There are 2 messages totalling 121 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Help with Cousins subfactions 2. Help with Knightie subfactions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:39:11 -0400 From: Brenda Bell <webwarren@e.......> Subject: Re: Help with Cousins subfactions At 00:20 6/18/2012, Greer wrote: >Sound like the Nitpickers Faction--who had a website there for a while, >though they don't seem to have got anywhere near working their way through >the whole series. That's usually a big job -- even for a series with as few eps as FK. (We had trivia questions on continuity errors in the original STAR TREK series for decades after its demise.) >Against that is the fact that I found the name in a list that was directly >associated with LaCroix-based factions. It was down in the small print >(unlike, say, the Light Cousins and NA, which were writ large under the main >"Cousins" header); but it was definitely in the LaCroix list. Hmm... then I might ask Libratsie if she knows anything about it. (Ratpackers -- cheese -- leaving holes and making tunnels... don't think *that's* the connection, but it's another direction to pursue.) >Truly obscure, I guess! Though in truth, if it ever made the main list, it should be in SOMEONE's archives... Brenda F. Bell webwarren@e....... 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It *does* define "The Brick" as a nickname for Nick "due to the fact that his boyish exuberance sometimes overwhelms his grasp of the obvious." This suggests that the B.R.I.C.K., as a faction, was created after 15 May 1996. However, the Affiliations FAQ does go on to list "Briquet" and "Briquette" as terms for followers of Nick (respectively male and female). The terms were apparently coined by Will Steeves. (Hi, Will!) There's even a quotation: "And for creating that particular epithet, I just created one for her particular affiliation: Briquets / Briquettes (as in "Charcoal Briquettes" :-), stolen, of course, from "Brick" as in "Nick the Brick" :-) )" It is only on later faction lists that the B.R.I.C.K. get listed. Although they don't appear on the short ones that only give the main factions, they turn up on quite a lot of moderate-sized lists (and, of course, on the long ones). In particular, The Forever Knight Faction List website describes the B.R.I.C.K. as "an elite faction of Nick fans; the name of which is a reference to his rather "brickish" nature". It then goes on to add, "Meaning, if you're American, his childlike exuberance sometimes prevents him from realizing the obvious. Or, if you're in the UK, you can probably take it to mean that you can depend on him in a crisis. Take your pick. ;)" (By the way, that last bit is derived straight from the old Affliations FAQ definition of Nick the Brick, which offered both the American and British interpretations of "brick".) Oh, and The Forever Knight Faction List associates the B.R.I.C.K. with Briques and Briquettes (note the difference in spelling for the male members). So that's what I know. Naturally, I'm curious whether this was simply a running Knightie joke or whether anyone actually claimed the affiliation. I'm pretty sure there was never a list, e-group, or website for them. Did members of the B.R.I.C.K. enjoy Nick's brickishness? Take pleasure in criticizing it? Make apologies for it? I'm basically asking for context--which is something you just don't get from a little list-definition. One more thing. The Forever Knight Faction List also includes the Brick-throwers faction, defined as "fans who support Nat's attempts to bring Nick to his senses". Now, when I was talking about the B.R.I.C.K. to NAT, she remembered getting hold of a rubber brick, and sometimes throwing it at the TV screen when Nick was being particularly brickish. That doesn't seem like quite the same as the faction described as "supporting Nat's attempts to bring Nick to his senses", but...it could be. Does anyone recall the Brick-throwers, and--if so--what exactly they were? Did other people ever toss rubber bricks? (Sounds like fun.) Greer gwatson2@r....... http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/ ------------------------------ End of FORKNI-L Digest - 18 Jun 2012 to 19 Jun 2012 (#2012-99) **************************************************************
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