Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2004 10:28:51 am PDT #928 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2004 10:32:06 am PDT #929 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Isn't penguin "milk" semi-digested fish bits that they puke back up into the chick's beaks? I can see how that might not go over so well with the grocery-buying public. Well, unless one hit the jackpot with a fad diet craze in southern California.
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 10:39:24 am PDT #930 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
My first worlldcon (first of any kind, really) was Iguana Con in Phoenix, which was the next year after Miami. Robert Forward had a great presentation about "Life on a Neutron Star."
Did anyone mention Forward for hard science? If not, consider it done now.
I want to see tommyrot milk a penguin. Mammals have dominated that market for way too long.
DCJensen - Jun 29, 2004 10:41:48 am PDT #931 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Their milk makes terrible cheese?
Well, it's more that it's difficult to make penguin cheese with a complete lack of penguin milk.
That's being logical. Penguin milk is metaphysical.
-t - Jun 29, 2004 10:43:36 am PDT #932 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Forward did Dragon's Egg, right? I love that.
Unfortunately, I just read an anthology of hard science fiction that has forewords and introductions explaining why each story is hard science fiction and why anything that isn't hard sf is crap, and it made me unable to think about the subject rationally.
But I can say that I love Brust so much that I spent years reading Jack Chalker novels because I thought he wrote To Reign in Hell. I was so relieved when I realized my mistake, and so grateful to rediscover Brust!
tommyrot - Jun 29, 2004 10:59:59 am PDT #933 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I want to see tommyrot milk a penguin. Mammals have dominated that market for way too long.
Well, some cultures talk about something known as "man-milk."
Penguin milk is metaphysical.
Or rather, the non-existence of penguin milk is a... a... metaphor or symbolic or something of something.
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 11:10:14 am PDT #934 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
-t,
I am nearly ready to say that I am not altogether fond of Brust's work.
Feathers! I say that am close upon that opinion. It grows nigh.
I hereby halve the distance to it. And halve it yet again.
Yet, I retreat. An entire novel of such constructions is sometimes too long, but the net effect is fun.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 11:11:38 am PDT #935 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::regards Gus with suspicion::
Gus - Jun 29, 2004 11:15:18 am PDT #936 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
::regards ita with a cool-as-a-cucumber crooked eyebrow::
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2004 11:21:46 am PDT #937 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::recoils slightly from the crooked cucumber::
BRUST IS THE BOMB!!!
::regains composure::