> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:10:11PM -0600, Doug Evans wrote:
> As for the start of the war, it was obviously NSL agent provocateurs
How you know you're at war with:
The NAC: their ambassador passes you a polite note over tea.
The FSE: your mistress tells you and reveals that she's been working for them
all along (as you leave, so as not to spoil the evening).
The ESU: a massive force grinds over the border. We're not quite sure how they
manage to grind when it's a force of starships, but somehow they do.
The NSL: all of a sudden your hi-fi will only play Bavarian drinking
songs.
> How you know you're at war with:
The Islamic Federation: You are.
The Alarishi Empire: they take away your discounts and add a surcharge.
The OU: the head of your intelligence agency dies from being bitten in a
very sensitive area by a genetically engineered Australian spider.
Laserlight said:
> The OU: the head of your intelligence agency dies from being bitten in
ITYM "perfectly natural Australian spider".
ITYM
Sorry, mate, but I have no idea what this means.
However, I'm fairly certain the genetic manupulation was to get it to
select just the intel man, not to make it more lethal. ;->=
The_Beast
I Think You Mean (?)
The genetic manipulation was just to make them a bit less squishy...
It's rather more difficult to accidentally step on a 30-pound spider.
> ITYM
> I Think You Mean (?)
D'oh! I kept making it verbose: I Think THAT You Mean... I Think WHAT You
Mean...
> The genetic manipulation was just to make them a bit less squishy...
*ahem* 30-pound spiders are difficult to smuggle into secure areas, let
alone a 'very sensitive area'. Not impossible, but...
The_Beast
And how would you know, may I ask? <g>
> *ahem* 30-pound spiders are difficult to smuggle into secure areas,
> And how would you know, may I ask? <g>
Fortunately, when backed into a corner, I can always depend on 'this is
just too off topic...' ;->=
However, I will say some of the cockroaches that have turned up in this
supposedly secure machine room make give the impression of approaching 30
pounds.
Reminds to look for the HUGE plastic 'roaches I have home somewhere to match
my piles of black spiders and ants for some table top antics.
The_Beast
I rember the roaches at Fort Benning, Georgia. They had the mice trained.
Michael Brown
[quoted original message omitted]
Benning had nothing on Ft. Polk, LA. We used to use the roaches there as
OPFOR.
> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:12:50 -0800
> On 2/14/04 12:12 AM, "Michael Brown" <mwbrown@sonic.net> wrote:
> I rember the roaches at Fort Benning, Georgia. They had the mice
I bet the bugs at Ft. Sill would have given them a run for their money.
Vast hordes of roaches about the size of a pack of smokes -- hordes 10'
thick running from one WW2 barrack to another...but only at night.
Damo
> Laserlight wrote:
Yup, but this is just to prevent him reporting a sudden increase of OU buoys
all over the place.
> >The genetic manipulation was just to make them a bit less squishy...
You mean they miniaturised them?
> At 12:22 AM +1100 15/2/2004, Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:
Those were the babies on an outing...independent sorts that they are