Edict

[mrissa]

No one should ever ever again describe a police officer or schmancy speculative police officer-equivalent as "hard-nosed." Ever. We are done with the hard-nosed cops. Get a new adjective, because that one is all worn out.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

What if it's Cyrano de Badgerac?

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Or Kid Shelleen/Tim Strawn?

[zunger.livejournal.com]

Then I believe you would have an entire monologue's worth of alternatives. :)

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Touché.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Or Tycho Brahe?

[evangoer.livejournal.com]

But we can still describe their eyes [going] white, like a shark about to attack (http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/001631.html)?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The 28-year-old writer was chagrined that he would even link to someone quoting Dan Brown. The brunette found herself unable to read past the first five pages of The DaVinci Code due to the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad prose. The ex-physicist shook her head chidingly.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

I read approximately the first five pages too...aloud to my boyfriend. In heaving dramatic accents. We theorised that one day we would read the entire book together, just so we could shut up all the people who keep telling us "It's the best thing EVAR." But we have yet to bring ourself to the brink.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. NOT ONLY IS THAT BOOK NOT "ALL THAT," IT IS NO SIGNIFCANT PORTION OF THAT.

Ahem. I mean, I didn't care for it much.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There are some steps in a relationship you can't undo without damage to the relationship, once you've taken them. I think reading an entire Dan Brown novel might well be one of them.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

this is related to my "was violently sick" ban, isn't it?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes: I was violently sick when I read this description.

Well, nearly.

Well, I thought of it, at least.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Chabon's new book?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, sadly it was Jay Caselberg's Metal Sky. I like Jay, from the little I know of him at cons. I just wanted to find him and shake him and say, "NO MORE!"

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[agamisu.livejournal.com]

There is no more.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well. Sorry for the shaking, then.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "What if they've been genetically engineered to have a carapace, or a little rhino-horn?" (I had great fun in my Jesus-clone story that was in Baen's Universe, saying a genetically engineered part-dog officer "barked" his sentences and that he was a son of a bitch, and a bloodhound.) And then I actually got a whole character with a little rhino-horn who isn't hard-nosed in the other sense at all, and all I need is a world and something to do with her. (She implies some things about her world by existing, naturally.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Puns excuse much.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

>My first thought was "What if they've been genetically engineered to have a carapace, or a little rhino-horn?"

This smells like my cue.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't replace it with "squishy-nosed".

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, unless the cop actually is squishy-nosed.

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

How about "nasally endowed"?