2008
Wait, we lost Chris Davies -too-? Dammit!
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
- Foxboy - 12-29-2008
Spud? You're confusing his .sig for a bit of news there.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
- Sofaspud - 12-29-2008
...
*looks very sheepish*
Oops.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
- Star Ranger4 - 12-29-2008
Indeed. Chris is actually refering to the well known fact that even when all is lost, the one thing you DONT want to do is say "well, It cant get any
worse..." because that will inspire the universe to find a way that it CAN get worse!
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
- Bob Schroeck - 12-29-2008
I think even the most cursory linguistic analysis will indicate that my exclamation was somewhat on the opposite side from "it can't get worse."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
- NotDavies - 12-29-2008
Actually, I was referring to the less-well-known and frankly more frightening fact that the one who asks "who's next" ... is often next.
Chris Davies.
- robkelk - 12-30-2008
Quote:Well, crap. Who else are we losing this week?http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008 ... -obit.html]Freddie Hubbard - some great jazz will be heard no more...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
- Bob Schroeck - 12-31-2008
I just heard -- we lost playwright Harold Pinter last week, too.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.