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trboturtle2
Member since Jul-4-09
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Jan-13-15, 01:47 PM (EDT) |
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18. "RE: LB&tB: New Tricks"
In response to message #10
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>>So he appreciates that they look good, but he appreciates that they >>are good more. > >Basically, yes. There was almost certainly a lot of kidding around in >some quarters, as that is endemic to the source - Shirley Yeager and >"a lot of kidding around" kind of go together, for instance, and we >know from New Tricks that Erica Hartmann is capable of causing >mischief even a year and half after the fact and an almost >unfathomable distance away, which, if she learns that it happened, she >will regard as an almost unassailable new personal best. :) But >that's all it was. > >>Also the fact that most of them would technically be under aged for >>him. > >Nothing technical about it in a few cases. For instance, in mid-'43, >when he was there the first time, Lucchini was 11 and Sanya had just >turned 13 (though in fairness, the former was probably already a >semiprofessional lecher). > >>By a good margin. > >Margin, schmargin. When you've been 20 for 400 years, it's not the >same thing as being 400. :) > >--G. >-><- >Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod >Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ >zgryphon at that email service Google has >Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. Well, when he realizes he's old enough to be their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, it helps put things in perspective.
Also, the fact that these ladies have access to heavy weapons doesn't hurt either.... :) Craig
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