Nazis-schmazis, as long as Hamlet's ghost hasn't been released then everything will be okay
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Ah, he aims to be the patron saint of cheesy dad puns!"Don't you remember, you asked to assemble the war cabinet. Can't get much more war-like than this." King Haakon said, proudly tapping his handiwork.
Case rested, m’lad."Very bad news from Copenhagen, the Danes have given up the ghost." Nygaardsvold started the meeting.
"That's a disaster, he must never be released!" The King shouted.
Probably best for everyone concerned.now I'm off for a trip to the Fjords.
I’m not entirely sure I want to know!What does he do in the Fjords that takes so long?
This is one of the real old beasts of the forums, one of the last of a dying breed, so I am delighted it is still attracting new readers.And then they do appear suddenly......................................out of thin air
I admit that the initial reason for coming here was to read a 14 year old AAR!!!!!
But this is good. I have never read a comedy AAR before. I read the first 3 and this last chapter for now. King Hakoon seems like a mad lad. I wonder if he will survive the onslaught of the Nazis...................oh..........of course he will.
Why does Oslo castle have so many bunkers. Is it for war or something else................................
I think you have just guessed the name of the first CK3 DLC pack.Shakespeare, sex dungeons and blind optimism for Swedish war simulators!
It can take people like that, it is not a promising premise. But I like to think I have squeezed some laughs out of it.So in my slightly pompous exhortation that we should all "read more AARs" I'm copping out by starting with something I knew would be excellent. I wasn't prepared for how funny it would be.
The 60s TV Batman (which was the Adam West one) was definitely an influence and, as TBC mentions below, so was Danger Mouse. The conceit of an over excited announcer asking a range of rhetorical, irrelevant and nonsense questions that will never directly be answered amuses me,.I just cannot not make the comparison with the old "Batman" programmes that (I think) Adam West (?) starred in. They always ended, no matter how mad or pedestrian the setting, with an injection of drama like this, followed by "stay tuned, same bat time, same bat channel." Bloody marvellous.
This is a relief, because a lot of this stuff is just things that make me laugh rather than any real attempt to be funny for other people.Is just very, very funny mon brave...
You continue to live up to my mental image of a high flying legal type, in this case with your choice of neighbours. This is good.Sounds like my next door neighbour's idea of heaven (he's an odd cove).
Again, it is reassuring and correct that a lawyer should prefer Knightmare. It is after all a game about a poor innocent blundering blindly through a baffling and dangerous labyrinth, taking part in a contest where the only actual 'winners' are the professionals who work there as guides and have no personal stake in the outcome. ( )I was never really in to Danger Mouse. Now Knightmare, there's a programme.
This is absolutely correct. King Haakon has his priorities correct.Nazis-schmazis, as long as Hamlet's ghost hasn't been released then everything will be okay
I've become a Dad since starting this, so such jokes are now my solemn duty to inflict on others. Mostly my children, but also undeserving readers.Ah, he aims to be the patron saint of cheesy dad puns!
Case rested, m’lad.
Very wise. Some mysteries, like this, the Giant Rat of Sumatra or the contents of Tiso's hipflask, the world is not yet ready to know and indeed may never be ready to know.I’m not entirely sure I want to know!
It is best that his ghost remains contained that is true.Fear the Great Dane. And his dad too, since Brian Blessed and Shakespeare himself played the ghost. Very dangerous character for Norwegians.
think you have just guessed the name of the first CK3 DLC pack.
In practical terms it may have been better if the Norwegian Navy had gone on a fishing trip, so I was tempted by the option and I may yet take it. Or at least gloss over the actual battles.Given the tone so far, you could probably skip large parts of the remaining action on account of an important fishing trip.
Yes.You think paradox thinks Shakespeare is medieval? Or you think paradox thinks people who buy ckiii early are idiots?
That would require a definite agreement on who the Hero is. Or perhaps not, that ending would maintain ambiguity to the very end and is that not what all trendy modernist playwrights desire?Given the tone of the story, you could easily skip past the end and then give a brief, old Victorian theatre ending of the main actor coming out on stage and saying:
"Er...the hero won."
They are at present too small for such things being but 5 and 2, so this is mostly me getting practice in for when they are ready to understand/appreciate/suffer *delete as appropriate*.Concerning your affliction of Fatherly Duties, chief among them impacting your children with ever worsening jokes, surely some of the humming I hear in my ear when on an El Pip page is the resonance of your daughters' groans and peals of despair
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That would require a definite agreement on who the Hero is.
Or perhaps not, that ending would maintain ambiguity to the very end and is that not what all trendy modernist playwrights desire?
Wise words.By 5 they are old enough for Dad jokes.
Just be aware they may reuse them in school...
If I hadn't over-done the contrived acronyms in T&T I would have gone for asking if the new method of smoking would pass the International Agreed Method of Asssement For Inspecting Smoked Herring (I AM A FISH) but I'm trying to mix things up a bit.Hull FIMCOB? FICB? Coming up with some wacky antic acronyms is just a way of life after one's been in the military. Just ask Bullfilter.
For Norway, not being annexed by the Nazis would be a good start towards winning.And what winning is.
It has all been downhill since Ibsen and his ilk were allowed in it is true. We were talking about the 1850s onwards weren't we?If by modern you mean 50s onwards then yes, and also not helping your case to try and convince everyone you are not in fact victorian yourself.
For Norway, not being annexed by the Nazis would be a good start towards winning.
Good call to keep things (us readers) on our toes!If I hadn't over-done the contrived acronyms in T&T I would have gone for asking if the new method of smoking would pass the International Agreed Method of Asssement For Inspecting Smoked Herring (I AM A FISH) but I'm trying to mix things up a bit.
Are we quite certain that Pip isn't a bloody vampire? It would go a long way to understanding the pace of updates, or that it won't need to be Pip The Fifth to carry on traditions...It has all been downhill since Ibsen and his ilk were allowed in it is true. We were talking about the 1850s onwards weren't we?
Are we quite certain that Pip isn't a bloody vampire? It would go a long way to understanding the pace of updates, or that it won't need to be Pip The Fifth to carry on traditions...
Wise words.
They are the good guys from a certain point of view as Obi Wan might say. (This metaphor does require you accepting Weimar Germany as Anakin Skywalker, which is a bit of a stretch but not impossible. Does also require Mussolini to be Emperor Palpatine which, if you compare the engineering of the Death Star to that of Italian Tanks, is also not completely out of the question.)I'm sorry, are you saying Nazis aren't the good guys?
Someone has to.Good call to keep things (us readers) on our toes!
Are we quite certain that Pip isn't a bloody vampire? It would go a long way to understanding the pace of updates, or that it won't need to be Pip The Fifth to carry on traditions...
I definitely haven't crossed the floor in a moment of weakness or otherwise. Beyond that I decline to be drawn.I'm fairly sure he's a classic liberal who in a moment of weakness crossed the floor and was cursed for his sins to walk the forums for all time.
And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.On a related note, I do enjoy how every mainstay on the forums ends up becoming a supernatural monster of some kind.
Managed to avoid that sort of incident so far, but it is surely only a matter of time.Our oldest, at four, told one of his preschool teachers "I can't afford the help you need."
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