Nice job, Jon. You got a whole planet named after you. But nobody ever remembers Phillip. Fear not, Phillip, I will name a world after you someday, and it will be geeky.

Pretty picture here [websnark.com], explanation on the main page [websnark.com].

Sydney and Perth???? Is that all we are to you???

In Response to unFalln (#21730):

Sydney and Perth???? Is that all we are to you???

What, you're asking for more? I mean, come on! Syndey! And Perth for cryaiai.

I'm sure there's a Victoria dinahnda you can count, innit?

Maybe that's why Phillip is drawing the strip now. He wants a planet that badly.

“And in the meantime, the Concordians have devoted essentially all the resources of their worlds to this damn war. Frankly, we’re lucky we’ve held them so far. If they ever solidly took Rosenberg, they’d cut off the Manley Reach from any kind of reinforcements. They could take them in a walk. Then, they just need to reinforce and hold....”

“And what good has it got them? They made headway into our space, then we hit them back. We sometimes push past Aurora and hit Thames on their side. They’ve pushed all the way to Rosenberg more than once. But for the most part, we have a running battlefield of nine disputed worlds. They have their whole empire behind their war effort. I doubt more than ten percent of our Empire even knows there is a war.”

Writing dialog is hard.

In Response to unFalln (#21730):

no, there's also Darwin, booze, sex shows and kangaroos.

In Response to zamphir (#21738):

yeah, especially putting that "ue" on the end of it.

In Response to snipergirl (#21744):

dialog [reference.com]

You people have too much French influence, putting extra letters on everything.

In Response to Dynedain (#21748):

I'm too senile to remember where i found this originally; but it seems appropriate:

Once you’ve learned to correctly pronounce every word in the following poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone:

Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language… until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself - Aloud, this is important!

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard.
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written).

Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmorals,
Litchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamor
And enamor rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangor.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant,
Shoes, goes,
Does.
Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, knob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos,
Chair, senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever, neither,
Leisure, skein, decei

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In Response to Dynedain (#21748):

Perhaps, rather, you people have too little french influence.

Freedom fries indeed.

In Response to tynic (#21756):

Bah, that was only Congress...in their private caffeteria. No-one else in the country even blinked.

A Rosenberg planet would be scary.

And probably full of Jews.

While I do agree with the concept of the Jews having a home planet, in theory, I don't really want to live on a planet full of Jews (or one populated majorly by Jews, for that matter.)

In Response to Evander (#21761):

Mel Brookes predicted "Jews in Space"

"We're Jews/ We're Jews in spaaaace..."

In Response to Teledildonix (#21749):

I remember reading that in about sixth grade... and I realized it to be old then.

Also, note the use of "the Queen's English" in spelling. I remember the poem being attributed to a an author with a feminine Indian (as in the subcontinent) name.

In Response to Dynedain (#21758):

Well, except for the comedians... some of them took great advantage of how ridiculous it was.

I was waiting for someone to offer me victory cabbage on my hot dog, whilst I watched someone outside taking their Alsacian hound for a walk.