BrettM Wrote:Except when he's Michelle.
(Can't fool us, Mike. There're WAY too many Heinlein fans around this board to miss that easy a reference.)
Well I missed it. Duh. But.... wasn't Heinlein referencing Doyle when he used the name "Mycroft"? I sure thought so. I thought it was one heck of an amusing reference given the context.
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webby Wrote:Well I missed it. Duh. But.... wasn't Heinlein referencing Doyle when he used the name "Mycroft"? I sure thought so. I thought it was one heck of an amusing reference given the context.At the beginning of the book Heinlein specifically mentions that Mike thinks he is the brother of Sherlock Holmes.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:At the beginning of the book Heinlein specifically mentions that Mike thinks he is the brother of Sherlock Holmes.
Oh yeah... it's been a while, but I thought I had a reason for thinking that.
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"I said, Hey Senorita - that's astute, I said, why don't we get together and call ourselves an institute?" --Paul Simon
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"In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves." -- Ron Paul
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webby Wrote:Well I missed it. Duh. But.... wasn't Heinlein referencing Doyle when he used the name "Mycroft"? I sure thought so. I thought it was one heck of an amusing reference given the context.
The computer was a High Optional Logic Multi Evaluating Series-4 -- a HOLMES IV. (Or something very close to that.)
Manny referred to it as a Dinkum-Thinkum, and gave it the nickname Mike, as Mycroft Holmes was Sherlocks brother.
MYCROFTXXX was the phone number Manny used to contact "Mike" the computer.
Phone numbers in Luna had ten digits, hence the "XXX."
"Prof's" contact number was MYSTERIOUS.
Wyo's number was MYCHELLEYY.
Ken V.
jimbow8 Wrote:At the beginning of the book Heinlein specifically mentions that Mike thinks he is the brother of Sherlock Holmes.
Actually, Manny tells the computer about "Sherlock's Sibling," and the computer likes the parallel.
Ennyway . . . neat web-name.
Ken V.