... According to posts on the LJ group, where this is also being speculated, the Foglios have said that Higgs has "more ordinary" origins than the Jaegers....
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tiepilot.geo
May 18, 2012 1:01 am
... What they said was he had a more ordinary origin than *being the son of Gkika and Krizhan*, which is what the speculation was. The person didn't ask if he...
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Joy Beeson
joyalbeeson
May 18, 2012 2:28 pm
... Well, there's at least one honorary Jaeger on record, nominated posthumously: "When you bury him, make sure he has a hat!" And there's the sandwich-shop...
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Steven Paul Rewa, M.S.
rewastev
May 18, 2012 8:57 pm
... I'm not going to say yeah or neigh on Higgs, but it does seem like we've been let in on this color change secret just in time for us to wonder about other...
77073
Steven Paul Rewa, M.S.
rewastev
May 18, 2012 9:06 pm
... Good question. Maxim talks about Lars being as good as a jaeger and there was that business with "Old Man Death," so it seems that non-jaegers can have...
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sirruthvenmurgatroyd
sirruthvenmu...
May 18, 2012 11:01 pm
... Something called the "Jagertroth" has been mentioned previously; I'm geussing this is an oath of allegience to both the House of Heterodyne and the rest of...
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William Ansley
wa_gg_fan
May 19, 2012 12:36 am
... Mama Gikika is well over six feet tall with pointed ears and great big pointy teeth. She has to hide in a building full of false jaegers so people don't...
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Daniel W. Johnson
arguspanoptes
May 19, 2012 1:31 am
... Especially since one of the requirements seems to be "last long enuf". (A requirement that Higgs appears to have met, of course.) -- Daniel W. Johnson ...
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werewolfbynight13@...
lupaccio13
May 20, 2012 1:58 pm
Hi, all. I just got back from the annual H. Beam Piper Irregulars Muster. As it turns out, Steve, one of the attendees, has a wife and children crazy about...
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Alice Bentley
alicebentley...
May 20, 2012 4:03 pm
I knew about the clever "Sail Your (air)Ship" bonus mini-print that Kaja and Phil were putting together for this launch - your choice of one of three sweet...
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Steven Paul Rewa, M.S.
rewastev
May 21, 2012 11:33 am
... She definitely WAS using it to blend in with a more general population. She stayed all sneaky-like the whole time. ...
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Steven Paul Rewa, M.S.
rewastev
May 21, 2012 11:36 am
... I figured you would need to swear the troth before you drink. Otherwise you risk having a bunch of unloyal monsters running around. -Steve...
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Beth
klamerus219
May 21, 2012 1:28 pm
I've enjoyed the Generals in all of their appearances. But I'm really enjoying the last 2 days. Especially the last 2 panels of Friday's comic....
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mrobinson52
May 21, 2012 2:52 pm
I am reading the left one as "Tukken" and the right one as "Beir Echien". I thought that the right one might be a Beer Hall, based on the Beer mug hanging sign...
77083
morlockqueen
May 21, 2012 4:39 pm
... Speaking of merchandise, when are the trilobite buttons going to be for sale in the store? I want to order some for a cosplay I'm doing for Worldcon ^_^...
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yumitori
yumitor1
May 21, 2012 6:10 pm
That polearm looks awfully familiar - http://www.lirpa.de/en/pics.htm -- Ron/yumitori Science is not a democratic process....
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James Davis
jaredanfhiach
May 21, 2012 7:01 pm
*snort* well, considering that one of Phil's early efforts was "The Star Trek Primer" (which I still have a copy of, after all these years), I imagine he knows...
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Ariadne
ariadne_barr...
May 22, 2012 1:15 am
... I believe they're available right now. http://airshipstore.com/merchandise.aspx...
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Alice Bentley
alicebentley...
May 22, 2012 5:09 am
... Those are the pin type trilobites. There will be button-backed trilobites at some point, but I haven't gotten any sense of just when that will be (so I...
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Antje Bendrich
bendrich_de
May 22, 2012 8:59 am
Hallo mrobinson52, ... As a native speaker of German I cannot make any sense of those words either. Whatever language they may be, it's not German. Antje...
77089
morlockqueen
May 22, 2012 2:07 pm
... Ah. Thanks for the update! In the meantime, already ordered the book with the 3 mini-prints!...
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Trouble Sturm
holobeadpainter
May 22, 2012 3:44 pm
... This may be a spelling error. These have been known to happen from time to time in GG. Usually pointing it out in the group will cause somebody to inform...
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Joy Beeson
joyalbeeson
May 22, 2012 4:07 pm
... And the sign painter may have goofed. Or he could have done it on purpose, like the joke about the sign that said "Fishing Tickle". -- Joy Beeson ...
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Antje Bendrich
bendrich_de
May 22, 2012 8:16 pm
... Sorry, what I meant was that these words do not resemble any actual German words that might even remotely make sense. "Tukken" is written and pronounced...
77093
William Ansley
wa_gg_fan
May 22, 2012 9:11 pm
... The words don't seem to be Romanian, either, which is the language used in signs on at least one earlier page: ...
77094
Ariadne
ariadne_barr...
May 23, 2012 12:53 am
... They're Military Clutch/"Butterfly" Clip backed rather then a Pin-back button. What is "button-backed"? Clutch/Clip -...
77095
William Ansley
wa_gg_fan
May 23, 2012 5:22 am
... What is being referred to here as a "button-backed trilobite" is a trilobite button in the sense of a clothing button, such as you might sew on a jacket as...
77096
beachrower304
May 23, 2012 7:25 am
... <schnipperle> ... <geschnitzelte Text zu Ende> Duden Online lists words that start with Echi, but none of them seem fitting: Echinacea, Echinit,...
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Steven Paul Rewa, M.S.
rewastev
May 23, 2012 12:03 pm
... I think they speak Romanian. I'm not going to offer a translation though. -Steve...
77098
tiepilot.geo
May 23, 2012 1:33 pm
... IIRC they're supposed to use German and Romanian as the major languages, but it doesn't look like either of them. Romanian's a Latin-based language and...
