Ramen and Whipsnade are dead
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The Traveller Mailing List has led to the creation of several things that have become part of Traveller lore.. some of the companies and personages in the Imperial setting were born in our oft-snarky exchanges. But none of them equal Ramen and Whipsnade.
Ramen and Whipsnade: comedy team consisting of Fred Ramen and Larsen E. Whipsnade, both names suspected of being pseudonymous. First emerging in the years leading up to the Fifth Frontier War with their mock debate "The Iron Chefs" (about a fictional unit in the Interstellar Wars), the duo did not achieve real success
until they were signed to a development deal by MyMines Corporation (LIC) during the war itself. Their first hit was the patriotic (some say propagandistic) epic, The Road to Zhodane.
In all, the pair made five "...Road To" holopics; their greatest success was The Road to Sabmiqys, widely regarded as their finest work. Its follow up, The Road to Aldebaran, in which Ramen and Whipsnade become involved in a two-hour barroom brawl and tangle with both Imperial and Solomani law enforcement, was a critical and popular failure; audiences were alienated by the intricate plot lines (the screenplay was rumored to have been written by Ramen) and frequent use of metafictional elements. Personally and financially disappointed (the duo always seemed to be only one step ahead of their creditors), Ramen and Whipsnade announced a hiatus from film making to gather material for their next work. They vanished sometime before 1116 and were never heard from again.
Much of their comedy seems disappointing to modern tastes; however, in their day their fame was only exceeded by their notoriety. Infamous for their petty forgeries, scams, and frauds throughout every region of space they moved through, they left a long line of angry nobles, collection agents, and legal experts.
Some have speculated that they must have been agents of a government of noble, using their fame as a "purloined letter" method of hiding in plain sight; others have argued that they were far too incompetent to ever have been recruited by any intelligence agency, even one run by Vargr.
A novel, supposedly describing their last days and attributed to Ramen has circulated in samizdat format on Xmail lists for years. A recent edition of the book, edited by noted Ramen and Whipsnade scholar Frater Ganidiirsi Simalr of the Order of the Arrow, has recently been published
--Library Data
We're now getting that novel on the TML, and we have beenthreatened promised that many of the regulars will appear. Some of the references might be a little esoteric, but the writing is wonderful. So, for you enjoyment, I proudly link to
Ramen and Whipsnade Are Dead
The story will be updated as it is written.
The Traveller Mailing List has led to the creation of several things that have become part of Traveller lore.. some of the companies and personages in the Imperial setting were born in our oft-snarky exchanges. But none of them equal Ramen and Whipsnade.
Ramen and Whipsnade: comedy team consisting of Fred Ramen and Larsen E. Whipsnade, both names suspected of being pseudonymous. First emerging in the years leading up to the Fifth Frontier War with their mock debate "The Iron Chefs" (about a fictional unit in the Interstellar Wars), the duo did not achieve real success
until they were signed to a development deal by MyMines Corporation (LIC) during the war itself. Their first hit was the patriotic (some say propagandistic) epic, The Road to Zhodane.
In all, the pair made five "...Road To" holopics; their greatest success was The Road to Sabmiqys, widely regarded as their finest work. Its follow up, The Road to Aldebaran, in which Ramen and Whipsnade become involved in a two-hour barroom brawl and tangle with both Imperial and Solomani law enforcement, was a critical and popular failure; audiences were alienated by the intricate plot lines (the screenplay was rumored to have been written by Ramen) and frequent use of metafictional elements. Personally and financially disappointed (the duo always seemed to be only one step ahead of their creditors), Ramen and Whipsnade announced a hiatus from film making to gather material for their next work. They vanished sometime before 1116 and were never heard from again.
Much of their comedy seems disappointing to modern tastes; however, in their day their fame was only exceeded by their notoriety. Infamous for their petty forgeries, scams, and frauds throughout every region of space they moved through, they left a long line of angry nobles, collection agents, and legal experts.
Some have speculated that they must have been agents of a government of noble, using their fame as a "purloined letter" method of hiding in plain sight; others have argued that they were far too incompetent to ever have been recruited by any intelligence agency, even one run by Vargr.
A novel, supposedly describing their last days and attributed to Ramen has circulated in samizdat format on Xmail lists for years. A recent edition of the book, edited by noted Ramen and Whipsnade scholar Frater Ganidiirsi Simalr of the Order of the Arrow, has recently been published
--Library Data
We're now getting that novel on the TML, and we have been
Ramen and Whipsnade Are Dead
The story will be updated as it is written.
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Date: 4 Feb 2005 04:49 (UTC)The TML
Date: 4 Feb 2005 09:38 (UTC)Maybe if i quit my job...or got a HUD/portaboxen/walkaround weblink to keep up.