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- From: ablanch@physics.su.OZ.AU (Shonias)
- Subject: Re: And now, for something completely different.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.101511.21343@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
- References: <1jo50hINNi1n@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1jmsucINNt4t@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1jnlttINNct0@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:15:11 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <1jnlttINNct0@shelley.u.washington.edu> lazuli@byron.u.washington.edu (Fred Sloniker) writes:
- >[Deleted for the sake of bandwidth (I wonder if he is related to Auld Angsine)]
- >>"Ummmm, I'm Shonias, is there anything in particular you like to drink?"
- >>-=> Can-ingest-anyorganic. Selfmobileorganic-preferred-dueto-more useful/
- >>survival-favourable genecodes. Selfimmobile/photosyntheticorganic genecodes
- >>lesser-utility but chemical-content-life-sustaining when selfmobileorganic
- >>unavailable. <=-
-
- Shonias, having basic telepathic powers, gets most of the transmitted message.
- Not all of it has much meaning to her, but she is trying...
- "Now if inactivity upsets your captors, presumably being nice to people
- would upset them even more? Having a good time seems to me to be nice
- revenge... but then I know very little about your own motivations..."
-
- Shonias listens to Laz...
-
- >Laz watches, and 'listens', to the byplay curiously. "Self-immobile..." he
- >mutters, trying to puzzle out the meaning, then ahs. "Um, I don't think
- >they sell live animals here, but I think we can get you a salad."
- >
- >-=> "Salad?" <=-
- >
- >"Um, self-immobile photo-synthetic organics, cut into small pieces to aid
- >our digestive systems. Possibly with a flavor-enhancing spice coating.
- >How about it, Mike? Do we have a salad?"
-
- Shonias quickly calls Mike for a salad and pays for it, bringing it back
- to ... "Ummmm, is there some name that we can call you by? Or have you
- told us already and I have missed it?"
-
- Shonias
-
- --
- **********************************
- I could have a nervous breakdown,
- But I don't believe in shrinks.
- I should be drunker than a monkey,
- But I don't like to drink.
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-