I just read that you wrote the insults for the sword fighting For the Game "Secret of Monkey Island" Is that true? It was on wikipedia...so my guess is it is true, or it would have been edited out...but I figured I would ask. That game was awesome...and the sword fighting with insults was very funny.
Posted by Verai (Member # 7507) on :
Aye, matey.
My big brother E-Mailed OSC a fan note a looooooong time ago about the Monkey Island insults. He didn't know he had written any books.
[ April 19, 2005, 02:50 PM: Message edited by: Verai ]
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I'm proud of those insults. I had help, though. They had to have really LAME insults to start with, so he could learn better ones through later combat. So I asked my kids - then still in grade school - what lame-o insults they heard kids using on the playground.
And then, because they loved the whole process (and I tried out my insults and ripostes on the family), my kids volunteered some "good" insults and ripostes (I put "good" in quotes because IS there such a thing as a good insult?), and some of their suggestions made it into the game.
I didn't give them any credit, however, and kept all the money. Children are an oppressed minority, and I, for one, intend to keep it that way.
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
Could I ask, by any chance, how you came up with "You fight like a dairy farmer/ How appropriate, you fight like a cow"? That's one of my favorite lines of all time, from any media, and I use it whenever I can.
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I truly believe that that one was thought up by my son Geoffrey. But if it turns out to be Emily who thought of it, I hope the offended offspring will merely shake his or her head and say, "That's Dad," instead of being hurt or offended at Dad's having miscredited the "cow" insult.
Posted by Verai (Member # 7507) on :
Too bad my digital camera's battery is dead. I made a special christmas request and got it - my brother took a picture of Guybrush and the Sword Master sparring and captioned in big green letters, "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." He framed it for me and it sits behind me.
Ah, it's on his website I remember. When he gets off work I will ask him where it is exactly.
[ April 20, 2005, 08:54 PM: Message edited by: Verai ]
Posted by Verai (Member # 7507) on :
I think I speak for everyone when I say "LMFAO! ROFLCOPTER!!!!!111oneoneone"
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I love the cow insult. It survived throughout the rest of the MI series. Even when it made no sense, I still picked it whenever I could.
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
lol, that is great.
and I thought Xenocide was the first OSC stuff I read. Little did I know, the MI insults were the first OSC writing that I saw.
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