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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: Laz does fun stuff.
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:29:54 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- In article <1jiso7INNpj8@shelley.u.washington.edu>, lazuli@stein.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
- =I wrote:
- =>>Laz nods. "Um, I don't drink tea. Sorry. But I wouldn't mind visiting,
- =>>after I get my bearings."
-
- StM hears this, and summons Carl. Carl appears, holding in his hands a defunct
- disk drive. StM explains the situation, and Carl says "It was just a head
- crash, so it ought to work." He then proceeds to dismember the drive. He
- removes the spindle, carefully catching a few small bits of metal, and hands
- the latter to StM. StM carries them over to Laz, and says, "Well, I know these
- aren't *YOUR* bearings, but Carl said to give them to you in case they'll help."
- Only to discover that he's been beaten to the punch, as:
-
- =>"Perhaps I can be of assistance. Would these be what you were looking for?"
- =>
- =>Merlinvin holds out a palmful of polished, perfectly spherical stainless
- =>steel balls...
-
- =Laz, looking bemused, politely declines each, and turns to Thyra. "What *is*
- =this place?" he asks her, fixing on her as the one faintly familiar figure
- =here.
-
- "Well," StM explains, "it's a bar. But like Klahd and Xanth, it seems to be
- made mostly of puns."
-