Thank you so much! Usually I have a much harder time with endings (well, actually, mainly just managing to get anything to an end), but somehow this just... worked. That makes me very happy. ^^
Heh-- you just know McKay's to-do list is a hundred pages long, and he's the type who can always feel it hanging over his head. I actually kind of like the name Carl for a moon-- but I think I'd definitely have to draw the line at Billy Ray. Might make people start singing "Achy Breaky Heart" at odd moments, and I think they've got more than enough problems as it is. ;)
He might've come up with something like those names, eventually, but now that McKay's brought it up, he's definitely keeping at least one for sheer spite. I doubt he'll manage to name them all, though, even if he wanted to try-- I think just one or two would make the point-- because even if the astronomers (not to mention the whole rest of the city) were willing to give up the rights to him, I don't think their professional dignity would allow "Joe Bob".
"Okay. Explain this to me one more time. What the hell makes 'Joe Bob' a more ridiculous name than 'Pegasus'?"
"Four thousand years of history, damn it! We want names with decorum, we want names with dignity--"
"Actually, I wanted to name one of them after my mother. You know, just the little gray one."
"Pierre, time and place--"
"It's just, then maybe she would forgive me for not being a doctor."
"Good God, Pierre, this mission is CLASSIFIED! She could never, ever know! And-- oh dear god he's crying."
"Huh. So the tact thing isn't just McKay. He
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Yeah, "Ariadne" could probably get tricky... But I don't think he's going to get away with more than one or two. He'll get Gary, and possibly Carl, but I think the science team would beat him to death with their laptops if he tried to name more than two-- especially if said name was "Joe Bob"; that would just be insult to injury. There'd be a whole crowd of people complaining about arrogant fascist flyboys who do not, damn it, get to have all the cool toys for themselves, and I think eventually he'd have to back down (if he were entirely serious in the first place). But 'Gary', at least, would inexplicably stick, and the scientists would just learn to live with that. Heh. Thank you for commenting!
Oo, I'm going to agree with anonymous here, if East is to the right then north is straight ahead. I didn't even notice it when reading though. Very enjoyable story. I wish you'd say John's name a little earlier though. I figured it was Sheppard but it was just he this or that, no name until nearly the end. Perhaps you had a reason for doing that in which case just ignore me. I'm really looking forward to them naming things on their new planet (I assume) now! Keep on writing!
Damn it, I did my best to work that out right! X_X Put quite some effort... Either a slip in editing or thinking, cause I never was good at remembering the difference between left and right... -sigh- Ah well. Thank you guys so much; I'll go back and fix that... there isn't any reason I wouldn't be allowed to fix that in this post by going back and editing, is there? I'm relatively new to LJ and terribly paranoid about that sort of thing, heh.
As to why I didn't mention his name... I wouldn't say it was a mistake, but I couldn't tell you offhand why I like to do that, either. Quite possibly some odd form of neurosis-- that or I just like the effect-- could go either way; if I figure it out any time soon I'll let you know. Thank you so much for your comment!
Yeah, you can edit LJ, just do edit entry then change what you want and save it, simple as that. :) I'm always finding spelling errors and such after I post something and if I care enough I go back and fix it. I'm not a big LJ user so I just figured out how to do cuts after over a year of making massive posts. :p
Hey, everyone has their writing styles and I'd never assume to tell you to change yours as long as you have a reason, or non-reason as the case may be. :)
Frank the moonbeckiezraAugust 3 2007, 14:58:03 UTC
I just saw this article on discovery.com and it made me think of your story so I thought I would share. :) "The new moon, officially designated as S/2007 S 4, but which has been unofficially nicknamed "Frank," orbits Saturn between the paths of Methone and Pallene, two small sister moons also discovered in Cassini images in 2004." http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/20/saturnmoon_spa.html
Re: Frank the moonameretrifleAugust 6 2007, 03:33:52 UTC
Oh, that is cool. At the moment, I'm more thrilled to have proof that someone actually remembered this story after a week (insert brief victory dance), but the link itself is also awesome and ha ha, someone remembered my story after a week, that is so incredible! *cough* Sorry. Heh.
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I love McKay's to-do list, and that John doesn't see anything wrong with moons named Gary, and Carl, and Billy Ray, and Joe Bob.
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Heh-- you just know McKay's to-do list is a hundred pages long, and he's the type who can always feel it hanging over his head. I actually kind of like the name Carl for a moon-- but I think I'd definitely have to draw the line at Billy Ray. Might make people start singing "Achy Breaky Heart" at odd moments, and I think they've got more than enough problems as it is. ;)
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He might've come up with something like those names, eventually, but now that McKay's brought it up, he's definitely keeping at least one for sheer spite. I doubt he'll manage to name them all, though, even if he wanted to try-- I think just one or two would make the point-- because even if the astronomers (not to mention the whole rest of the city) were willing to give up the rights to him, I don't think their professional dignity would allow "Joe Bob".
"Okay. Explain this to me one more time. What the hell makes 'Joe Bob' a more ridiculous name than 'Pegasus'?"
"Four thousand years of history, damn it! We want names with decorum, we want names with dignity--"
"Actually, I wanted to name one of them after my mother. You know, just the little gray one."
"Pierre, time and place--"
"It's just, then maybe she would forgive me for not being a doctor."
"Good God, Pierre, this mission is CLASSIFIED! She could never, ever know! And-- oh dear god he's crying."
"Huh. So the tact thing isn't just McKay. He ( ... )
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As to why I didn't mention his name... I wouldn't say it was a mistake, but I couldn't tell you offhand why I like to do that, either. Quite possibly some odd form of neurosis-- that or I just like the effect-- could go either way; if I figure it out any time soon I'll let you know. Thank you so much for your comment!
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Hey, everyone has their writing styles and I'd never assume to tell you to change yours as long as you have a reason, or non-reason as the case may be. :)
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"The new moon, officially designated as S/2007 S 4, but which has been unofficially nicknamed "Frank," orbits Saturn between the paths of Methone and Pallene, two small sister moons also discovered in Cassini images in 2004."
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/20/saturnmoon_spa.html
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