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Tickling the dragon's tail - or hacking a sample off it - is always a touchy business. "Al, I'll be fine in just the suit. Anything else is just going to slow me down and make it harder to get in and out cleanly. Really, it'll be fine." "No, no and no. I am not going to be calling the...

There were days Al hated being left-handed - and dealing with a broken arm was many of them. Cursing fluently, he swung a patterning scanner into place over the Lanthan Rabbit (as they'd taken to calling it over the past few days). Held in clamps on the work surface, it still gleamed dully, taunting...

The agent steamed into Mucho Mocha under full draft and made a beeline to the back tables. He walked up to the pair there and asked "Which one of you is Greg?" The battered veteran of more than a few conflicts looked up and said, "Who's asking, sonny?" Utterly unconcerned, the ag...

A few minutes later the light over the second airlock door began to blink. Al pushed a button on the desk console, allowing the outer door to open and admitting two agents lugging a large, obviously heavy Haliburton case between them. All business now and clad in a contamination suit with breathing ...

It was a quiet day at the engineering works. Al sat at the precision work bench, stripping, cleaning and reassembling an SU carburettor from a Rover V8. The air conditioning was on, keeping the air in the old industrial building fresh on this fine Summer morning, and the bright light coming in throu...

I recall Larry Niven mentioning having a wall full of the 'Known Space' timeline and inter-relationships of the major characters, maybe Heinlein too... I for one, appreciate the work. For trhose of us lucky enough to have a hardbound copy of the first edition of Heinlein's "The Past Through To...

Sgt. Howard wrote:
You are adorable, you know that?

Don't knock innocence, mate...it's nice to see some few humans still posess it...as oppposed to the rest of us.

jwhouk wrote:Over 5000. She was alive before the Kikai Caldera went boom back in 4354 BCE. That means she's over 6,300 years old.

Lily I knew was over 5K (and doesn't look a day over 3500...) it was Suzy I was referring to not having a definitive start date for. My bad - too many female pronouns.

Somewhere, i had the impression that Suzie was only a few hundred years old. I know what you mean, and we do know her partner (name escapes me at present) is MUCH older, but I don't think there's ever been a definitive statement on her age in canon. We do thave the hints on feeding on prisoners and...

Ow. Serious ow.

Good luck, and don;t overload the 'Burban too much. You might need some of that axle travel depending on what the roads are like (debris).

Got into the middle of a fire in west Texas once - think tinder dry brush all too damn high. Not entertaining. Be safe.

Al

AnotherFairportfan wrote:

oldmanmickey wrote:just two sweet girls

But if we don't see wings or fuzzy ears, they just not be very excited about the whole thing...

Or they've had plenty of...practice...and are getting better at the shape-holding under stress.

Either way, good for them.

Al

Vintage FORD (um, 3 cyl tractor ) Lucas Electrical Equipment... http://i473.photobucket.com/albums/rr96/DrFrankenBerk/Lucas_Volt_Reg.jpg Now, if I can only get the pistons out of the block, I can re-sleeve and re-ring it... Ah, the Dark Lord's forces are everywhere... :) Glad to hear you got the su...

Grumble, grumble...disgraceful abuse of a precision machine....indeed....needs a good talking to...grumble... dirt, gravel...indeed...

GOOD ON YOU, LAD! BRAVO!

Al

Making love to Tina, might, due to circumstance, be Group Sex by default.

huh.

Ya just hadda go there, didn't you? We've all been standing on the high moral ground, but nooooooo.....

Get OUT of my gutter - you're blocking the light.

Tongue firmly in cheek - Al

Much as the food chain is the food chain, I do have to wonder at the long term corrosion to the spirit from feeding off the condemned. Looking at it pragmatically it makes sense, but just as being a law enforcement officer weighs on the spirit after a while might this do the same? Both? That's got t...

In short, do it. I doubt anyone here is stiff-necked enough to give you issues if you and they disagree.

Al

I wonder how long it's going to take Stan to find a change of shorts?

Sgt. Howard wrote:

TazManiac wrote:Hah hah, the Thick-one plots...

As I once stated when I pour wet concrete into the grave.... the plot thickens...

A far too concrete example for my tastes....though it's one way to cement a friendship.

{deposits 2 bags of Sakrete into the pun jar}

Couple of things to try before you start ripping into this engine. There are cooling system pressure testers out there thatr can be used to check the integrity of the cooling system itself vis-a-vis the bad head gasket situation. This may be borrowable/rentable for cheap and would be well worth the ...

The roll-up door in the small building was much like any other on that back alley - miscellaneous, nondescript and nearly unnoticeable. The small plaque next to it labeled "Richer Engineering" was almost lost in the dust of the vehicles traveling up and down on their errands to the surroun...