(September 6, 2017 at 7:21 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(September 6, 2017 at 3:03 pm)Cyberman Wrote: "Mickey"?
Sort of like a younger Trump referring to Reagan as "Ronnie" to emphasize his own fictional significance and closeness to the powerful.
It's the same sort of inappropriate familiarity that we get in situations like the Gulf Wars. Bush and Blair were referred to in the media by their titles, but Saddam Hussein was always called by his first name, to reinforce a pecking order. To illustrate, imagine if the Iraq Times ran reports such as "Yesterday, the city was bombed by George and Tony".
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
