@Bibliomancer—Good catch! I guess adding the dog (and the battle axe) makes it original. Or maybe the dog did the cover and cleverly inserted a self-portrait.
I hope the installers used plenty of high-quality weatherstripping on that one curvilinear window in the otherwise straight-edged room, or else the Norman is looking at decades of water-damage problems behind his instrument console.
‘You need to run a grep in the home directory, monkey. You need to grep the home directory, pipe the results to a new text file, and then add THAT to config directory. But do the monkeys ask me? No. I get a scratch behind the ears and a “Good boy”, and then everyone’s back to fussing over operating system compatibility. Well, forget you all anyway.’
Because Spanglish is a mixture of Spanish and English, then Fanglith must be a mixture of English and doggy talk.
“Have you tried arf-arfing the yip-yip through the woofer?”
September 26th, 2016 at 12:29 pm
This cover looks strangely familiar:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=8311
I didn’t know you could plagiarize sci-fi cover art. Looks like Mark Peyton is two-for-two.
September 26th, 2016 at 1:18 pm
Back cover.
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-135796431451137/fanglith-by-john-dalmas-1st-oct-1985-baen-sf-pbo-5.gif
‘Return to Fanglith’. Font problems increasing.
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-135796431451137/return-to-fanglith-by-john-dalmas-1st-aug-1987-baen-sf-pbo-3.gif
‘Return’ back cover. Plot problems increasing.
http://ep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-135796431451137/return-to-fanglith-by-john-dalmas-1st-aug-1987-baen-sf-pbo-5.gif
September 26th, 2016 at 1:31 pm
@Bibliomancer—Good catch! I guess adding the dog (and the battle axe) makes it original. Or maybe the dog did the cover and cleverly inserted a self-portrait.
September 26th, 2016 at 1:35 pm
One of the people on the cover is Fanglish.
Two are not.
Let’s learn how we can find out.
September 26th, 2016 at 1:51 pm
I hope the installers used plenty of high-quality weatherstripping on that one curvilinear window in the otherwise straight-edged room, or else the Norman is looking at decades of water-damage problems behind his instrument console.
September 26th, 2016 at 2:05 pm
“Tell me varlet, do those Lords of Midnight cheat codes work or not?”
September 26th, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Hurry up! I need to check if the SCA Meetup event is on or not.
September 26th, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Tech support for the busy time traveller, at your service!
September 26th, 2016 at 5:48 pm
‘You need to run a grep in the home directory, monkey. You need to grep the home directory, pipe the results to a new text file, and then add THAT to config directory. But do the monkeys ask me? No. I get a scratch behind the ears and a “Good boy”, and then everyone’s back to fussing over operating system compatibility. Well, forget you all anyway.’
September 26th, 2016 at 6:44 pm
Fork you all surely? It’s a t200 tty line terminal btw.
September 26th, 2016 at 8:17 pm
@RayP: not if he’s been neutered. And don’t call me ‘terminal’. 😛
September 27th, 2016 at 1:17 am
Norman’s got a shield with a picture of an axe on it. Isn’t that like wearing a target on your head or painting an iceberg on the side of the Titanic?
September 27th, 2016 at 5:40 am
GSS Admin: Flashback Friday is so popular! I’m thinking of adding Throwback Thursday and Wayback Wednesday and …
Tag Wizard: Log off and get dressed. We’ll be late for the Battle of Hastings Re-enactment!
September 27th, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Fanglith? Wasn’t that a zine published by Richard Bergeron back in the Seventies?
September 28th, 2016 at 2:23 pm
“No! I shall not remove my dog until you have helped me install the new Windows update!”
October 3rd, 2016 at 3:23 pm
FANGL↓TH
October 3rd, 2016 at 5:25 pm
@ Ikari Gendo – Nice one. I used to be a part of the Northshield SCA when I was in college…
The look on the knight’s face is priceless, like he’s so fed up with tech support taking so long…”YES, I already tried Ctrl alt delete!”
September 21st, 2017 at 1:48 am
“AND I turned it off and back on, and restarted the modem and router!”
October 27th, 2017 at 5:52 am
Because Spanglish is a mixture of Spanish and English, then Fanglith must be a mixture of English and doggy talk.
“Have you tried arf-arfing the yip-yip through the woofer?”
October 28th, 2018 at 2:25 am
Evidently the Time Patrol’s affirmative action schemes are getting out of hand….