[196/365] baronx

[cosmolinguist]

Today some Lib Dem friends were talking about what geographical title we'd take if we got into the House of Lords (yes this is an extemely normal conversation for us).

People were trying out what their names would be, so Baron of here and Baroness of there. And I just said I wasn't sure where I'd be Baronx of. (miss_s_b ended up suggesting Jodrell Bank, and I live that idea as it's a real place I'm terribly fond of visiting but it was also a kind of mythic location when I was a teenager -- I think I first heard of it in Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and as with everything in that book, from Basingstoke to Betelgeuse, it seemed unearthly to me. Also the first thing Andrew and I did when I first visited him here is go with his mum and then-six-year-old niece on a trip to Jodrell Bank.)

Andrew told me "I like Baronx as a title," and I thought Aw, he's so nice and affirming.

"Because it sounds like a supervillain," he went on.

Ha! I should've expected something like that shouldn't I.

Comments

[machiavellijr]

Baronx (I've heard Barone as a gender-neutral title as well) Jodrell Bank would be an excellent title. The only other vaguely space-themed thing I can think of that's still British is the rocket test site at High Down, which also sounds like a good title. Though being Baronx High Down as a Lib Dem would probably get you lots of jokes about drug policy.

[cosmolinguist]

I don't mind if it's a space thing exactly, but Jodrell Bank is relatively local to me and I'm sentimental about it.

[sir_guinglain]

I dreamed I was a new member of the House of Lords last night. It is not the first time I have done so.

[cosmolinguist]

Sounds like an interesting dream.

[ivy]

Hahaha to "sounds like a supervillain". It does, a bit. Now I vaguely want for you to get into the House of Lords somehow.

[cosmolinguist]

I have friends who might, but I'd really have to be more ambitious to step up my profile enough to ever have a chance of it.

Before I crowdfunded my citizenship, my friends and I used to joke that getting into the House of Lords would be the easiest way of getting it, since peers who don't already have UK citizenship get it automatically.

[jack]

Yes, Baronx Jodrell Bank is THE BEST title

[cosmolinguist]

I love it so much. :D

[momentsmusicaux]

Baronx -- like Emperox in the John Scalzi books?

[cosmolinguist]

I've never read them, but, if it's used as a non-gendered title, yeah like htat. :)

[momentsmusicaux]

Ha, I was wondering whether one was a reference to the other and which way round it was if so!

Emperox is a non-gendered title in his Collapsing Empire series. I recommend it -- really enjoyed it.

[cosmolinguist]

I just made up Baronx along the same template as Latinx (for what used to be Latinos/Latinas) and Mx. as a title and stuff. X seems to be the gender-neutral non-binary letter, like X is what people have who don't have M or F on their passports (in countries that allow that).

[askygoneonfire]

I really enjoyed this vignette of your life