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Wow, how fortunate! Quick, prep herself for surgery!

And Connie gets into the act...

Tha Winnah! in nearly a three way dead heat.

OK the library is playing a trick on Phix, but what's the deal with Connie? Doesn't she normally have eyes?

Opus the Poet wrote:OK the library is playing a trick on Phix, but what's the deal with Connie? Doesn't she normally have eyes?

Connie goes from having normal-appearing eyes, to bare eyeballs rattling around loose in the socket, to just empty eyesockets... often changing from one moment to the next. Blood and other assorted fluids oozing out, optional. Usually it seems to have to do with her mood... calmer moods go with more human-looking eyes... but I suspect she can choose her appearance pretty much as she wishes.

"Elementally, my dear Watson!"

Cheesy1 wrote:Wow, how fortunate! Quick, prep herself for surgery!

It's when she decides to sue herself for malpractice that things get really interesting.

Phix must be asking how to end the theatre of pain inflicted by this motley crew.

Yeah, I know... here's your LP from '85.

Phix goes looking for that corner she keeps hearing about. Lore has it, that they have tea and cookies. She needs tea and cookies. And blankets.

jeffepp wrote:Phix goes looking for that corner she keeps hearing about. Lore has it, that they have tea and cookies. She needs tea and cookies. And blankets.

And an ice pack...

I swear though... I have dreams like this alla time... they make no sense whatsoever and are maddening because logic is completely flipped... nothing happens as it should... indeed, everything happens the exact opposite and no one seems to listen to you or to notice and admit something is wrong.

DilyV wrote:I swear though... I have dreams like this alla time... they make no sense whatsoever and are maddening because logic is completely flipped... nothing happens as it should... indeed, everything happens the exact opposite and no one seems to listen to you or to notice and admit something is wrong.

I think they call that "election season".

What the bloody hell is Nudge doing with an eighteen ninty- something- breech-loading Krupp Coastal gun in this fracas?!? Hell, call in the A-10 Warthogs and be done with it!... Next we'll see a Mk II torpedo blowing through the stacks after Pickle raises the periscope and gets a bearing...

"Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

hey, that cannon got a lot bigger ... is phix having a nightmare???

=-O beaten by Sargent!!

Nikki's show is on iHeart radio, called "Sixx Sense." Affiliate list.

I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

AmriloJim wrote:Phix must be asking how to end the theatre of pain inflicted by this motley crew.

Yeah, I know... here's your LP from '85.

That reminds me, Nikki Sixx has a radio show in the evenings. 107.3 out of Wichita, KS is the only station I can think of off the top of my head that plays it.

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

I specifically avoided the HP books when they came simply because of how popular they were.
I read the Oz books instead. Well, the 5 I could find.

GAH, I didn't recognize Connie wearing normal (relatively) clothes and with her hair styled. I knew I knew her, but I had to look at the page tags to figure out who. This whole situation is beyond weird. And it's probably going to get worse...

AnotherFairportfan wrote:I read Master and Commander because a lot of people i usually trusted (including some New York SF editors) were saying how great the Aubrey/Maturin books were. (And because i like sea novels).

I should have remembered that these were pretty much the same group who were telling me how great the Harry Potter books were.

And they turned out to be second-rate pseudo-Diana Wynne Jones...

One word: Hornblower.

The classics remain the best. That's why they're classics.

Sgt. Howard wrote:What the bloody hell is Nudge doing with an eighteen ninty- something- breech-loading Krupp Coastal gun in this fracas?!? Hell, call in the A-10 Warthogs and be done with it!... Next we'll see a Mk II torpedo blowing through the stacks after Pickle raises the periscope and gets a bearing...

"Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

Pablo's just having fun, perhaps he had a movie binge over the weekend that included Master & Commander and Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows... wonder what we will see tomorrow? Since he seems to be moving up in time, perhaps deuling tanks, a Sherman and Tiger (pick your favorite movie combo)? Or stick with the nautical theme and sink the Bismark- you'll get your torpedoes in the stacks with that one!

Sgt. Howard wrote: "Phix Dear, did you eat Welsh Rarebit before you went to bed? Last time you did that, we had to fetch you out of the Smithsonian where you had crawled into the cockpit of the 'Enola Gay'... you were muttering something about "make 'em glow!" and giggling the whole time..."

She really needs to lay off that stuff - it gives her dreams like that by the BocksCar...

Hey, how often do you get to make a pun using the names of nuclear weapons delivery systems?

One time too many.

This is putting Red Wedding to shame.

Phix is just as confused as I am.

Phix must have fallen asleep reading Patrick O'Brien . . .

--FreeFlier