Tales of the Parodyverse - Possibly related the the Chola Tamil Dynasty, descended from

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Al B. Harper

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Subj: Possibly related the the Chola Tamil Dynasty, descended from one of the "Three Crowned Kings".
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 at 07:22:06 am EST (Viewed 4 times)

Reply Subj: It is isn't it? After the Coromandel Coast, so good for a southern Indian or Sri Lankan character perhaps.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 at 09:10:57 pm EST (Viewed 493 times)

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That is one remarkable piece of family history.

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I was quite chuffed to find that link. I had felt a little un-Australian without a convict ancestor up to that point.

It's not too late to go bushwack someone yourself.

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There were another set of ggg-grandparents located closer to your part of the world (Yorkshire) anyway, and then there were the Paterson, McCarrol, and Cheyne members who hail from further north of the border.

Ah, so recidivism was in your genes long before Robert and Ellen. There were Scots.

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I do know that the family owns a farm that is now under the north sea off the coast of Yorkshire, so come the next ice age we will be rich. Rich!

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There might be oil under it, you could become rich a lot sooner! Either that or a Lovecraftian creature from the depths now lurks there. Both are a win.

The Lovecraftians really have bits of that coast further south, off East Anglia, like the historical Innsmouth. Yorkshire has to settle for lost lands in Gramayre.

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I was disappointed with myself to find I never wrote a tie-in for [Saving the Future].

I'm sure it's not too late. Evil Al B. demands his say, if only in an internal confrontation with normal Al B.

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I've also thought up a potential new Junior member after re-reading another back issue last night.

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I now have two ideas floating around my head for that. Not sure if they fit in with your current line up though (one of them is potentially somewhat superfluous power-wise with the others).

The Juniors aren't the only game in town. Other bands of youthful heroes are also available. besides, what about the adventures of Cody, Beanie, and Fly-Girl at Galactic U? Surely there are other young people there?

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Perhaps there is a senior and junior class?

I think the Junior class in waiting is probably Sam, Mags, and Griffin.

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...the guys who come to stop them whatever the cost, we are called The Lair Legion.â€

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That is neat.

I had genuinely forgotten it and it made me punch the air. Go Legion!

There's another pay-off a bit later on when they are going down against Onslaughter and the regular LL turn up and Hatman gets to growl, "Hands off them. They're Legion!"

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It's good to have ambitions. And role models. Universally.

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Achievable ones generally work out better. Though all I'd really need is a TARDIS...

There was a gret episode of Doctor Who Confidential a few years back when BBC Centre was closing and being sold off. A segment of the "making of" show was devoted to the studios where some clasic episodes had been filmed in the 60s and 70s. A group of fans went exploting them, including (as I recall) then-Doctor David Tennant and then-writers Steven Moffatt and Mark Gaitiss. They did not exactly have permission to take cameras there, so when security came along Tennant turned to the camera crew and companions and called out, "Run!"

Cut to Moffatt talking about this. "I was suddenly ten years old again. When the Doctor turns to you urgently and says 'Run', you run!"

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Again, I want to say yes but I don't remember where or by whom. Maybe it was just the micro-hero version?

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Ah yes, i think from memory the bandage Shoggoth was a microhero.

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Ah, [Hacker9] ran off with Galactivac.

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I often wonder why you shunted him off? Was he too much a similar personality to Danny Lyle to keep around on the same team? Did you just grow sick of him? Or was there no real reason you can recall?

It was natural progression, really. The story as it developed seemed to demand it.

And it wasn't so much shunting him off as setting up his next storyline.

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[The Babel story] has all my strengths and weaknesses, including an improbably romance, sleazy villains, and naked women; the latter assisted by scholarly evidence that female dress in that place and time was basically a scarf.

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I'm sure the scarf was able to be used a multitude of ways.

Duanna shar Ibbish is one of my favourite characters (and would probably hit Vizh's sweet spot too). She raises the narrative question of what does an ex-sacrificial virgin do next? Apart from crimefighting, of course?

Duanna is of course related to the historical high priestess Princess Enheduanna, one of the first women in history whose name has come down to us, and the first writer in history to attach his or her name to her works. She was a mythographer, poet, hymnwriter, record keeper, and autobiographer (from which we know the rest). Daughter of a the founding king of the Babylonian Empire (some say he was Nimrod), sister and pain-in-the-ass of the second, she was in every way the sort of woman one would wish the first author in history to be.

She is arguably also the first cheesecake model:

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Are you allowed a sabbatical?

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That's for academics, but I do have long service leave which I plan to use this year.

That kind of extended break is useful for evaluating career from a detetched perspective.

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Should you feel strong urges to either suicide or circus performing please refer to me first. For bunyip-taming one must first catch your bunyip.

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Thank you IW. The offer really is appreciated. While the black dog does visit from time to time, I've managed to keep him at bay. Certainly, work issues are not worth the hassle or worry of escalating to that level.

Unfortunately, a side effect of depression is to inhibit that kind of discrimination. When contacting someone one planet-width away would be helpful to get an external viewpoint please do so.

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Bunyips are notoriously difficult to trap.

That's what makes them taste so good.