Sarcastic answers to Naming Names

> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote:

> For the IF, "Homocidal Ragheads in Space", or

"Jihad, it's not for the illiterate any more!"

"Like the Taliban, but with starships!"

"More Emirs than you can shake a stick at."

"Bringing the 10th century to a planet near you!"

"And you think politics are complex in your country!"

"Really bad place to be a Jew."

"Valiantly striving to achieve what Hitler failed at."

"So Ecumenicism isn't our strong point... "

"We're tired of living within the strike radius of an
F-16 from Israel."

"Where'd my apartment complex go??"

> For "How would you describe the AE", the answers

"Look Mommy, Libertarians!"

"Freakin' Wierdos"

"Like Hong Kong, but less organized."

"It would be a Great Power if it could just secure a stable oxygen supply... "

"Definitely NOT like Singapore."

"Let's put it this way: They tolerate Old Foul Ron."

"I need a handful of Motrin."

> "Bringing the 10th century to a planet near you!"

16th Century, I think (After Hegira). Right now I've got "The Sultanate in
2190" but due to the AH dating, I'm not happy with that.

> "Like Hong Kong, but less organized."

The comparison with Ankh-Morpork just hit me this afternoon, actually.
But I invented the AE (not all the sovereignities, of course) around 1983,
well before I heard of Discworld.

> "It would be a Great Power if it could just secure a

<grin> Lots of oxygen in that cometary ice...

> "Let's put it this way: They tolerate Old Foul Ron."

You're thinking of Jack Old Ron, who does *not* have the equivalent of Foul
Old Ron's Smell. Not that it matters, he's got his own asteroid.