Dragaera

Language drift and lifespan

Thu Sep 5 09:43:37 PDT 2002

Steve Simmons wrote:
> > Mark A Mandel writes:
> > Hmm.  What House would Oprah belong to?  Probably Issola . . . [snip]
>
> The Dragons and the Dzur would fight it out every four years for the
> White House, while the Yendi and the Orca play the Democrats and the
> Republicans respectively.  Both sides hire the Jhereg for dirty tricks.
> A rich Teckla runs the Reform Party as Ross Perot.  The Lyorn run the
> mainstream newspapers and the political magazines.
>
> OK, what tribe is Rush Limbaugh?

I'm not sure but one of my favorite all time excerpts from Steve's books is
the opening to _Yendi_ in which Vlad riffs on Kragar saying "Life is like an
onion" in terms of the different Houses.  It ends with something along the
lines of:

<The Jhereg don't care teckla droppings about bad spots.  We're just here to
sell onions.>

I'd say Perot and Limbaugh are probably Orca and Yendi respectively.

Based on the same opening, I'd probably agree with Andrew Bailey when he
wrote:
> I see springer more as a Hawk.

<See the spot, watch you cook and eat it and then shrug and say you didn't
ask when you spit it out>

Casey