posts that I think will get deleted at DN

[Nekhrun]

I think they should be called Arakisers.

[merkin muffley]

Joined: 12 Aug 2010
Posts: 13
Location: Baltimore, MD
Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject:

Clearly they have sourced some ideas from the DE, or the DE authors (maybe just McNelly) had access to the same notes once upon a time.

Well, practically speaking, the Dune Encyclopedia IS the Notes.

Level 1: From the original FH six, body text only. If it's straight prose, there are no outs, it's the authors intent.

Level 2: Quotes and epigrams from the Original 6, including the appendicies.

Why are the appendices or epigrams less canon than the rest of the book? If Irulan wrote the original book, how does that effect the levels? What level are Irulan's versions of her own excerpts? Are the Irulan excerpts on a higher level of canon than the other epigrams?

Obviously, Paul of Dune is on a higher level of canon than Dune, but are the Irulan excerpts in Dune on a higher level of canon than the rest of the books?
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[merkin muffley]

Post subject: KJA and BH, can you tell the difference?

I haven't read any of BH's solo work, so I have know Idea about who did what.

Interesting take. Thanks!

If you sit on one of them until they fall asleep, it feels like a different person.
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SparrowsOfDune is REALLY annoying.

[Nekhrun]

I have know idea what you mean.

[merkin muffley]

Arnoldo posted a picture of the cover of Hellhole. What a miserable ass-kiss. All of that energy, all at the service of the writing of a soulless hack.

Location: Baltimore, MD
Post Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject: Hellhole

I admire your passion and enthusiasm for the works of Kevin J. Anderson. It reminds me of a stint I had working as a prison guard at Jessop. There was an inmate who kept forcing pens, straws, and anything else he could find into his urethra.

One day I asked him, "Why do you keep doing that?"
He said, "Don't knock it 'til you tried it."

I still don't understand why he kept doing that to himself, and I probably never will, but he was very passionate and enthusiastic about it...

Have you ever been to Jessop, Arnoldo?
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[Serkanner]

Arnoldo posted a picture of the cover of Hellhole. What a miserable ass-kiss. All of that energy, all at the service of the writing of a soulless hack.

Location: Baltimore, MD
Post Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:07 pm Post subject: Hellhole

I admire your passion and enthusiasm for the works of Kevin J. Anderson. It reminds me of a stint I had working as a prison guard at Jessop. There was an inmate who kept forcing pens, straws, and anything else he could find into his urethra.

One day I asked him, "Why do you keep doing that?"
He said, "Don't knock it 'til you tried it."

I still don't understand why he kept doing that to himself, and I probably never will, but he was very passionate and enthusiastic about it...

Have you ever been to Jessop, Arnoldo?
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H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

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[merkin muffley]

They erased that one before Arnoldo got a chance to respond. Or, Arnoldo did see it and didn't fight back because he's a coward.

Do they pay Arnoldo, or something?

[inhuien]

In cheese my dear, cheese.

[SandChigger]

In Richard cheese, without a doubt.

arnoldo's so far up their collective anus that he just extends the tip of his nasty little prehensile tail and types with that.

[SandChigger]

I see Oyabun Nicodemus (from MySpace; also a non-active member here) has joined DN and started posting. Good guy, on our side of the divide, but I'm not sure how long he's going to last over there posting stuff like this:

Post subject: I thought the Norma Cenva character stank.

Had she been left has a Human (all be it different) and the inventor of the Holtzmann theory that would have been fine. But to be the FIRST person to discover the prescient properties of Melange, become the founder of the Spacing Guild, inventor of the glow globe a hero of the Bulterian Jihad AND capable of Shape-shifting?!?!?! NO! She was mentioned exactly ONCE in the originals by Leto II and given credit for the Holtzmann theory. Doesn't anyone else think he other achievements would have been worthy for history?? Alexander Bell gets credit for the light bulb, why not Norma for the Glow Globe, a device that is still being used 10,000 years + after its invention? Leto says her name is one that had been lost in time. Serena Butler is remembered and she just had her baby killed. Norma supposedly saved humankind...and not remembered? Then there were he powers. Even Leto II didn't have that kind of power, and Norma was at a WAY earlier evolutionary point then any of the Post-Jihad Atreides. The Norma Cenva ruined the limits of reality within the Duniverse for me.

[Serkanner]

I give him one day till he is freakbanned.

[SandChigger]

That would be nice. Maybe he would post more here, then!

[SandRider]

tell him Bell got the patent on the telephone,
T.A. Edison got the patent on the filament light bulb ...

neither of which "inventions" were actually "invented" by the patent holders ...

do we have a Bitching-About-How-Edison-Fucked-Over-Tesla thread here,
or is that every other board on the net ?

[Freakzilla]

I couldn't resist this... http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2182#72182" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think putting up a poll list and letting the fans decide would be the way to go. My two cents...

I vote for "Heterodox Herbertarians"!

[lotek]

Reverend Mothers (or Fathers)

(italics mine)
sweet jesus and his apostles...

[SandChigger]

SparrowsOfDune is a fucking moron. Figures he would be the one to resurrect a dumbass DumbNovels thread like that.

[Freakzilla]

I couldn't resist this... http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2182#72182" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think putting up a poll list and letting the fans decide would be the way to go. My two cents...

I vote for "Heterodox Herbertarians"!

VOTE FOR HETERODOX!

http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2266#72266" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[SandChigger]

STUPID has truly found a permanent home over there.

[grandmastercrafter]

Alternative Dune Dregs = ADD's

or

Dunebane (channel S.R.Donaldson, anyone?)

or

Dune-asses (or Dune-ass, singular) - not gender-specific, so it can work out for all preeqs!

edit: although I do like Heterodox Herbertarians... most of them probably would never know what it meant, which would just add to the pleasure of seeing them refer to themselves thataway...

[merkin muffley]

I couldn't resist this... http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2182#72182" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think putting up a poll list and letting the fans decide would be the way to go. My two cents...

I vote for "Heterodox Herbertarians"!

VOTE FOR HETERODOX!

http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2266#72266" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No way, Dude. Besides, I got banned again.

[Tleszer]

I still apparently have an inactive user name or invalid password. Would have voted for Heterodox, though "Dune-asses" has a nice ring to it as well.

On a related note, sometimes I still receive email notifications DungNovels when a new post is made in a thread I had posted in. Mind you, there aren't many of these but it sill is quite annoying.

Stupid Byron is stupid.

[Freakzilla]

Vote for your favorite version of the Butlerian Jihad!


http://forum.dunenovels.com/phpBB2/view ... 2395#72395" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[grandmastercrafter]

The theory that the Butlerian Jihad that Alliz posed is a new one for me. I had never before come across anyone else who felt as though the Jihad had been a political/religious movement to free mankind of its dependence on Machines.

I DID NOT post this to prove who is right or wrong. I am very interested to see how many share this new theory of Allis & Crysknife’s.

New theory? How has N never heard of this before? If I'm not mistaken, that's the theory that was generally accepted by all/majority of fans for the decades BEFORE McDune screwed things around...

[TheDukester]

"Versions"?

See, right there is why no one should let their friends or loved ones read McDune: it makes people stupid.

(Or stupider, in many cases ... Mr. Nicoderm Patch being a good example)

[Tleszer]

That "new theory" is almost explicitly stated in Dune. These McDune lovers are idiots.