I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through 6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally, as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items - when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.
Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through >6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally, >as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items - >when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.
> In article <7098d8dd-d612-4169-82f5-8d747d10d...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
> Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through > >6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally, > >as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items - > >when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.
> >there's an extra page in volume 6 - containing the memorable line, > >"Thought I was the cat here".
> So there is!
> Not to mention Anevka's line, "It's been a while since I wasn't > the strangest thing in the room."
Another thing that might be interesting to some people here.
On the Girl Genius Yahoo! Group, someone just recently asked, "Is anyone else here wondering about how Othar and Ferretina are doing"...
I responded, very diplomatically, I thought, that while this was an interesting story too, just now would not be perhaps the best time to switch to it. Someone then replied to me suggesting that it would be *my fault* if this happened on Monday... I replied and a discussion ensued.
In that discussion, I noted that the Foglios might not have Part 3 of "Revenge of the Weasel Queen" in hand. But, on the other hand, they _do_ have that Trelawney Thorpe adventure that appeared in one of the collections but which isn't on their web site, unlike the other short stories.
In my recent re-reading of the stories in luxurious large convenient print form, I noticed that *that* story was not drawn by Phil Foglio, but by Cheyenne Wright, their colorist. In a *later* volume in the series, the URL of *his* web site was given. So the idea crossed my mind that perhaps the Trelawney Thorpe sequence was _there_.
a visit. While I didn't find _that_ there, the link labelled "Portfolio" _does_ include some GG-related artwork that may be of some interest to some Girl Genius fans.
Heydt) wrote: >In article <7098d8dd-d612-4169-82f5-8d747d10d...@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, >Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: >>I was re-reading my printed copies of the GG TPB for volumes 1 through >>6 - and am eagerly awaiting the opportunity to buy volume 7 locally, >>as the Post Office charges $5 for charging GST on imported items - >>when I noticed a page I didn't remember seeing.
>>there's an extra page in volume 6 - containing the memorable line, >>"Thought I was the cat here".
>So there is!
>Not to mention Anevka's line, "It's been a while since I wasn't >the strangest thing in the room."
>Dorothy J. Heydt >Vallejo, California >djhe...@kithrup.com
I actualy just got GG#6 in the mail yesterday and read it this morning, laughed at those two lines but did not realize I had not seen them before. I did however catch a Terry Pratchett reference I didn't catch online, via a "The Luggage" recreation here
>I actualy just got GG#6 in the mail yesterday and read it this >morning, laughed at those two lines but did not realize I had not seen >them before. I did however catch a Terry Pratchett reference I didn't >catch online, via a "The Luggage" recreation here
>The Amazing Pratchett no less. >JBL
Oops my server belched or something.
I was also going to ask, what the heck is "RHINOHIDING" in the above link? Am I just missing the joke, which isn't unlikely.
>>I actualy just got GG#6 in the mail yesterday and read it this >>morning, laughed at those two lines but did not realize I had not seen >>them before. I did however catch a Terry Pratchett reference I didn't >>catch online, via a "The Luggage" recreation here
>>The Amazing Pratchett no less. >>JBL >Oops my server belched or something.
>I was also going to ask, what the heck is "RHINOHIDING" in the above >link? Am I just missing the joke, which isn't unlikely.
Rhinohiding is an SCA term. In SCA fighting, you're supposed to be honourable and to call your own blows (that is, blows that land on you: if the blow would have killed you if the weapon had been real, you're officially dead; if it would have lost you an arm, you fight with that arm behind your back). No one else, the theory goes, is able to judge whether the blow would have been good or not. But there are those who would rather win than be honourable, and they'll say "Light!" meaning the blow wasn't hard enough ... when it was. Such behavior is called "rhinohiding." The guy must have a hide like a rhinoceros or he would've called that blow.
Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djhe...@kithrup.com
>>I was also going to ask, what the heck is "RHINOHIDING" in the above >>link? Am I just missing the joke, which isn't unlikely.
>Rhinohiding is an SCA term. In SCA fighting, you're supposed to >be honourable and to call your own blows (that is, blows that >land on you: if the blow would have killed you if the weapon had >been real, you're officially dead; if it would have lost you an >arm, you fight with that arm behind your back). No one else, the >theory goes, is able to judge whether the blow would have been >good or not. But there are those who would rather win than be >honourable, and they'll say "Light!" meaning the blow wasn't hard >enough ... when it was. Such behavior is called "rhinohiding." >The guy must have a hide like a rhinoceros or he would've called >that blow.
>Dorothy J. Heydt >Vallejo, California >djhe...@kithrup.com
