An inflight message we've been waiting for

[jojosdad]

http://www.barry.fireflyinternet.co.uk/fun/files/pilot.htm

 

[P95Carry]

That is a good listen!!

It has tho been around quite some time and probably many folks have heard it.

 

[Ironworker]

I think someone's over estimating the wound channel potential of .22LR, but still...

 

[HankB]

Still good for a chuckle . . .

(Hey Ironworker . . . I saw your .sig . . . I'd be willing to bet more than a couple of bucks that most THR-ers, even those who consider themselves sci-fi fans, have no idea what a zwilnik is. )

 

[P95Carry]

even those who consider themselves sci-fi fans, have no idea what a zwilnik is

I sure don't! Thing is - do they have guns!?

 

[Ironworker]

[hijack]Zwilniks are one thing, but it's the Eich you need to worry about. This is why members of Civilization are armed. (Erisians are out of the question until you get your Lens, and then the scale of armaments get a little more...interesting.)[/hijack]

 

[HankB]

[continued hijack]

I sure don't! Thing is - do they have guns!?

Actually, they started off with Lewistons, but some have gotten their hands on some of the Patrol's DeLameters . . . when using them, Rule 4 becomes paramount, as things like buildings beyond your target tend to . . . disappear. [/continued hijack]

 

[TheEgg]

The ones that push Thionite are the worst of the worst.

 

[NavajoNPaleFace]

zwilniks are small potatoes compared to Machaphites that mined Priotonium for the Forbidden Colony.

They eliminated their competition through the use of mystoprotology and mind altering corbialation.

The result was a hoetalization of Lateragisms that no other geptelian society will ever see again.

 

[Ironworker]

So much for there being a dearth of SF readers on this board, classic or otherwise...Now all we need is a few gratuitous Jack Vance or Alfred Bester quotes. (Speaking of which, a powergun would be a nifty thing to have around. I'd like to know how it'd work against a dark matter creature, but that's another thread entirely.)

 

[HankB]

Actually, I wouldn't mind one of the pistols used by the settlers of Pyrrus . . . with X-Plosive bullets of course. (OK, so I'm mixing the Deathworld trilogy with the Skylark books, but what the heck . . . at least I'm not getting drawn into a serious argument about who kicks alien heinie better, Picard or Han Solo . . . )

And as for SF quotes, my favorite probably comes from Theodore Sturgeon: "Ninety five percent of everything is crap."