I have decided to name a slightly dim-witted British Army lieutenant in Goa after one of my blog readers. Here in comments, leave a brief explanation of why you should be immortalized in Tourbillon. Around Tuesday I’ll make a poll out of the answers, and we’ll vote in the winner of this fabulous Tuckerization.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your comment engines.
Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there.
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mcurry |
| 2008-10-11 14:08 (UTC) |
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| alton |
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I should be a character in Tourbillon because then the fact that I am also a character in Green would provide endless hours of confusion as readers tried to figure out how the two worlds were connected.
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| etcet |
| 2008-10-11 14:09 (UTC) |
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[Bad Sagan Vox]
Tourbillions and billions of atoms make up each gear, and tourbillions of gears themselves make up the cosmos itself. In the face of such overwhelming complexity, one need remember, in order to make an apple pie, one must first invent the universe.
After all, pies and gears are both of a similar shape, and in the hands of a skilled chef, the detentes themselves mesh deliciously.
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Also, in completely unrelated news, I listen to a fair amount of Goa trance</i>, which makes excellent driving music. (I recommend the group Infected Mushroom.)
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How many LJ flist members and readers of yours have a five-year-old son and three-year-old daughter who associate their own foundling knowledge of steampunk with "Jay Lake! Jay Lake!" and "I want to play Yahtzee wif hee-yum [in her darling Southern accent]"?
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| jeffsoesbe |
| 2008-10-11 15:42 (UTC) |
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I should be a character in Tourbillon because:
1) The original form of my family name, Soulsby, is an excellent name for a dim-witted British Army Lieutenant. Listen to how "soulsby" just rolls off the tongue...
2) I've always wanted to visit Goa!
- yeff
Edited at 2008-10-11 03:43 pm (UTC)
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| fledgist |
| 2008-10-11 15:42 (UTC) |
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When I left Jamaica, the last acquaintance I saw was Morris Cargill. Morris Cargill was tuckerized in The Man With The Golden Gun. If you tuckerize me you'll have a tuckerization connection with James Bond.
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The character is dim-witted. And, as everybody knows, conservatives are dim-witted. I am a conservative, therefore the character should be named after me. Q.E.D.
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| etcet |
| 2008-10-11 19:31 (UTC) |
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You disappear in a puff of your own logic by making that argument, you realize. ;-)
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| controuble |
| 2008-10-11 15:47 (UTC) |
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I may not be an Army lieutenant, but it would be type-casting in all other regards as I must be slightly dim-witted to even think of commenting in this thread.
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| mevennen |
| 2008-10-11 16:19 (UTC) |
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Hey, Tuckerise me and I'll Tuckerise you in the next Chen. You'll get to go to Hell and everything!
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"Stanley" is much more a dim-witted English name than "Soulsby." It is THE dim-witted English name, either surname or Christian, especially for an army lieutenant. Add the "Stephen" and you can have superiors calling him "Stephens" as if they think that is his surname, and since he is so dim-witted and brown-nosery, he wouldn't even think to try to correct them. He'd also think Goa was part of Hong Kong...
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| jaylake |
| 2008-10-11 20:48 (UTC) |
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For a deal like that, I can certainly make you a navvy in the mad Doctor Ottweil's tunneling project! Close as I can come in this book-world to sending you to hell. You might have to be a boy, though.
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| mevennen |
| 2008-10-12 10:11 (UTC) |
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I have no issue with being a boy. You're on!
Do you mind being a tourist?
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| gigica |
| 2008-10-11 17:40 (UTC) |
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...because on more than one occasion I have worn my shirt backwards or inside out.
To work.
'Nuff said.
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You should name the lieutenant after me, because my last name is so long that it alone will take up at least half a line of text; imagine the anguish of people forced to repeat the entire thing multiple times in a conversation.
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| wbledbetter |
| 2008-10-11 18:13 (UTC) |
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Hmmm...I was able to track "Ledbetter" back to 17th century England, so it has been there at least that long. But the best reason is because if this dim-witted Army lieutenant dies a horrible, gruesome death in say...oh a fiery explosion or gets eaten by sharks, then all those people who would like to see me come to some terrible end would buy your book. I bet my ex-wife would buy a hundred copies!
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| thefaeway |
| 2008-10-11 20:33 (UTC) |
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Because not only do I share a first name with one of England's greatest soccer player, but I also have absolutely no English blood in me whatsoever. What great fun would it be to have a Scottish-(last)named Army Lt. in the British Army? Especially one with distant relation to Bloody Mary? :D
Furthermore- it would ring true with Escapement, having the Scots work with the Brits.
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Oooh, I want this! But I've got a Scottish name, dagnabit.
I offer bribes of home baked shortbread.
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Is your lieutenant female? Cause if not, then Wallace is a *GREAT-FANTABULOUS* name for a dim-wit Brit. Really! And I can pull a sympathy card, because, after all, I *thought* I may have had cancer when you had your macaroni fandangle, so we're kinda related in that respect, and so therefore, you could kinda Tuckerize yourself in a slightly weird and convoluted way. (If you follow that, then I win outright!) And if none of those reasons work, I'll come up with a hundred more and surely, somewhere in there, the desperation will come through and I'll just wear you down with my begging and pleading.... and oh yeah, my winning smile! *dazzle, dazzle*
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| goulo |
| 2008-10-12 06:09 (UTC) |
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Because my full name Russell Swayne Williams could sound sort of fancy and British. Plus I've visited India (although we bypassed Goa). And if you find a publisher who'd pay for it, I'd translate the novel into Esperanto.
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| kproche |
| 2008-10-12 23:52 (UTC) |
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Because you know just how *good* I'd look in that uniform.
Plus, I make really good Giant Toast.
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| tillyjane |
| 2008-10-13 01:43 (UTC) |
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Me, because you know whose hole your toad is hiding in...
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| skidspoppe |
| 2008-10-13 23:46 (UTC) |
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As a university teacher... one who will be teaching a course in the history of science fiction, a mention in the book will ensure you get talked about with regularity amongst the past masters :)
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