Honorverse favorite one-liners

"Helm, stand by to alter course one-three-five degrees to starboard, forty degree nose-down skew, and roll starboard on my command!"

"All weapons crews," that voice she could not quite recognize even now went on, carrying a calm and a confidence that stilled incipient panic like a magic wand, "stand by to engage as programmed. Transmitting manual firing commands now."

A Manty. He'd attacked a Manty warship, committed the one unforgivable blunder no pirate or privateer was ever allowed to commit more than once.

“She paused again, and Commodore Shulamit Onasis, the CO of Battlecruiser Division 106.2, frowned thoughtfully.
“I know that ’cat-in-the-celery-patch look, Ma’am,” she said after a moment. “Why do I sense there’s another shoe hanging in midair somewhere?”
“Well, I guess it might be because there is,” Michelle admitted cheerfully. She had everyone’s full attention again, she observed, and glanced at Cruiser Division 96.1’s commanding officer from the corner of one eye. “It seems that although somehow the newsies haven’t picked up on it yet, the reason our original reinforcing squadrons went somewhere else is that Duchess Harrington and Eighth Fleet have gone somewhere else, as well. To the Haven System, as a matter of fact.”

cthia wrote:How bad? Manty bad!

Yow wrote:Rereading MoH. I like learning the history of expressions, cliches, and weird lil' words in our everyday language. Kinda like these; beating a dead horse, three sheets to the wind, any port in a storm, "cliche". That's why I enjoyed this next passage.

“She paused again, and Commodore Shulamit Onasis, the CO of Battlecruiser Division 106.2, frowned thoughtfully.
“I know that ’cat-in-the-celery-patch look, Ma’am,” she said after a moment. “Why do I sense there’s another shoe hanging in midair somewhere?”
“Well, I guess it might be because there is,” Michelle admitted cheerfully. She had everyone’s full attention again, she observed, and glanced at Cruiser Division 96.1’s commanding officer from the corner of one eye. “It seems that although somehow the newsies haven’t picked up on it yet, the reason our original reinforcing squadrons went somewhere else is that Duchess Harrington and Eighth Fleet have gone somewhere else, as well. To the Haven System, as a matter of fact.”

Yow wrote:Kinda of like this.

cthia wrote:How bad? Manty bad!

HMS cthia rolling Pods

I like those kinds of phrases as well Yow. And RFC seems to be ripe with them. Where he pulls 'em I don't know, but he very well has a veritable inventory somewhere.

You just incited an awful memory. One I wish I could forget. The first time I was three sheets to the wind in college. Not my best moment.

“My God,” Captain (SG) Prescott Tremaine, CruDiv 96.1’s CO, murmured.”

Yow wrote:

I like those kinds of phrases as well Yow. And RFC seems to be ripe with them. Where he pulls 'em I don't know, but he very well has a veritable inventory somewhere.

Probably where I first really became aware of them. The military I swear, most of America's expressions ( I may be exaggerating a little bit) either came directly from the military or was brought to our shores by those jolly roving tars.

You just incited an awful memory. One I wish I could forget. The first time I was three sheets to the wind in college. Not my best moment.

I pretty much quit drinking during my second tour. Numerous beers and three bottles of wine and a $50.00 rack of lamb from the Irish Village Pub in Dubai... I held out the longest among my peers before I gave up my plunder

However badly the People's Republic might have distracted the Manticoran government, the RMN's response to what had happened here was as certain as the energy death of the universe.