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spud42 wrote:
well you can leave the "head" part off, as dave has been known to use it as smeg, smegging in conjunction with hell.... etc....
That's the bit with the actual … y'know … connotations. A medical term, but … let us pass over this quickly, and move on.

Mind you, it didn't seem to disturb Dutch tennis star Robin Haase, in his quest for sponsorship:
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"Frell!" and its derivatives, Farscape.

"Stomm!" and "Drokk!" both from Judge Dredd.

"E chu ta!" is a Huttese curse-word that shocks C3PO in The Empire Strikes Back
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Malacandra wraps it up and gets the chipper! Other potential expletives could have included "Grud!" (Judge Dredd again), "Frak!" (Battlestar Galactica), and possibly "nerf herder" (also from The Empire Strikes Back).
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Okay...

What's unusual about the sex scene towards the end of the John Varley short "The Phantom of Kansas"? :lol:
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Malacandra wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:41 am
Okay...

What's unusual about the sex scene towards the end of the John Varley short "The Phantom of Kansas"? :lol:
thank you for an enjoyable read. the whole story is up on his website for free....
Call it masturbation orchestrated for two.
lol do clones count i wonder? as neither of them was the "real" Fox , the original that is.
i find my self intrigued by the "Invaders" and that back story, i wonder if he wrote more about this universe he created....
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spud42 wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2017 4:29 pm
Malacandra wrote: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:41 am
Okay...

What's unusual about the sex scene towards the end of the John Varley short "The Phantom of Kansas"? :lol:
thank you for an enjoyable read. the whole story is up on his website for free....
Call it masturbation orchestrated for two.
lol do clones count i wonder? as neither of them was the "real" Fox , the original that is.
i find my self intrigued by the "Invaders" and that back story, i wonder if he wrote more about this universe he created....
Yes, he did. It's called the "Eight Worlds Series", although my knowledge of Varley begins and ends with the short story collection "In The Hall Of The Martian Kings" which includes the one I referred to in my question. The premise is that the Invaders have driven humans off Earth but they have the rest of the solar system, except Jupiter, as living space.

And yes, the unusual thing about this is that the two people are both clones of the same person, one of them sex-changed which is a trivial medical procedure in the 27th century.

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author and title....

experimental space drive, 4 onboard 2 guys 2 gals. highly educated and very strong mental powers inc teleportation.....
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My first thought was Harry Harrison's Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers but I don't remember there being teleportation. Were there space ships in The Tomorrow People?
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definitely a book. do not believe it has ever been turned into a tv show or a movie...
so 2 strikes for ffutures.......

CLUE: originally published in Amazing Stories +/- 4 years of my birthday.....
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CLUE : http://www.graphicine.com/chris-foss-traveller/

one of the titled pictures is the book i am looking for.......
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With a bit of googling and guesswork, I think it's E. E. "Doc" Smith's The Galaxy Primes:

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the Zipper is yours sir... i havent seen it as a physical book... i got it as a free Ebook...
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Thanks … a gaming question, this time: name the source of the quote

“BAD MOVE, SPACE CADET”

(my apologies if this triggers any flashbacks … :) )
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Disembodied wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:59 am
I think it's E. E. "Doc" Smith's The Galaxy Primes:
This has really annoyed me because I recognised the plot and even had in mind it might be Smith, but could I remember it?! I even lost my google-foo.
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Disembodied wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2017 1:38 pm
Thanks … a gaming question, this time: name the source of the quote

“BAD MOVE, SPACE CADET”

(my apologies if this triggers any flashbacks … :) )
lol.

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