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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. ([personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2019-07-15 08:00 pm (UTC)
machiavellijr: Tragedy and comedy masks with crossed cutlasses (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2019-07-15 08:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2019-07-16 06:20 am (UTC)
ivy: Two strands of ivy against a red wall (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2019-07-16 08:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jack
Yes, Baronx Jodrell Bank is THE BEST title

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Date: 2019-07-17 02:28 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] momentsmusicaux
Baronx -- like Emperox in the John Scalzi books?

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Date: 2019-07-17 03:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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.

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Date: 2019-07-22 01:23 pm (UTC)
askygoneonfire: Red and orange sunset over Hove (Default)
From: [personal profile] askygoneonfire
I really enjoyed this vignette of your life

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