Who would win in a fight...
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michaelm
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This actually brings up something that has bothered me ever since I first read the Covenant books - why did Donaldson pick a name like 'Kevin'? It kind of makes me not want to take him seriously.
Why when all the other names are original(ish), did he choose the name Kevin?
So...Berek, as I can't help but think of Rik Mayall's Kevin Turvey when I hear the name Kevin...
Why when all the other names are original(ish), did he choose the name Kevin?
So...Berek, as I can't help but think of Rik Mayall's Kevin Turvey when I hear the name Kevin...
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Kevin's not that bad a choice, when you consider the Ultimate Bad Guy is named Lord Foul. 
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Heh...michaelm wrote:This is true.aliantha wrote:Kevin's not that bad a choice, when you consider the Ultimate Bad Guy is named Lord Foul.
"There are those who call me......Tim"
But on topic...Kevin would destroy Berek. Simply annihilate. [sp?].
Remember, anyone, when Tyson knocked out Spinks in a minute and half in the biggest paying fight of all time [till that point]?
That's a long night till last call plus an after-hours party compared to what Kevin would do to Berek.
It's like thinking the first Superbowl winning team could do anything but curl up and beg for mercy against the last winning team.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Berek. He has great power and plenty of experience fighting... and he didn't blow up the world when things were not going his way.
Kevin may have the "knowledge", but what good would that be without experience to back it up? To re-write Vraith's analogy, it'd be like the first Super Bowl team playing a team of obsessive football fans who know all the plays and statistics but have never gone beyond playing catch with a football in a parking lot during a tail-gate party.
Kevin may have the "knowledge", but what good would that be without experience to back it up? To re-write Vraith's analogy, it'd be like the first Super Bowl team playing a team of obsessive football fans who know all the plays and statistics but have never gone beyond playing catch with a football in a parking lot during a tail-gate party.
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Well, since you've brought in a boxing analogy I'l bring in another one.Vraith wrote:Heh...michaelm wrote:This is true.aliantha wrote:Kevin's not that bad a choice, when you consider the Ultimate Bad Guy is named Lord Foul.
"There are those who call me......Tim"
But on topic...Kevin would destroy Berek. Simply annihilate. [sp?].
Remember, anyone, when Tyson knocked out Spinks in a minute and half in the biggest paying fight of all time [till that point]?
That's a long night till last call plus an after-hours party compared to what Kevin would do to Berek.
It's like thinking the first Superbowl winning team could do anything but curl up and beg for mercy against the last winning team.
Berek is Muhammad Ali, the old champ, not the hardest hitter of all time but smart and skillful, and with the benefit of experience.
Kevin is George Foreman, the hardest hitting champion of all time who knocks anyone who stands up to him off their pins.
I'd back Berek to win with a rope-a-dope strategy. And remember that Berek would have the Theomach in his corner.
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They'd probably be getting too Illearth-stoned to put on a good show.DrPaul wrote:On another matter that's been raised, I've always thought that "Lord Foul and the Ravers" sounds like the sort of name you'd give a punk rock band. I'd have samadhi Sheol on lead vocals, Lord Foul on guitar, turiya Herem on bass and moksha Jehannum on drums.