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Re: My Starcruiser
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:12:27 GMT
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Tom McDonald wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > As I recall, the Opoptians changed their eating habits by succumbing to a
> > fatal dose of food poisoning from ingesting too many nitrogen-based oxygen
> > compounds.  The last Opoptian's last words were spoken in the Hyper-Mayo
> > clinic, and went something to the effect of "can you give me more spamcake
> > plea...ack".
> You did know that the DOP was implicated in that, didn't you? And it wasn't
> the Opoptians, you silly, it was the Yrmbul that went ape-poo over spamcake
> and croaked. That's what you get when you have a collective-metabolism-based
> form of society. All it takes is one mouthful of slop by some stupid idiot and
> everyone ends up toast :P  The Opoptians now exclusively consume marmalade.

"Collective metabolism"?

ROTFLMDO!

> > You've forgotten the whole nanowave rights issue.  The topic here isn't the
> > reproduction rate of nanowave weapons (though that's entertaining to watch
> > in and of itself, and paying to watch nanowave devices reproduce is still
> > legal in some portions of the Inner Upsilon Vector)
> Ah yes, the red-light vector. Gotta be careful: a tractor beam nearly pulled
> me right into a "theatre" there once.

Yah, yah, we've heard your "tractor beam defense" before!  :-,

"That's right, your honor -- some Red Lectroid in front of me ran the red
light and pulled me after him with a tractor beam, causing me to side-swipe
the star buggy of the guy who owed me 15,000 credits.  Yes, your honor, it
did happen three times."

> I still don't believe the nanowave critters are sentient. IMO, it's all just a
> clever marketing scheme akin to pet rocks, gigapets and nimflitters.

Please take that back.  My gigapet is now in the corner crying.  He's so
*hard* to exercise when he pouts like that.

> when replying, I will be sending my apprentice, Darth Spamcake...

Good thing there's only two...  :-P

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com>
http://www.io.com/~jsproat
Darth Maul Lives



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