The Archangel Syndrome (Page 3 of 10)

The Hawaiin islands were, IIRC, originally the Sandwich Islands.  Maybe they should be bought by Subway?

Perhaps Hawaii should build a subway under the volcanoes.

In my neverending quest for a new name for the Realm that doesn't suck, I chose not to use Colonies since it begs the question: Were they once colonies of the Imperium that broke away? (They weren't.) My latest is the Sovereign Stars. The adjective would be Sovereign (e.g.., Sovereign fleet, Sovereign worlds). The only "quirk" is that the prefix for ship names becomes SSS (e.g., SSS Almighty, a Sovereign destroyer).

I think I can die in peace now.
Dirk

"Free Stars" saves half the syllables in the battle cry.  Making the name "Free and Sovereign Stars" would allow this.

New naming contest. Earth in the distant future still suffers from the aftereffects of climate change in the form of stubbornly high temperatures, the result of the planet experiencing the beginnings of a runaway greenhouse effect in the early centuries of the 3rd millenium, which was only halted because Dr. Narky brought civilization to its knees with her faulty vaccine, causing the population to crash from 10B down to 1B. I had been calling this the Warming, but as Jack rightly pointed out, since the planet actually ceased "warming" long ago, it's the wrong term. I had considered calling it the Broiling (with Terrans nicknamed roast beef by other worlds), but that's too in-your-face, hence boring. I want a term (preferably only one or two words, perhaps an acronym) that people coin to describe "hot as hell", say 5-10 degrees hotter than today. Ideally, the term should also have a humorous element to it.

Here's an example: Apollo could feel the heat of the "Albuma" winds blowing, a word derived from the acronym ALBUMA, which means "a lightning bolt up my ass." Censored of course.  :-)

Hotter than Satan eating California Repears at the Big Bang! No idea what the acronym/short form would be. Sefcabb? Nah.
Or maybe just: Apollo could feel the heat of California Reapers stalking him in the Amazon.
Apollo wore heat-dissipating clothing to keep the heat of the California Reapers at bay.
Hot enough to fry a camel! Hefac. Could perhaps use it as a curse word. As Apollo stepped outside, he said, "Hefac!"
Hot enough to fry fish in a river! Heffir? Nope.

Whatever the final word is, I plan to use it a few times without explaining what it is until later, and it therefore should be cool/funny enough to be worth the wait for the reader.

Etc.

Thanks
Dirk

No, the idea is they chose something really hot to express/exaggerate what the heat feels like. Although now that you asked the question the way you did, clearly California Reapers is not good choice. If my readers were confused about the Realm being a republic that one day may be led by a king from one of its member systems, just imagine the head scratching when vegetables begin stalking Apollo. LoL

Thank you for the link. I don't recall which pope started the process, but the Vatican apparently wants every diocese to have an exorcist. One of the things they do is bless buildings, which is considered a form of exorcism, so it's not usually as exciting as little girls throwing up pea soup.

First things first. I assume you mean 5-10 degrees Centigrade. But is it Fahrenheit?
How about hot as Fahrenheit Hell? Fahrenhell.

Fahrenhot? Hotheit?

Or Hellheit? It's Hellheit out there!

And to complete the thought - Centihell... too close to Sent-to-hell?
Or Helligrade.

The word hellacious is close to what you want and is an actual word.

Found these online. They're not usable, but they are funny.

Hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Hotter than a hen laying hard-boiled eggs.
Hotter than a cow giving evaporated milk.
Hotter than Satan's mix tape.
Southern women don't sweat - they glisten.

I narrowed it down to:
The Egg Poacher
The Sweltering
The Simmering
The Bitch-In-Heat

Any other forms of cooking I missed in the previous post?

The best one is The Sweltering. To swelter is common, which is good. Perhaps modifying that somewhat:

The Swelter Smack
The Swelter Belter
The Swelter Smelter