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We've Lost Another
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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.
[Here. --The Twisted One "If you wish to converse with me, define your terms." --Voltaire 
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 
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!" 
Well, crap. Who else are we losing this week?
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
Why did he ask? Oh, why, oh, why, oh, why did he ask?
Chris Davies. 
Wait, we lost Chris Davies -too-? Dammit!
--sofaspud --"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs 
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
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*looks very sheepish* Oops. --sofaspud --"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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
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 --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
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.  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
I just heard -- we lost playwright Harold Pinter last week, too.
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. |
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