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Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by NHBL   » Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:05 pm

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It seems that Joe Buckley is the designated corpse in a lot of Weber's materials. Well, that's not the only place he's manifested. I'm watching Gettysburg, and noticed that the spokesman for the men of the Second Maine, at the beginning of the film, is Joseph Buckley! Have to see if he's still standing at the end.
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Post by saber964   » Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:00 pm

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NHBL wrote:It seems that Joe Buckley is the designated corpse in a lot of Weber's materials. Well, that's not the only place he's manifested. I'm watching Gettysburg, and noticed that the spokesman for the men of the Second Maine, at the beginning of the film, is Joseph Buckley! Have to see if he's still standing at the end.



He is.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by Randomiser   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:18 am

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NHBL wrote:It seems that Joe Buckley is the designated corpse in a lot of Weber's materials. Well, that's not the only place he's manifested. I'm watching Gettysburg, and noticed that the spokesman for the men of the Second Maine, at the beginning of the film, is Joseph Buckley! Have to see if he's still standing at the end.



In addition, Joe Buckley has become a kind of 'house joke' for quite a few Baen authors, with an informal competition to see who can provide the most 'imaginative' end for him. Baen produced an extracts anthology 'The Many Deaths of Joe Buckley' in 2014. It's available from Baen or Amazon.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by Galactic Sapper   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 12:38 pm

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Randomiser wrote:
NHBL wrote:It seems that Joe Buckley is the designated corpse in a lot of Weber's materials. Well, that's not the only place he's manifested. I'm watching Gettysburg, and noticed that the spokesman for the men of the Second Maine, at the beginning of the film, is Joseph Buckley! Have to see if he's still standing at the end.



In addition, Joe Buckley has become a kind of 'house joke' for quite a few Baen authors, with an informal competition to see who can provide the most 'imaginative' end for him. Baen produced an extracts anthology 'The Many Deaths of Joe Buckley' in 2014. It's available from Baen or Amazon.

John Ringo had a Buckley die in the Aldenata series. It's been a while but I think it was a bridge collapsing on top of him in an artillery barrage.
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Post by Dauntless   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:09 pm

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I believe ringo dropped a building on him once.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by fallsfromtrees   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:36 pm

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and Eric Flint had reporter Joe Buckley killed by torture in one of the 1632 books - the exact one escapes me at the moment - I think it was the Galileo Affair.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by cthia   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 6:12 pm

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Come on guys. They don't call him Buckly for nothing. No one can buck the system like Buckly. He's the modern day Houdini.

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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by tlb   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 6:39 pm

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cthia wrote:Come on guys. They don't call him Buckly for nothing. No one can buck the system like Buckly. He's the modern day Houdini.

Except he dies each time, just like Kenny. Houdini only died once.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by jtg452   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:29 pm

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Didn't Gannon have him 'absorbed' by a living ship because his Buckley decided to ignore orders and went exploring?

The human made portable AI's (called 'buckleys' after their creator) that basically 'die' (reset themselves) because of panic attacks if they are given the opportunity was too funny. If their awareness is turned up too high for too long, they basically worry themselves to 'death'- only to reset and return to awareness in a panic, of course.

Didn't he also get killed because he activated a grenade, shoved it into a crevasse only to find out that he couldn't open his hand to turn it loose?


Weber's history of the SLN Joseph Buckley named ships was funny as well.
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Re: Joseph Buckly shows up elsewhere
Post by Senior Chief   » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:59 pm

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jtg452 wrote:Didn't Gannon have him 'absorbed' by a living ship because his Buckley decided to ignore orders and went exploring?

The human made portable AI's (called 'buckleys' after their creator) that basically 'die' (reset themselves) because of panic attacks if they are given the opportunity was too funny. If their awareness is turned up too high for too long, they basically worry themselves to 'death'- only to reset and return to awareness in a panic, of course.

Didn't he also get killed because he activated a grenade, shoved it into a crevasse only to find out that he couldn't open his hand to turn it loose?


Weber's history of the SLN Joseph Buckley named ships was funny as well.



Hmmmm I was stationed on the USS Dennis J. Buckley DD 808 which was named after Dennis Joseph Buckley Jr.
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