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TygrBright

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2. I like the way it was described in the discussion: "The Suck Fairy's visit"

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Thu May 10, 2018, 04:15 PM

May 2018

Stuff you thought was so great all that time ago... you go back to it, and, behold! while you weren't paying attention, the Suck Fairy visited it.

amusedly,
Bright

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I Call It "Leetsplaining". And I'm Done With It. [View all] TygrBright May 2018 OP

In the sixties I was a huge RAH fan... and read everything he wrote lapfog_1 May 2018 #1

I like the way it was described in the discussion: "The Suck Fairy's visit" TygrBright May 2018 #2

Oh, I like that. I read a LOT of Heinlein as a kid, quite uncritically early on. It was in the house Hekate May 2018 #11

Oh good another category of "-splaining" Loki Liesmith May 2018 #3

Actually, I was attempting to subsume all the subcategories with a meta-category... n/t TygrBright May 2018 #5

Oh gooder.... another post minimizing and trivializing a concept LanternWaste May 2018 #6

Let's just call it... regnaD kciN May 2018 #10

Stop your splainsplaining! Dr. Strange May 2018 #12

This looks real good. Kicking to read in full later... Hekate May 2018 #4

It's probably too soon to talk about the late Jerry Pournelle... hunter May 2018 #7

Orson Scott Card, David Weber... etc. n/t TygrBright May 2018 #8

A lot of RAH was instrumental in shaping my opinions Blue_Adept May 2018 #9