[TML] Honor 'Just call me Horatio' Harrington was Re: Environmental domes

[Andrew Long]

On 6 Sep 2007, at 06:10, Andrew Long wrote:

>
> On 6 Sep 2007, at 00:33, Rupert Boleyn wrote:
>
>> Bruce Johnson wrote:
>>> On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:52 PM, DAve Shillito wrote:
>>>
>>>> The HH 'verse is (or appears to be loosely) based around the 19th
>>>> century.
>>>>
>>>> Manticore = Britain
>>>> People's Republic of Haven = France
>>>> Andermani = Germany
>>>> Grayson = US
>>>>
>>>> The rise of Grays
>>>
>>>
>>> Loosely????!!! ROFL!
>>>
>>> The HH 'verse is 'Horatio Hornblower' with faint scuff marks above
>>> the still clearly visible serial numbers....
>>
>> Aside from the technological advantage the Manties have over the
>> Peeps,
>> which doesn't reflect either the Hornblower novels or real history
>> at all.
>>
> <straight face>Nope, that's where it becomes the cold war, with the
> US superiority over the Soviets</straight face>
>
Towards the end of the Cold War, there was a lot of chatter about  
"Quantity having a quality all of it's own". And I remember a joke  
that was supposed to be current around NATO to the effect of:-

Location: Paris
Time: After the war

First Soviet tank general to second Soviet tank general: "By the way,  
who won the air war?"

Regards, Andy

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Andrew Long
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