Oolite Bulletins

ClymAngus wrote:

CommRLock78 wrote:

I have a secret little crush on Rebecca .

One of the more disturbing facts of making romantic overtures to fictional characters is, that in effect you have fallen for various fatty diverse chunks of the authors living brain. I'm not sure his wife will approve you know. She may have dibs.

Oddly enough, I've had a number of female fans admitting a fondness for my character 'Luko' out of ER. Whilst I 'wrote' Rebecca, how you imagine her is very much your own affair, which is why I don't describe their appearance too much. Enjoy your crush.

ClymAngus wrote:

Thus validating all our characters and their wider stories in the process. Thank you Mr D. I knew you wouldn't let us down!

Rebecca does mention a 'little altercation' with the Thargoids and later on in the story, there's a decidedly dodgy fellow trying to flog trumbles...

Diziet Sma wrote:

Drew did a fine job in that regard.. he managed to slip in at least half a dozen nods to Oolite and the community. Heck, I suspect that it was Drew's influence that got Kate Russell to put in a reference to "friendliest place this side of Riedquat" in Mostly Harmless.

Ahem. I couldn't possibly comment.

Diziet Sma wrote:

Are you aware she makes a brief (but pivotal) appearance in Elite: Reclamation?

Rebecca is reminiscing about the 'good ol' days' back when men were real men, women were real women, and Elite ratings were real Elite ratings, thus introducing my current heroine to the wonder that is the classic 'Cobra Mk3'...

It was fun trying to find ways to sneak Oolite references past the sensors/censors. I got away with most of them.

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

It was fun trying to find ways to sneak Oolite references past the sensors/censors. I got away with most of them.

Drew, just out of curiosity: Which references you didn't get away with?

another_commander wrote:

Drew, just out of curiosity: Which references you didn't get away with?

I got pulled on:

Hoopy Casino
Q-Bomb
Fuel-Injectors

Cheers,

Drew.

drew wrote:

Hoopy Casino

The other two aren't surprising, but the hoopy casino originated in Elite, not Oolite.

(Trivia: in theory, planets could also be famous for "hoopy cuisine", "hoopy sit coms", and even "hoopy its hoopy goat burgers". None of them are, of course.)

cim wrote:

drew wrote:

Hoopy Casino

The other two aren't surprising, but the hoopy casino originated in Elite, not Oolite.

(Trivia: in theory, planets could also be famous for "hoopy cuisine", "hoopy sit coms", and even "hoopy its hoopy goat burgers". None of them are, of course.)

I was gonna say that it's probably the gambling reference, this being a game for 13+ (?)...but then again we are flying around murdering each other. Morals are a funny thing...

It's probably because "hoopy" comes from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which presumably is where B&B lifted it from (under the assumption that it was an adjective, possibly because of the -y ending) in the 1980s:

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide wrote:

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

Disembodied wrote:

It's probably because "hoopy" comes from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which presumably is where B&B lifted it from (under the assumption that it was an adjective, possibly because of the -y ending) in the 1980s:

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide wrote:

Hence a phrase which has passed into hitchhiking slang, as in “Hey you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.” (Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

It was only recently, whilst listening to the rebroadcasts, that I realised Hitch-Hiker's must be the source for the first two combat ranks (somehow it had passed me by for 30 years)