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Why don't you go by the name ThginkSadim?
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Why would I do something so silly?
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Why wouldnt you?
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Isn't it fun being silly once in a while?
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If so, wouldn't it be even more fun to be silly all the time?
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Can you be silly at work?
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Doesn't work make you FEEL silly sometimes?
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Wouldn't you rather just be a paramecium so your cilia moments would move you more than the silly flutter of your eyelashes [Latin]?
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любой может понять это?
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I can, do you think anybody else can?
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What the hell is going on anyway??
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May I use a Russian to English translator?
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Why don't you just stick a Babel Fish in your ear?
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What is a Babel Fish?
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Are we doing "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" references now?
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Am I the only one that thinks that book was a waste of paper?
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Was the humor too abstruse, the science fiction to capricious, the characters too silly, the story of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy too strange for me to fully appreciate?
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Post by gpackin »

Or do you just prefer hard science fiction?
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Post by umsolopagas »

And maybe a little less frivolity?
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Mangling metaphors of "hard" science fiction, can't I want more meat on the bones of science fiction, even if meat is the softer component than the bones?

Am I doomed to be told "gristle is good for you; eat your peas and cartilage" by fans of books I don't like?

[Will I be ostracized and shunned here in "questions only" if I have these tendon-cies to play with my words now, as I certainly played with my food as a child?]
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Speaking of meat on the bones of SF, did you read any of LMB's Vorkosiverse books?
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[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
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Why can't all space opera be written with the skill of LMB, providing meat, bones to gnaw, marrow and a tasty barbecue sauce?

I wonder...Will there be more to know of Miles?

What is on (or, I suppose, more accurately after) the Horizon for us?
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Why don't you ever play the LMBQG? ;)
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Is there any reason that i should?
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Post by voralfred »

Is there any reason you should not read all of LMB's remarkable books so you can compete in the LMBQG?
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[i]LMB, The Labyrinth [/i]
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